People assume a missing locking key means a long job and a big bill. In practice, extraction adds a few minutes to a visit. The socket goes on, the nut comes out, a replacement goes on, and the tyre work you actually rang about proceeds as normal. It is closer to a slightly awkward wheel change than to a specialist operation, and it certainly does not need the car to go anywhere.
What can add time is the state of the nut. One that has also seized onto the stud after years of road salt takes patience rather than force, and doing that properly on a slope needs the car chocked and supported first. The streets climbing off the main roads around here are steep enough for that to matter. Either way it happens at your kerb, everything goes back torqued to the manufacturer's figure, and you get a plain nut or a fresh locking set depending on what you would rather have.
Salt is what does most of them in. Cars parked out on the road, on Battersea Park Road included, get the worst of it. We do that where the car stands in SW11, then fit a standard or replacement nut so the next wheel-off is a normal job. Which street in the Queenstown Road area, which way the car sits in Clapham Junction, and we are set. Boxed in on a Clapham Junction terrace or wide open in Shaftesbury Estate, say which on the phone. A SW11 address in Shaftesbury Estate and one in Lavender Hill are the same round.
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Around SW11 the practical worry with any extra job is the parking, because a resident bay off Battersea Park Road is not something you give up lightly and getting it back is worse. A locking nut adds minutes to a visit rather than requiring a trip anywhere. Doing it at the kerb, with the car chocked properly on whatever gradient it happens to be sitting on, keeps the whole thing to one stop.
A missing key on a car near Battersea Park added about five minutes to the visit. Nut out, replacement in, tyre changed.
A nut on Lavender Hill was both keyless and corroded on. That took longer, but it came out without damaging the stud.
An owner near Clapham Junction had all four changed to plain nuts while the van was there for a tyre.
Usually a few minutes on top of the tyre job. A seized one takes longer because it needs patience rather than force, but it is still the same visit.
No. It is part of the visit, which is the point of a mobile fitter. The car does not move and nothing has to be booked twice.
Yes, once the car is chocked and supported properly. The streets off Lavender Hill are steep enough that this preparation matters.
The wheel face is shielded and the socket works on the nut itself. Snatching at it is what damages wheels, so we work steadily instead.
A plain nut matching the rest, or a fresh locking set with keys that work, torqued to the manufacturer's figure before we leave.
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