Hire cars are the awkward ones. A locking wheel nut key is exactly the sort of thing that goes missing between one renter and the next, and nobody notices until a tyre goes down and the boot turns out to contain a warning triangle and nothing else. The driver has no relationship with the car, no paperwork and often no idea whether it even has locking nuts until they are standing next to it.
We deal with this regularly around the hotels here. Extraction does not require the key: a hardened socket is driven over the nut, grips as it turns and brings it out, with the alloy shielded throughout. Then a plain nut goes back in its place and the tyre job carries on. It is worth telling the hire company afterwards so the car is not passed on with a mismatched set, but that is a phone call for the morning rather than a reason to be stuck outside a hotel at midnight.
Over-tightening is the other half of the problem, and it is nearly always somebody else's fault. We bring extraction kits designed for exactly that failure to Cleveland Square or wherever you have stopped, get the nut out with the alloy protected, and carry on with the tyre work you actually rang about. School run in Westbourne Grove or 1am in Inverness Terrace, we answer the same. Christmas Day in Queensway, any day in Lancaster Gate: the line is open.
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Between the hotels and the mansion blocks, Bayswater has an unusually high proportion of cars whose driver did not buy them and has never opened the boot floor. A locking nut with no key is the natural consequence. It stops being a problem the moment somebody arrives with the right socket, and since the car is not going anywhere anyway, the sensible place to sort it is exactly where it is parked.
A visitor near Lancaster Gate found no locking key anywhere in the car. The nut was extracted and a standard one fitted so the tyre could be changed.
The key supplied with a rental off Queensway fitted nothing on the car. Extraction took a few minutes and the job went ahead.
An owner near Cleveland Square had lost the key years earlier. All four nuts were swapped for plain ones in a single visit.
We remove the nut without it. A hardened extraction socket grips the outside of the nut and turns it out, and the wheel comes off in the next few minutes.
Yes, afterwards. They will want to know a nut was replaced, but it is a conversation for the morning rather than a reason to wait outside a hotel.
No. The face is shielded and the tool works on the nut. Careful set-up is what protects the finish rather than speed.
Yes, provided the car is parked safely. Bays around Porchester Road and Inverness Terrace are worked in regularly, day and night.
A plain nut matching the others, or a fresh locking set with keys if the car is yours and you want the security back.
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