A seized or rounded locking nut is not automatically a garage job, and it is certainly no reason to have a car hauled away on a recovery. It is simply a wheel that will not come off, and that can be dealt with in a residents' bay behind New Kent Road as well as it can under a ramp. Which matters more here than in most places, because surrendering a parking space in SE1 and getting one back later are two very different propositions.
The causes are always the same short list. The adaptor left with the previous keeper. It is in a flat that has since been packed into boxes. Or somebody hammered an approximate socket over the top of it, flattened the pattern inside, and handed the keys back saying nothing. We use extractors that grip the outer shell instead of the pattern, wind the nut off without scarring the wheel, and leave a working one in its place. Very often the tyre is not the issue at all. It is next week's MOT, or a spare that needs to go on, held up behind a nut nobody can shift.
Locking nuts exist to stop somebody stealing the wheels, and mostly they do. We extract seized, rusted and rounded nuts where the car stands in SE1 and fit standard or replacement nuts afterwards, so the security still exists but the car is not holding you hostage. Old tyres leave Elephant and Castle, Walworth and SE1 with us, every time. You watch it happen in Newington, or at the kerb in the Heygate area. A SE1 address in the London Road area and one in New Kent Road are the same round.
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Between the estates and the older terraces, almost nobody around Newington has off-street parking, so a car that cannot have its wheels removed is a car stuck in a bay it may not get back. Sorting the nut in place is far less trouble than trying to move the vehicle first.
A hatchback in Walworth booked in for its MOT, with the tester wanting the wheels off to see the brakes. One nut on each corner refused to move and no adaptor existed. All four came out on the street where the car was parked, and plain nuts went on in their place.
A driver with a flat rear, a full size spare, a jack, and absolutely no way of getting the wheel free. They had never checked whether the adaptor was in the car. We got the locking nut out, the spare went on, and the punctured tyre came away with us for repair.
A car wedged into a permit space near the Heygate area with barely a door's width either side. There was no question of moving it anywhere. We worked from the pavement side, extracted the offending nut and refitted, without the vehicle shifting an inch.
Wherever it already is, provided there is access to the wheel and a door somebody can open. Kerbside, in a permit bay, on an estate road or in an underground space are all normal for us.
Usually well under an hour for a single nut, sometimes a good deal less. Four of them on the same car does not take four times as long, since the tools are already out.
People try, generally with a hammered-on socket, and it often ends with a chewed nut and a scarred wheel. The extractors are not expensive to hire, but the skill is knowing when to stop and apply heat instead of force.
Because a lot of workshops do not keep a full extractor set and are wary of damaging alloys. It is a specific tool and a specific technique rather than anything clever.
Only the ones we have removed. If a single nut was the problem, a single replacement goes on. Plenty of drivers ask us to take the lot off at once so the question never comes up again.
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