This is the calm job on the list. No hazard lights, no verge, nobody standing behind a barrier.
It tends to surface at the wrong moment: a tyre goes down, the spare comes out and the key is nowhere to be found. It does not have to be handled that way. If you already know the key is missing, or that it slips on one of the four, it is far better dealt with as a booked visit on a driveway in Claygate or Thames Ditton than in the dark on the A244 with a flat tyre waiting for it.
The removal itself is mechanical and quick. An extractor of the correct size is driven onto the nut, which is then backed out under steady force. The damaged nut is scrapped and a full replacement set fitted and torqued properly. On the larger alloys common here, protecting the wheel face while that happens is the part that takes care, and it is the part a lot of workshops would rather not take on.
It is worth saying that this is not an unusual call. We come out with the extraction kits to Thames Ditton, Hinchley Wood or anywhere in between, get the nut off where the car is standing with the alloy protected, and then deal with the tyre itself. The wheel comes off in Hinchley Wood, not on a ramp in Leatherhead. Stock for Weston Green, stock for Oxshott, stock for anything on the A3.
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Around Esher this is nearly always driveway work: a car that arrived without its key, a key worn out on a large alloy, or nuts that have seized after a winter parked outside. Because it is planned rather than urgent, we book it for a time that suits, bring the extractor sizes for your make, protect the wheel and hand the car back correctly torqued.
A car delivered to a house in Oxshott arrived without its locking key, which nobody noticed until a service was booked. All four nuts were removed on the drive and replaced with a new keyed set, and the key went into the service book rather than the boot.
The key on a large SUV at Hinchley Wood had worn its splines and would no longer grip anything. The nut sat deep in a recessed hole, so the wheel face was masked and protected before the extractor went on, and the alloy came through unmarked.
A car kept on a driveway near Weston Green had a locking nut whose outer collar had rusted to the inner. The key spun freely and achieved nothing at all. The extractor bit into the collar and the nut came away in one piece.
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Yes. The key makes the job faster but is not required. A reverse threaded extractor grips the outside of the nut and unwinds it, and we carry the range of sizes needed because the nut patterns differ from one manufacturer to the next.
It is small and it is managed. The wheel face is masked and protected and the tool works on the nut rather than the wheel. Where a nut is very deeply recessed we look first and tell you honestly what the access is like before anything starts.
Whichever you would rather have. A new locking set with its own key keeps the deterrent; plain nuts remove any possibility of this happening again. We fit a complete matching set either way, torqued to the correct figure for the car.
It is fairly common. Between the liability on a customer's alloy, the need for the right extractor set and the time it can take, plenty of workshops decline. We carry the tools and do the job regularly, which is a very different starting position.
No. It is done where the car is parked, at home or at work, and a single nut is usually a few minutes. A complete set with new nuts fitted and torqued comes in comfortably under an hour from the moment we arrive.
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