Locking wheel nut keys disappear when cars change hands. The dealer keeps it, or it lives in a boot compartment nobody ever empties, and the loss only surfaces years later when somebody actually needs a wheel off. Usually that somebody is an MOT tester, a tyre fitter, or you at the kerb holding a spare you have no way of using. Our extraction tools draw the nut off without touching the alloy face, and a replacement goes on before we leave so this never becomes your problem twice.
You do not think about the locking nut until the moment it stops you. We carry specialist removal kits for exactly that and extract the nut where the car is standing, on a driveway in South End Green or on Rosslyn Hill, with the alloy protected while we work. Tight in South End Green, easy in Gospel Oak: neither stops the job. Level in Belsize Park, sloping in Swiss Cottage: we set the car straight first.
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Getting a car down Rosslyn Hill and across to a garage for one seized nut is an absurd amount of effort for a small job. We would sooner turn up outside your house in the Village or wherever you are parked near Belsize Park, deal with the nut, and leave the car exactly where it was.
A car bought two years earlier turned out to have no key anywhere in it. The owner had never needed one until a tyre needed changing. Fifteen minutes on the driveway sorted what a garage would have wanted the car all day for.
Road salt had welded the nut to the stud on a car parked near Gospel Oak all winter. Not a lost key at all, just corrosion, but no socket on earth was shifting it. The extractor bit deep enough to break it loose without damaging the hub.
A tester had already refused to remove the wheels and the retest was booked for the afternoon. We met the car outside the garage, released all four nuts, left ordinary ones in place, and the retest went ahead as planned.
The tool bites into the outer collar of the nut and turns it by force rather than by matching its pattern. It is designed for precisely this and it does not need the original key to exist.
Not for us. We chock it and work with the car secured. Around here almost every job happens on some sort of gradient, so it is normal rather than exceptional.
Whatever it takes. If one is chewed we can do only that one, but if the key is gone entirely then all four have to change, otherwise you are stuck again next time.
Compare it with a day without the car while a garage does the same work. Most people decide it is, particularly when the alternative is also a tow.
Always, before anything is touched. You can pay by card or contactless on the spot when it is done.
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