Where does the key actually live? In the boot well beside the jack, in a glovebox, in a small pouch tucked into a door bin, or in a kitchen drawer because someone lifted it out to make room years ago. It is one of those objects that only really exists at the moment you need it, and that moment is never a convenient one.
Round here the awkward part is what follows. The conventional answer is booking the car in somewhere, and with the crossings backing up at the wrong time of day even a short run towards Feltham or Sunbury-on-Thames swallows a morning. Ours is simpler: we come to the driveway. The extractor grips the outer body of the nut and unscrews it whole, with no key, no heat and no mark left on the wheel. An ordinary nut goes back on afterwards, so the next time a wheel has to come off it is a five minute job rather than a phone call.
It is worth saying that this is not an unusual call. We come out with the extraction kits to Hampton Court, Hampton Village or anywhere in between, get the nut off where the car is standing with the alloy protected, and then deal with the tyre itself. Midnight in Nurserylands, midday in Fulwell, the same call either way. School run in Fulwell or 1am in Nurserylands, we answer the same.
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One of the genuine advantages of this part of Greater London is that most homes have somewhere off the road to leave a car, which makes a driveway visit straightforward. Given how long a trip across towards Sunbury-on-Thames and back can take on a busy day, having the work done outside your own house is simply the more sensible use of the morning.
The previous owner had left the key in the vehicle they part exchanged, which nobody noticed for eighteen months. It only mattered when a tyre needed changing. All four nuts came off in one visit and the car left with a normal set on it.
Somebody had already had a go with an impact gun and the wrong adaptor, leaving the pattern rounded away to nothing. That version takes longer but ends the same. The nut came off, the alloy was untouched, and the wheel came away without a fight.
Corrosion rather than a missing key. The car had sat on a driveway near Hampton Wick through a wet winter and the nut had effectively bonded to the stud. We took our time with it, worked it loose, and cleaned the thread up before anything went back on.
Yes, and it is one of the more common reasons people ring us. The tool works on the nut itself, so whether the key is lost, broken or never existed makes no difference.
It does. There is little point releasing a nut and leaving you with the original problem, so whatever the wheel was needed for happens while we are there.
If the key has gone, then yes, all four nuts on that wheel position get replaced, because keeping locking nuts you cannot open would be pointless.
Not long. A single stubborn nut is usually a matter of minutes, and even a full set of four is well inside an hour.
That is where most of these jobs happen locally, and it is easier for everyone. Off street space means we can lay tools out properly and take our time getting it right.
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