Nothing about this is urgent, but it is one of the more common calls we get from around Hanwell, mostly from people who have just bought a used car.
Without it, no wheel comes off. Not for a tyre, not for brakes, and not for an MOT retest. The nut has to be extracted instead, which means driving a reverse spiral socket onto it and winding it out with the alloy face protected. It is careful work rather than heavy work, and it happens wherever the car is parked, including a permit bay with cars either side of it.
Afterwards you choose what goes back on. Plain nuts, so the problem never returns, or a fresh locking set with keys that have not been anywhere near an impact gun.
The worst time to find out the key has gone is at the roadside with a flat. Stopped on the A40, a spare in the boot and one nut that will not turn is about as unhelpful as a car gets. Blocked drive in Norwood Green? Open kerb in West Ealing? Either works. Which street in Boston Manor, which way the car sits in Brent Valley, and we are set.
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Around Hanwell this comes up most often on a car that has recently changed hands, or on the day a tyre goes down and the boot turns out to contain everything except the key. It is a booked, calm job at your address, not a recovery. The nut is destroyed on purpose, the alloy is protected while it happens, and whatever goes back on is tightened to the manufacturer's figure.
A car bought from a trader in west London came with one key for the doors and nothing at all for the wheels. The buyer only found out at the first tyre change. All four locking nuts came off in one visit on the street outside the house.
A test station could not remove a wheel to inspect a brake and could not proceed with the test. We extracted the nut at the owner's address that same week and fitted a standard replacement, and the retest went ahead without argument.
A key on a car near West Ealing had been chewed by an impact gun during an earlier tyre fitting. It looked fine and gripped nothing at all. The nut was extracted, and the replacements went back on with a torque wrench instead.
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Boot floor, spare wheel well, glovebox, the tray under a seat, and the plastic wallet with the handbook. If it is in none of those, it went home with the previous owner, and extraction is the practical answer.
Yes, as long as there is room to get alongside the wheel and swing a bar. If the car is boxed in tight we may ask to move it a few feet first, but it does not need to go anywhere near a workshop for this.
They do deter opportunist wheel theft, so on smart alloys plenty of owners keep them. If you go that way, insist nobody ever puts a gun on the key and keep a note of the code. If you would rather be rid of them, plain nuts are fine.
The nut is destroyed by the process, which is why a replacement goes on afterwards. The wheel should come through untouched: the socket grips the nut, the face is guarded, and the job is done at a speed that allows for care.
Usually under an hour for a full set once we are set up, longer if any are seized or if the collars spin freely. If we are fitting a tyre for you as well, both things happen in the same visit rather than two separate ones.
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