Where is your locking wheel nut key at this moment? Hardly anybody can answer that, which does not matter in the slightest until the day it does. The three occasions it turns into a problem are an MOT, a tyre swap and a puncture, and not one of them can go ahead without it. We take the nut off wherever the car is standing, on a drive in Birchwood or a workplace bay along the A1001, and put a replacement on the stud so nothing is sealed to the car permanently.
Salt, weather and over-tightening are what usually do it. A locking nut that went on fine three winters ago now sits seized on a car parked on St Albans Road, the key will not bite, and the wheel is not coming off for anybody. The Birchwood phone and the Roe Green phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Roe Green, midday in Oxlease, the same call either way.
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We run out into Hertfordshire from a North London base rather than working from a yard in the town, so we ask what is on the car when you ring and bring the right replacement nuts with us. Confirm a window and a postcode and the visit is built around where you actually are, whether that is a driveway or the far corner of a car park.
The previous owner had no idea where it was either. Rather than send the buyer chasing a code around dealerships, we cleared all four nuts at their address in Roe Green and left an ordinary set on the car.
Cheap keys shear when a nut is tight, and this one had broken with part of it still in the socket. We picked out the remains and used an extractor on the nut proper, then checked the other three so it would not repeat.
This one was an emergency, unusually. Deflated rear, no way to remove the wheel, nobody about to help. Nut out, tyre off, repair done, all in the same stop.
It is one way of doing it and it is a poor way. Grinding means heat close to the alloy and metal dust everywhere. An extraction socket turns the nut off the stud instead, which leaves the wheel and the thread as they were.
It is a hardened socket cut with a reverse spiral inside. Driven onto the damaged nut it digs in as it turns, so the tighter the nut resists, the harder the tool grips. That is why it works on nuts with no pattern left at all.
Honestly, for most cars, no. They stop very few thefts and cause a great many wasted mornings. If you have wheels genuinely worth protecting we will refit a locking set, but we will not push it on you.
Yes, and most of them are. Pick a time when the car will be sitting somewhere for half an hour and we will come to it. There is no reason to lose a working day over it.
All of it, from Old Hatfield through South Hatfield and Oxlease, and out towards Welwyn Garden City and Potters Bar when the vehicle has ended up over there.
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