What do you do when the key itself is the thing that has broken? It happens more often than people expect. The thin socket that slips over the locking nut splits or strips its pattern, and from that moment the wheel is held on by something nothing in the boot will shift.
Ours will shift it. Extraction sockets take hold of a nut that has lost its shape, or one that corrosion has fused to the stud, and wind it off without touching the alloy. Having that done at your own address matters in N6, because so many streets around the Village lie on a slope, and a car resting on a jack on a gradient is no place to be putting weight on a long bar. We set up properly, get the nut off, and leave a replacement behind so the next wheel change is a short job rather than another phone call.
The advice you will find online is to hammer an undersized socket on and lean on it. Sometimes it works. Often it rounds the nut properly, marks the alloy, and leaves a fitter with a harder job than the one that existed before. Whether it is Archway in rush hour or Hampstead Lane at midnight, we answer. On Hampstead Lane, day or night, Archway included, arrival across N6 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Highgate turns a stuck wheel nut into a bigger problem than it ought to be. The lanes off Hampstead Lane and the streets climbing towards the Village are narrow, parked solid and rarely level, so there is neither the room nor the flat ground to wrestle a seized nut yourself. Doing it at your address with the right tools removes the risk from the job.
Cars change hands and the key stays in somebody's drawer. It only becomes a problem at the worst possible moment, generally when a tyre needs swapping. Our tools act on the nut and not on the key, so the car stays where it is, and a fresh locking set goes on before we leave.
Damp, grit and a few winters weld the nut and the stud into a single piece. Warming it and letting a penetrant do some of the work usually breaks that bond. A car up on Highgate West Hill had all four seized like that and every one came away without marking a wheel.
A test fails, the retest is booked, and then the garage discovers it cannot get the wheel off to finish anything. That is a stalled car rather than a broken one. We go to wherever it is standing, free the nut and hand it back ready to go, which beats arranging recovery.
It is precisely why this is better done by somebody who does it daily. Wheels get chocked and the spot gets chosen carefully, and where the gradient near Fitzroy Park is severe we will ask you to roll forward a few yards to level ground before anything is lifted.
Yes, a new set with its own key to keep wherever you will actually find it again. Whatever happened to the original stops mattering from that point on.
The fitting van is an ordinary size and copes with the sort of streets people worry about around Dartmouth Park and the Village. Where access really is impossible we will say so on the phone and agree a spot a short walk from the car.
Not usually. Most of these calls are people trying to clear the way for something else: a service, a tyre swap, a wheel that has to come off for a repair. It gets booked as work rather than scrambled as a callout, unless the car is genuinely stranded.
A straightforward one takes minutes. A badly rounded or heavily corroded one takes longer, because it is worked off carefully rather than forced. All four wheels still sit comfortably within a single visit.
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