One nut on each wheel is not like the other three. It carries a pattern instead of a hexagon and there is a matching key somewhere, which on a car that has been through a lease company, a dealer and two private owners often means nowhere at all. Add a pattern rounded off by an over-enthusiastic air gun and the wheel is effectively bolted on permanently. Extraction sockets take those off by gripping the nut itself, without marking the alloy, and a replacement goes on so it cannot recur. It happens at the kerb on Gray's Inn Road, in an office car park, or wherever the car spends its working day, and it takes one visit.
No key, no wheel, no tyre change. That is the whole of the problem, and it turns up in WC1V more often than you would think: keys lost with a previous owner, keys rounded off by a socket that did not quite fit, nuts done up by an impact wrench and never touched since. Whether it is Red Lion Square in rush hour or Chancery Lane at midnight, we answer. On Chancery Lane, day or night, Gray's Inn Road included, arrival across WC1V runs 30 to 60 minutes. The WC1V postcode and a street in Chancery Lane: that is enough.
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Cars in Holborn spend most of their lives parked, and a locking nut only reveals itself when something else needs doing. Since the bays along Theobalds Road and Gray's Inn Road are metered or permit and full by mid-morning, moving the car to solve the problem is the worst available idea. Sorting it in the bay, at an hour you pick, is the only sensible one.
Fleet cars pass through so many hands that the key ends up in a drawer in an office nobody uses any more. Nobody finds out until a tyre needs changing. The nut is taken off on its own terms and a fresh set with a key goes on before the fitter leaves.
A booked service stalled because a wheel would not come off. Rather than move the car anywhere, we met it where it was parked, freed all four and let the garage get on with what it had been booked for. A day of predicted disruption turned into part of an afternoon.
A driver with a slow puncture and a locking nut nobody could budge. Both were dealt with in one stop: nut off first, then the tyre off the rim, repaired and balanced, with a new nut going on as the wheel went back.
Yes, and most jobs here are exactly that. What we need is enough room to open a door and get a jack under the sill, so describe how tight the space is when you ring.
It works very well. Leave word with somebody, give us the registration and the bay, and the wheel is off and back on while you carry on upstairs. The card payment happens when you come down.
No. If you still had it we would use it, but the point of the extraction kit is that it works without one. Bringing us a snapped key or an empty case is fine too.
Rarely. Nobody is stranded by a locking nut, they are blocked by it. So it gets booked to suit the car's day rather than scrambled, unless the car is stuck somewhere it cannot remain.
Enough to kneel and swing a bar, which is less than most people assume. Around Chancery Lane and the tighter streets we set up on the pavement side wherever we can, so nobody is working with traffic at their elbow.
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