Bought the car used and no locking key came with it? That is a big club to belong to, and members usually discover their membership at the worst possible moment: a fitter crouched beside a wheel shaking his head, or a soft tyre on a morning that had no slack in it. The nut is not the obstacle people imagine. An extractor is driven onto it, it comes back out cold, the alloy face is left alone, and an ordinary nut goes on in its place. Far better to sort that on a quiet afternoon in Lampton than on the day the wheel actually has to come off.
The advice you will find online is to hammer an undersized socket on and lean on it. We carry extraction kits made for the job, use them where the car is parked in TW3, and the wheel comes off without the alloy being wrecked in the process. School run in Cranford or 1am in Heston, we answer the same. Christmas Day in Heston, any day in Lampton: the line is open.
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This is the least urgent of the jobs we do and the one people leave longest. If the car lives around Hounslow West or Heston and a key has gone astray, book it in before a tyre forces the issue. We work on driveways and in car parks across TW3, TW4 and TW5, any day of the week.
Three previous owners and a glovebox full of everything except the one thing that mattered. Nobody had checked at handover, which is normal. We cleared all four in a single visit so the next tyre change is an ordinary appointment rather than an argument.
The key fitted, the nut turned a quarter and then stopped, which usually means corrosion has bound the thread rather than the cap. Forcing it at that point snaps studs. We took the nut off the outside instead and the stud survived intact.
A driver home at six in the morning with a puncture and a spare that would not go on, because the wheel would not come off. Two problems, one visit. The nut was extracted first, then the tyre itself was dealt with, and the car was ready before the next shift came round.
You can try, and occasionally a key turns up. More often it went missing several owners ago. Ringing us takes less time than chasing it, and you end up with a wheel that no longer depends on a small piece of steel nobody can find.
Not in itself, but it can stop the test happening at all, because a tester who cannot remove a wheel cannot examine what is behind it. That wasted slot is the real cost.
Yes. A staff car park near the A312 is fine, as is a driveway, a kerb or a residential bay. The car stays where you left it and the keys stay with you if that suits.
Not for the extraction itself, which is done with the wheel on the ground and the weight helping us. It only comes up if the wheel then needs to come off.
Usually the outer cap has parted from the body underneath and is turning freely on it. A key will never grip that again. The body has to be gripped directly, which is exactly what our sockets do.
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