Half the locking nut jobs we do around Angel start the same way: not with a flat, but with an MOT booking and a wheel that will not come off. The key went missing in a house move, or it left with the previous owner, or the nut has sat through five winters in a permit bay off Barnsbury and rusted onto the stud until nothing will shift it.
That is a nuisance rather than an emergency, and it is worth saying so plainly. Nobody is stranded. What has happened is that one small piece of hardware now blocks the tyre change, the brake job or the spare going on, and a garage has told you to sort it before you come back. We bring extraction tools that bite on a rounded or seized nut and back it out without chewing the alloy, then leave you a plain replacement so the wheel opens up next time. On a street like Canonbury, where you would lose your space for the afternoon, having it dealt with at the kerb is the whole point.
People worry about the alloy, and they are right to. The extraction happens where the car is parked in Canonbury, slowly and with the wheel protected, and the alloy comes through it intact. Driveways, work car parks and the roads near Upper Street are all ordinary ground for this. Old tyres leave Canonbury, Barnsbury and N1 with us, every time. You watch it happen in Upper Street, or at the kerb in Angel.
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In N1 a car can stand a fortnight without moving, which is exactly what welds a locking nut onto its stud. Nobody discovers this until the day of a test or the morning of a flat. Sorting it at the kerb in Barnsbury or Canonbury costs you only the time it takes us to arrive.
A test booked for nine, a garage that would not touch the car without a key, and a set already declared borderline. We turned out that evening, drew all four locking nuts off, put standard ones on and left the car ready for the ramp.
A car bought privately in Highbury arrived with two door keys and nothing for the wheels. The seller had no idea where it had gone. We matched a tool to the pattern, took all four out and swapped them for a set the owner can actually use.
Somebody had already been at it with a socket and a hammer, and the nut was chewed round. Slow pressure got it turning again. The alloy kept its face, which was the bit the owner had been fretting about.
No. The tool grips the outside of the nut and turns it out, so nothing bears against the wheel face. Rounded ones and corroded ones both come away like this, and we take our time on anything that wants to fight.
Not for us, because we do not need it. A key only makes the job quicker if it happens to turn up, and most people who ring have already emptied the glovebox twice.
Usually it waits, and that is fine. Tell us when suits and we come then. It only becomes urgent when the wheel has to come off for a puncture or a test that day.
A normal nut, so the wheel comes off in the ordinary way in future. If you would rather keep locking nuts, say so and a fresh set goes on with a key you know you have.
Yes, and it is where the majority of these jobs happen. The car stays exactly where you left it, off Upper Street or up towards Highbury, and we work at the kerb beside it.
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