What do you do when the wheel will not come off and the nearest place that could help is a twenty minute drive you are not keen to make? Out here that is the real shape of the problem. In town you can walk somewhere. In Mawsley or out past Rothwell you are relying on the car working, and a locking nut with no key turns a simple tyre change into an errand nobody has time for.
We come to the address. The nut is extracted with tooling made for the job, whether it has been rounded by somebody else's socket, sheared off at the head, or welded on by rust after years of standing outside. The alloy is not marked in the process. Afterwards you get an ordinary nut in its place, so the next person to lift that wheel has no trouble at all. It is rarely an emergency. It is the small obstruction that has stopped a service, an MOT or a tyre change from going ahead, and it is worth clearing on a quiet morning rather than in a lay-by.
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 Kettering, and the wheel comes off without the alloy being wrecked in the process. The Brambleside phone and the Barton Seagrave phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Burton Latimer, midday in Mawsley, the same call either way.
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Because Kettering is well outside our North London base, we send a mobile van out into Northamptonshire and agree the visit in advance rather than turning up on spec. It means a locking nut job is worth booking a day ahead where you can, particularly if you are out towards Mawsley or over near the A6003.
A car in Burton Latimer booked in for a test with a tyre that had to be changed first, and no key anywhere in the house. We came to the drive, extracted all four nuts, fitted ordinary ones and the test went ahead the following day.
An older car that had spent years outside with two rear nuts corroded solid. A breaker bar would have taken a stud with it. Steady extraction got both out and the wheels came away cleanly.
A driver near Rothwell had a flat, a perfectly good spare and no means of removing the wheel. That is a bad position to be in at the roadside. We removed the nut, and the spare went on before we then dealt with the tyre itself.
The whole area. Barton Seagrave, Burton Latimer, Mawsley and Rothwell are all on the round, and being a few miles out is not a reason for us to decline the job.
No, and that is rather the point. The car stays on your drive and the tooling comes to it.
That is one of the most common versions of this call. A rounded nut is still removable with the right extractor, and the state it is in does not change the outcome.
No. The tool bites on the nut only, so nothing touches the wheel face at any point.
Often, yes. A slot is fixed with you when you ring, so nobody is left waiting about all afternoon.
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