This one is not an emergency, and it usually starts with a booking rather than a breakdown.
We remove them as a standalone job, by appointment, at your house or your workplace. The method depends on what has failed. A rounded head takes a hardened extraction socket driven on and wound off; a snapped key means getting a grip on whatever is left; a nut machine tightened to four hundred newton metres by a previous fitter wants heat and leverage rather than brute force.
Throughout, the object is to get the nut out without marking the alloy.
The worst time to find out the key has gone is at the roadside with a flat. Stopped on the M25 near junction 9, a spare in the boot and one nut that will not turn is about as unhelpful as a car gets. Blocked drive in Givons Grove? Open kerb in Oxshott Road? Either works. Which street in Oxshott Road, which way the car sits in Fetcham, and we are set.
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Locking nut work is the one job here that is never urgent and always annoying, and it tends to surface at the worst moment: the morning of the MOT, or with a flat on a car whose key vanished two owners ago. Booking it in advance turns it into a quiet half hour on the drive instead of a problem discovered at the roadside on the A243 with the light going.
A car in Ashtead Common was booked for a test the following week and the key had gone with the previous owner. We took all four locking nuts off on the driveway and fitted a plain set to match, so the wheels came away without argument at the garage.
The splines on the adapter had been chewed somewhere along the line, so it turned without gripping anything. An extraction socket bit into what remained of the nut head and wound it out cleanly, with the alloy face left untouched.
A car parked on the Oxshott Road for years had a nut corroded solid into its seat. That one wanted patience, penetrating oil and heat rather than force. Rushing it is how a stud gets snapped, and a snapped stud turns a half hour into a workshop job.
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Because if the alloy gets marked or a stud snaps during removal, they own the damage. Plenty of workshops decide it is not worth the argument and hand it straight back to the customer. It is specialist work with the right sockets, and it is what we do.
Not when it is done with the correct extraction socket and the wheel protected first. The nut itself is sacrificed, which is unavoidable, but the alloy face and the seat should look exactly as they did beforehand. That is why we work slowly at it.
Yes. Most people take a set of standard nuts in the right thread, seat and length, which ends the problem for good. If you would rather stay locking, we can fit a new set that comes with two keys instead of one.
Anything from ten minutes for a straightforward rounded nut to the better part of an hour for one corroded in or already drilled at by somebody else. We give you a realistic idea once we have seen what state the thing is actually in.
No, this happens where the car is parked. A driveway in Fetcham or a space at work is fine, provided there is room to get alongside the wheel. It is planned work, so we book a time that suits rather than treating it as a callout.
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