This one is rarely urgent and almost always annoying.
There are three versions of it. The key has been lost, often when the car changed hands and nobody thought to check. The key has snapped, usually because it was left on an airgun by somebody in a hurry. Or the key still exists but the splines on the nut have rounded off, so it spins instead of gripping. All three are solved the same way: a hardened extraction socket is driven onto the nut, bites into the outside of it and turns it out under controlled force, with the alloy face shielded throughout.
A plain nut goes back in its place, or a fresh locking set with new keys if you want the security back. It is booked work rather than a callout, done while the car sits where it is.
No key, no wheel, no tyre change. That is the whole of the problem, and it turns up in Maidenhead 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. School run in Cox Green or 1am in Furze Platt, we answer the same. Christmas Day in Pinkneys Green, any day in Bray: the line is open.
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Locking nut work is the quiet end of what we do in Maidenhead: no hazard lights, no verge, just a car on a driveway and a nut that will not shift. It is worth sorting before you need the wheel off in a hurry, because finding out the key is missing at the roadside on the A404(M) at night is a considerably worse way to discover it.
A car bought secondhand in Maidenhead came with one ignition key and no locking nut key at all. Nobody discovered it until a tyre needed changing. All four locking nuts were extracted and replaced with plain ones so it never arises again.
A driver in Furze Platt had the head of the key shear off at a fast fit centre, leaving the remains in the socket. The nut itself was untouched. Extraction took a few minutes on the driveway and a new locking set went on afterwards.
A car in Bray had a nut whose pattern had worn smooth from repeated use with a slightly loose key, so the key turned without gripping. The extraction socket found fresh metal below the rounded edge and the nut came out with the wheel face unmarked.
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Yes. The key is convenient rather than necessary. A hardened socket grips the outer face of the nut and turns it out, and on most cars that is a job of minutes rather than a reason to move the vehicle anywhere.
Not if it is set up properly. The tool works on the nut, the wheel face is shielded and the force is applied square. Damage comes from rushing, or from an impact gun on a badly seated socket, which is precisely what we avoid.
Many workshops will not attempt an extraction, because if the wheel gets marked they own the problem and they may not carry the right sockets. It is a specific tool and a specific technique rather than something every ramp is set up for.
Either plain nuts matching the rest of the wheel, or a new locking set with two keys if you want to keep the security. We will tell you what the car takes and leave the choice with you, and you are not obliged to have locking nuts at all.
No, and most of it is not. It is ordinary booked work done on driveways around Pinkneys Green and Holyport at an arranged time. If it happens to come up alongside a flat tyre, we deal with both in the same visit.
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