Before anything else, check the boot. On most cars the locking wheel nut key lives under the boot floor beside the jack, or occasionally in the glovebox, and a good share of the calls we take about missing keys end with the owner finding it while the van is still on its way. Two minutes of looking is worth it before you book anybody at all.
When the key genuinely has gone, or when it has rounded off and no longer bites, the nut still has to come off before the tyre can be touched. We carry tooling that removes locking nuts without the key, worked slowly so the alloy is not chewed up in the process. On a car wedged into a short Broadway bay that care matters, because there is very little room to swing anything. Once the wheel is free the tyre job carries on as normal, and a plain nut can go back in place of the locking one so the problem does not repeat.
It is worth saying that this is not an unusual call. We come out with the extraction kits to Fortis Green, Coldfall or anywhere in between, get the nut off where the car is standing with the alloy protected, and then deal with the tyre itself. Ring at 3am from Cranley Gardens and someone answers; Alexandra Park at noon is no different. A 4am Coldfall call and a noon Tetherdown call reach the same fitter. From Alexandra Palace through The Broadway to Fortis Green, it is one round.
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A locking nut only ever becomes a problem at the worst moment, which around Muswell Hill usually means a flat on a hill street and a car you now cannot even lift. Having it removed while you are parked at home is a far calmer job than doing it at the side of Colney Hatch Lane in the rain. We come to you either way, and the wheel gets treated as carefully as the nut does.
A flat tyre and a key that was not in the car at all. We removed the locking nut on the Coldfall driveway, changed the tyre and left a standard nut in its place.
A driver near Alexandra Park had a key already chewed by somebody's air gun. It no longer gripped, so the nut was extracted and the wheel came off cleanly.
A car bought a month earlier had arrived with no locking key in the pack. All four were removed on the drive and a matching standard set went on.
Under the boot floor with the jack and the toolkit, in the glovebox, or in a door pocket. It is a small socket, usually black plastic on the outside with a splined steel insert.
Yes. We carry proper extraction tooling for locking nuts and use it carefully, so the nut comes out without the wheel face taking the punishment.
The aim is no. We work on the nut itself rather than attacking the wheel around it, and in a tight bay near the Broadway that patience is most of the job.
Yes. Most drivers choose a plain nut so it never happens again. If you would rather keep a locking set, a new one with fresh keys can go on instead.
Only the ones standing in the way of the job. If you want the whole car put back to standard nuts while we are there, that is easily done in the same visit.
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