Company cars and cars that have passed through two or three owners are where this problem lives. The locking key is a small plastic sleeve that lives in a boot well, and it does not survive handovers. A car goes back at the end of a lease, gets sold on, gets reallocated between offices around EC1V, and somewhere in that chain the sleeve stays in somebody's drawer. Nobody misses it, because for two years nothing needs a wheel off.
Then an MOT is booked, or a tyre needs changing, and everything stops. That is what this job usually is: not an emergency but a blockage. The extraction kit comes to wherever the car is sitting, which around here is normally an office car park or a permit bay off Featherstone Street. The socket grips the outside of the nut, the nut winds out, and a plain one goes back in its place so the car stops being a problem for whoever inherits it.
You do not think about the locking nut until the moment it stops you. We carry specialist removal kits for exactly that and extract the nut where the car is standing, on a driveway in Moorfields or on Great Eastern Street, with the alloy protected while we work. Which street in St Luke's, which way the car sits in Moorfields, and we are set. Boxed in on a City Road terrace or wide open in the Featherstone Street area, say which on the phone. An EC1V address in the Featherstone Street area and one in the Bunhill Fields area are the same round.
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Nothing about a seized locking nut suits Old Street. The roundabout is not the place to discover the spare will not go on, and the side streets off City Road are not the place to leave a car half jacked while you find a garage. The fitter comes to the bay the car is already in, near Bunhill Fields or over towards Hoxton, and clears it while you get on with the day.
A tester could not lift a rear wheel and the car failed on something nobody could even inspect. It was met in the office car park the same week, the nut was cleared, and the retest went through.
A car bought from a dealer near Clerkenwell arrived one key short. The owner found out when a tyre needed replacing. All four nuts came out on a permit bay and plain ones went back on.
Somebody had put the nuts on with an air gun and the key no longer engaged with anything at all. The extraction socket does not use the internal pattern, so it made no difference to the job.
Fitting plain nuts is a like for like replacement and no lease company has ever objected. If yours insists on a locking set, a new one goes on instead, agreed before anything starts.
Yes, and most of these jobs happen exactly there. Give the level and the bay number and the fitter will find the car.
The socket bears on the nut, not the wheel. That is the entire reason a dedicated extraction tool exists rather than a pair of grips and optimism.
Not usually. The work is all outside the car. If a wheel needs turning to reach a nut you will be asked, otherwise you can stay at your desk.
Under an hour on most cars, longer where corrosion has really taken hold on the studs. Either way it is one visit rather than a booking and a wasted morning.
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