It is worth asking what the nut is actually for. A locking wheel nut exists to make a set of alloys slightly harder to steal, so one is fitted per wheel and the rest are ordinary. That was a reasonable trade when wheels were routinely lifted off cars overnight. What it costs you is a single point of failure on every corner of the car, and around Praed Street and Sussex Gardens far more people ring us locked out of their own wheels than ever ring about a theft.
So when a seized or rounded nut comes out, a plain one goes back in its place by default, and most drivers are content with that. If you would rather keep a locking set, that is fine and a new one gets fitted, agreed before the socket goes anywhere near the wheel. Either way it happens where the car is, which for people ringing from here is usually a permit bay behind the station or a hospital car park during a shift, because those are the places cars in W2 sit still long enough to be worked on.
A lost locking wheel nut key is a small problem with a large consequence. The tyre may only need a repair, but if the wheel will not come off the car is going nowhere, and that is a genuinely bad position on Edgware Road. The Little Venice phone and the Sheldon Square phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Sussex Gardens, midday in Praed Street, the same call either way.
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The traffic along the Edgware Road corridor makes any avoidable journey a bad one, and a stuck wheel nut is entirely avoidable as a journey. The extraction gear comes to the bay the car is already in, whether that is behind Praed Street or over towards Bayswater, and the wheel is left so ordinary tools will shift it.
A driver working long hospital shifts had a nut nobody could shift and no time to sit in a garage waiting room. It was cleared in the car park while they were inside.
A single seized nut on the nearside rear meant the spare could not go on when a tyre went down near Westbourne Terrace. That is the entire design flaw in one sentence.
An owner near Little Venice had been through this twice already. All four locking nuts came off, ordinary ones went on, and the car has been straightforward since.
Slightly more so in theory. In practice a locking nut delays somebody with the right tool by about a minute and delays you by days. Your call, and a new locking set goes on instead if you prefer.
Because a wheel needs all of its nuts off before it will come away. One that will not move is the same as five that will not move.
Yes. Give the level and the bay and the fitter works beside the car without needing you standing there.
Not for this. The work is entirely outside the car, and payment is card or contactless once it is done.
Usually well under an hour for the whole set, and much less for a single nut. Corrosion is the only thing that meaningfully slows it down.
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