There is a design detail in most locking keys that explains a great many of these calls. Plenty of them have a free spinning collar around the outside, meant to stop a thief gripping the key with a socket. It also means that once the splines inside start to wear, the whole thing turns happily in your hand while the nut does not move at all. People assume the nut has seized. Often it has not, and the key has simply stopped engaging with it.
Either way the wheel is not coming off with the tools in the boot, and that is the moment the spare turns out to be an ornament. This is our own patch, so a call from the streets off Aldermans Hill or up towards Winchmore Hill usually means a short drive. The extraction socket goes onto the outside of the nut, bites into the body of it and winds it out on a bar. A plain nut goes back on at the manufacturer's torque figure, and the next person who needs that wheel off can use an ordinary socket.
The car does not have to move, which is just as well, because usually it cannot. A wheel that will not come off on the North Circular is not a problem you can drive away from. Old tyres leave New Southgate, Winchmore Hill and N13 with us, every time. You watch it happen in Palmers Green, or at the kerb in Bowes Park. A N13 address in New Southgate and one in Winchmore Hill are the same round.
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The Green Lanes corridor is a poor place to discover that a wheel will not come off, and the streets between there and Winchmore Hill are no better for jacking a car up at the roadside. The extraction kit comes to the car, often only a few minutes away, and the wheel is left so it can be lifted with ordinary tools whenever it next needs to be.
A driver on a street off Bourne Hill was sure the nut had rusted solid. The key was worn and the outer collar was spinning. Extraction had it out in a couple of minutes.
A tyre went down on the North Circular and the spare could not go on because of one locking nut. The nut was drawn and the tyre dealt with in the same visit.
A car near Broomfield Park had a rear nut nobody could shift. It was cleared on the drive so the test could actually be carried out.
Not necessarily. Many keys have a loose outer collar and a worn spline pattern inside, so the key turns and the nut does not. It looks identical to a seized nut and is easier to deal with.
This is home ground. Calls from N13 and the streets around the station are normally reached quickly, and the phone is answered 24 hours a day.
The socket is guided by the nut and bears on the nut, so it never touches the wheel face. That is the whole reason a purpose made extraction tool exists.
Yes, and that is usually why people ring. The nut is the obstacle rather than the job, and once it is out the tyre work carries on as normal.
A plain nut of the correct thread and seat type, torqued properly. If you would rather have a fresh locking set, say so when you ring.
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