Some locking nuts are built with a free spinning collar around the outside.
The other common variety is the ordinary splined nut whose key has been chewed by an impact gun. Once the pattern is rounded away, the key spins uselessly and the nut is effectively welded to the car as far as normal tools are concerned. Both types come off. Both take patience rather than force, and both are far easier on a driveway at a time you have chosen than in a lay-by on the A4010 in the rain.
So we book it in, come to the address, and take the wheel off without marking it.
Salt, weather and over-tightening are what usually do it. A locking nut that went on fine three winters ago now sits seized on a car parked on Wycombe Road, the key will not bite, and the wheel is not coming off for anybody. The wheel comes off in Whiteleaf, not on a ramp in Aylesbury. Nothing is towed out of Askett or Lacey Green; the work finishes there.
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There is nothing urgent about a locking nut until the day there is, and that day tends to be a wet one on the climb out of town. Because it is planned work we come at a time you pick, work on a level driveway rather than a gradient, and take as long as the wheel finish requires. Every nut that goes back on afterwards is tightened with a torque wrench to the figure the manufacturer specifies.
A car at Askett had locking nuts with free turning collars and no key anywhere in the vehicle. The collar was dealt with first so the nut body could be gripped, and each corner came out without a mark on the painted face of the wheel.
Diamond cut alloys on a car in the town centre are easy to scar and expensive to refinish. The wheel faces were shielded before anything touched the nut, and the owner looked over each one before we moved on to the next corner.
A driver at Whiteleaf who had lost the only key during a house move had all four locking nuts removed and a new set fitted, with the spare key put somewhere other than the boot well this time.
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Look at the outer face. A rotating outer ring that turns freely under your fingers means a collar type. A solid nut with a pattern on the end is a splined one. Either comes off, but telling us which helps the fitter arrive ready.
Sometimes, where the nut carries a legible code and the pattern is undamaged. Where the key was lost with no code recorded, or the splines are already rounded, buying one is a gamble and extraction is the reliable route.
It should not. The tooling grips the nut rather than the wheel, and the face is shielded while it turns out. On diamond cut or painted finishes we take longer over it precisely because a scar is expensive to put right.
The nut is normally sacrificed, yes. It comes out in one piece but it is not reusable, which is why a replacement nut or a full new locking set goes on in its place before the wheel is refitted.
Allow fifteen to twenty minutes for a single straightforward nut, and longer where one is seized or the collar type is involved. All four corners plus refitting is generally inside the hour.
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