There is a version of this problem where the nuts all come off cleanly and the wheel still will not move, and it catches people out badly. Alloy wheels sit against a steel hub, and over a few years the two corrode together at the mating face until the wheel is effectively glued on. You end up with five nuts in your hand, a car on a jack, and a wheel that will not budge for anything you can safely do at the roadside.
It tends to turn up alongside a stuck locking nut, because both are symptoms of a wheel that has not been off in years. So the visit deals with the whole thing: the locking nut comes out on an extraction socket without touching the wheel face, and then the wheel itself is broken free properly, with the car supported correctly rather than being kicked while it sits on a jack. Once it is off, the mating face gets cleaned back so the next removal is ordinary. Around SW15 that all happens where the car is parked, which given the permit streets up towards Putney Heath is the only realistic option anyway.
Salt is what does most of them in. Cars parked out on the road, on Upper Richmond Road included, get the worst of it. We do that where the car stands in SW15, then fit a standard or replacement nut so the next wheel-off is a normal job. Whether it is Roehampton in rush hour or the South Circular at midnight, we answer. On the South Circular, day or night, Roehampton included, arrival across SW15 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Cars around West Putney and up towards the Heath often go years without a wheel coming off, and both the locking nut and the wheel itself seize in that time. Doing it properly, with the car supported and the mating face cleaned back, means the next time is a five minute job. None of it needs the car to move from the space it is in.
A car in West Putney had not had a wheel off since it was new. All five fasteners came away and the wheel stayed exactly where it was, corroded onto the hub.
A locking nut that would not turn and a wheel seized to the hub behind it, on a car near East Putney. One visit dealt with both.
A wheel off a car near Putney Vale had a thick ring of corrosion on the mating face. Cleaning it back is what stops the same job being twice as long in three years.
It has corroded onto the hub, which is common on a wheel that has not been removed in years. It needs to come off properly with the car correctly supported, not by force while it sits on a jack.
Kicking or levering at a wheel while the car is on a jack is one of the more reliable ways to have it come off the jack. It is not worth it.
Usually not. It is corrosion at the flat face where the wheel meets the hub, and cleaning it back solves it.
That is normally why the call comes in. The nut comes out on an extraction socket and the wheel gets freed in the same visit.
Yes. The car stays in its bay in SW15 and the work happens alongside it.
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