Occasionally the nut is not stuck at all. You put the key on, it engages properly, and the nut turns and turns and never comes off, because the stud underneath has stripped its thread and the whole assembly is now spinning together. It feels like progress for about ten seconds and then you realise nothing is moving outwards. That is a different failure from a seizure and it needs a different approach, since no amount of leverage will undo a fastener that has nothing left to unscrew from.
Getting it off means holding the nut still and dealing with the stud, and it is a job for somebody with the right gear rather than for a roadside improvisation. It is also worth knowing why it happened, which is nearly always overtightening at some point in the past: an air gun run at full pressure will stretch a stud past its yield and the thread never recovers. So the replacement goes back on to the manufacturer's figure with a torque wrench, and that number is what stops it happening again, on a drive in Gidea Park or in a car park off the ring road.
The nut in the glovebox is not always the right nut. We can come out in RM1, remove the nut properly with extraction tools rather than optimism, and fit a standard or replacement set so the whole thing stops being a guessing game. The wheel comes off in Harold Wood, not on a ramp in Ilford. Nothing is towed out of Collier Row or Gidea Park; the work finishes there. The RM1 postcode and a street in Gidea Park: that is enough.
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Romford has plenty of cars that have been through several owners and several tyre bays, and a stripped stud is usually the legacy of one of them. It is not a roadside guess of a job. The gear comes to wherever the car sits, whether that is the town centre, Marshalls Park or a retail car park off the A118, and what goes back on is torqued rather than hammered.
A driver in Collier Row had a nut that turned freely for as long as they liked. The stud thread had stripped, so the wheel was going nowhere on leverage alone.
A car near Rush Green had studs stretched by an impact gun long before the current owner had it. The failure only surfaced when a wheel finally needed to come off.
A set replaced in Harold Wood went back on a torque wrench rather than a gun. That is the entire difference between this happening once and happening again.
The thread on the stud has stripped, so the nut is turning without unscrewing from anything. It is not a seizure and leverage will not solve it.
Overtightening, almost always with an impact gun. The stud gets stretched beyond what it can recover from and the thread lets go later.
It is more involved than a straightforward extraction, and you will be told what is involved before anything is committed to rather than partway through.
In most cases, yes. Give the address or the bay and the fitter will bring what is needed.
Nuts going back on a torque wrench at the manufacturer's figure. It is a number rather than a feel, and an air gun cannot produce it.
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