Nothing about this job is urgent, which is the first thing worth saying. A missing locking wheel nut key is not a fault and the car is perfectly safe to drive.
The pattern is familiar around Ruislip because of how many cars here are leased, shared or bought used. Keys go missing between owners. They also snap, most often after a tyre place has run one on an impact gun until the head gave way, and they wear out, so that the splines round off and the key spins in the nut without turning it. The fix is the same in each case: an extraction socket sized to bite the outside of the nut, driven on square, and turned out with a long bar rather than hammered.
Afterwards you choose what goes back on. Plain nuts to match the rest of the wheel, or a fresh locking set with keys if you would rather keep them.
A used car with no locking key is more common than the trade admits. If it has already gone, we can come out to Ickenham or wherever the car is parked, extract the nuts with the right tools and fit a standard or replacement set so the car is straightforward from then on. Nothing is towed out of Eastcote or Ickenham; the work finishes there. Pressures set before we leave Eastcote, and the same on West End Road.
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Locking nut work in Ruislip is mostly driveway work in Ickenham, Eastcote and the streets off Ruislip Road, arranged for a time that suits rather than dropped on you by a flat tyre. It is a mechanical job needing a tool most people do not own, and it takes far less time than the search through the boot floor that usually precedes the phone call.
A lease car in Ruislip Manor arrived from the previous keeper with a handbook and no locking key. The driver only found out when a tyre needed changing. We removed the nut, fitted a plain one and left a note of what was done for the lease company.
A car in Eastcote had a key that had been left on a rattle gun and spun until the teeth wore flat. It looked fine until you tried to use it. The nut came out on the extraction socket and a new set was fitted with two keys.
An owner in Ickenham was tired of hunting for the key every time the car went in for anything. All four locking nuts were removed and replaced with standard ones in a single appointment on the driveway.
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Yes, and that is how most of it is done. We arrange a time, come to the house or the workplace and deal with the wheel while the car sits where it is. There is no need to wait until you are stuck with a flat.
That is common, and it is why the tool is turned with a long bar rather than an air gun. Controlled force breaks the nut loose without shock loading the stud, and the stud is the part you really do not want to snap.
The splines on the nut have rounded off, usually from a slightly worn key used repeatedly, so the key is sliding rather than gripping. Extraction cuts below the rounded surface into sound metal and turns the whole nut out.
No. The nut is removed with the wheel still on the hub, which is what keeps everything located and square. The wheel then comes off normally afterwards if that is what the rest of the job needs.
That is your call. They are a deterrent against alloy theft, which counts for something around London, but they only work if you know where the key is. We are happy to fit a new set or leave the car on plain nuts.
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