The nut is the cheap part. What a missing locking key really costs is the test slot you paid for and could not use, the day the car spent at a workshop waiting on a tool that was not in the building, and sometimes a recovery that would never have been needed if the wheel had simply come off at the kerb. All of it traces back to a car changing hands with nobody looking in the boot.
That is how most keys disappear. It leaves with the previous owner, in a glovebox tidy up or a drawer at an old address, and the fault only surfaces years later on a second or third owner who never had reason to look. Two minutes now saves the entire chain. It is a short splined sleeve, normally in a plastic case, and it lives in the spare wheel well, the glovebox, or bundled up with the jack. If it is in none of those, it is not in the car. Far better we come out on a dry afternoon at a time that suits you than meet you on a wet pavement because a tyre picked tonight to go down.
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 Hayes Bypass is not a problem you can drive away from. Steep camber in Norwood Green? We move a few metres, Dormers Wells or anywhere else. Blocked drive in Dormers Wells? Open kerb in The Broadway? Either works. The UB1 postcode and a street in The Broadway: that is enough.
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In UB1 and UB2 the practical problem is not the nut, it is where you would take it. Leaving a car at a workshop means a lift back, a day without it, and a parking space you will not get again when you return. Because the whole job happens where the car already stands, on your own street or outside work, nobody has to drive anything anywhere.
Nearly every one of these begins at a handover where nobody thought to check. The seller had no reason to mention it, the buyer had no reason to ask, and the first anyone knows is the day a wheel has to come off.
A tester will not fight a locking nut, and quite right too. Book us in the week beforehand and the car turns up with either plain nuts or a fresh set and a key you can actually put your hand on.
Most of these get done after dark, simply because that is when people are home and the car is finally parked outside. It makes no odds to the work, since the light comes off the van.
The nut carries a pattern on its face and each manufacturer uses a set of them, so the pattern points at a key number. That only helps if a key with that number can still be got hold of, which on an older used car it frequently cannot.
Sometimes, if the nuts are the original factory set and the code is still on record. It takes days, it costs more than people expect, and in the meantime you still have a wheel that will not come off.
Not necessarily, but it is usually worth it. There is one locking nut per wheel, so once the key has gone all four are stuck. Clearing the lot in a single visit means you never meet this problem again on a bad night.
Perfectly. They deter theft and nothing more, and no test or law requires them. A standard nut of the correct thread and seat is the right fastener for the job and torques up exactly the same.
Reckon on ten to twenty minutes a corner where a nut has been rounded or has no key at all, and longer if corrosion has joined in. Four wheels is comfortably an hour at the kerb, without the car going anywhere.
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