Losing the locking wheel nut key puts you on a timetable that has nothing to do with the tyre. The dealer reads a code, either off the little card that came in the glovebox or traced back through the vehicle identification number, and orders a key from the manufacturer. That is several working days on a good week. Until it arrives the wheel is bolted on: the MOT retest waits, the seasonal set stays in the garage, and the spare in the boot is ornamental.
There is no reason to wait for the post. A locking nut can be taken off without its key and without harm to anything around it. Our extraction sockets bite into the outside of the nut body, grip harder the more they are turned, and wind it out cold, so the alloy keeps its face and the stud keeps its thread. What goes back on is your choice. Most people take a plain nut to match the other four and forget the whole business. If you would rather keep the security, a fresh locking set goes on with the key labelled and the code written down somewhere that is not the same glovebox.
You do not think about the locking nut until the moment it stops you. We carry specialist removal kits for exactly that and extract the nut where the car is standing, on a driveway in Staines Town or on the A320, with the alloy protected while we work. Old tyres leave Knowle Green, Staines Town and Surrey with us, every time. You watch it happen in Stanwell, or at the kerb in Laleham.
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Being without the car here is not a small inconvenience. Journeys out of Staines-upon-Thames get timed around the queues at Junction 13 and the airport flows on the A30 London Road, and people plan their mornings around both. Waiting most of a week for a small piece of coded metal to arrive in the post, with a perfectly good car stood on the drive, is a poor trade when the nut can simply be taken off.
A car sitting at Knowle Green had failed on a tyre nobody could reach. We drew the nut off the offside rear, fitted a standard one in its place, and the tester had the car back that afternoon instead of the following week.
The key had been driven on and off with an air gun until the pattern inside it was smooth. Our socket works on the outer face of the nut rather than the pattern, so it came away on the first pull with the wheel unmarked.
A soft tyre at Stanwell Moor and one nut welded solid to its stud, so the spare may as well not have been in the car. We took the nut out, changed the wheel over and left a plain replacement fitted.
It is rare, and it is usually a nut that has spun loose inside its outer collar. Those get a purchase cut into them and wound out cold, with no heat anywhere near the alloy. If a stud has to be renewed you hear about it and agree the price before we start.
Not unless you want one. A plain nut of the correct seat and thread ends the problem permanently. A coded key only makes sense if you are keeping a locking set on the car, and even then it is no longer urgent.
The tool sits down on the nut inside the recess and never touches the wheel face. Nuts standing proud of the alloy get the wheel protected first. Damage nearly always comes from somebody attacking a stuck nut with a chisel, not from taking it out properly.
Yes, and it happens fairly often. Provided their forecourt has room to work and they are happy for us to be on site, we can free the wheel where the car already stands so their job can carry on.
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