The car comes back from a garage with the wheels on and the locking key handed over in a little bag. Nobody mentions anything. Weeks later a tyre goes down, you put the key on the nut, and it spins. Look properly at the nut and the outside of it is no longer a pattern at all. It is a smooth cone with the edges wiped off.
What happened is that somebody could not find your key, tried the nearest thing out of a tray of masters, and pulled the trigger on a gun. A near match only touches part of the splines, so all of that force lands on a few thin ridges of metal and rolls them flat in about a second. The nut is now locked to your car permanently, because the correct key will not grip it either. Taking it off is a different job from undoing a nut. A reverse cut socket is driven hard onto what is left of the skirt so that it bites deeper as it turns, and it comes off anticlockwise on a long bar, slowly.
The car does not have to move, which is just as well, because usually it cannot. A wheel that will not come off on Clapham Road is not a problem you can drive away from. Whether it is South Lambeth in rush hour or Brixton Road at midnight, we answer. On Clapham Road, day or night, South Lambeth included, arrival across SW9 runs 30 to 60 minutes. SW9 takes in Larkhall and the Clapham Road area, and we work the lot.
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Stockwell is a poor place to own a car whose wheels will not come off. Bays are permit only, the side streets are full by early evening, and there is rarely room for a truck to take the car anywhere in any case. We work at the bay, on the block, with the car exactly where you left it, and you are left with nuts an ordinary brace can undo.
The usual first sign, and the usual first reaction is to lean on it harder, which polishes away whatever splines were left. Stop at that point and ring somebody. Everything after the first slip makes the extraction harder.
On the streets around Stockwell Green there is nowhere to move a car to and nowhere for a truck to stand while it loads one. Working on the nut where the car already sits is not a convenience here, it is the only option available.
We see cars with the original locking nuts on two corners and whatever the last place had lying about on the other two. Bringing all four back to one matched set, or to plain nuts, is short work and saves the next roadside.
Yes. A key is a convenience for us rather than a requirement. The extraction socket works off the outside of the nut, so whether yours is lost, snapped or simply useless makes very little difference to how the job runs.
Only if that is what you want. Plenty of people in SW9 keep locking nuts because of where the car sits overnight, so a new set goes on and the key code gets written down for you. Others have had enough of them and take plain nuts instead.
Card or contactless at the car, once the work is finished and you have watched the wheel come off and go back on. Nothing needs arranging in advance and there is no cash to go and find.
Allow half an hour for a nut that has been properly chewed, less if it is only corroded. Most of that is spent going slowly on purpose. Rushing at it with a gun is how the nut got into this state to begin with.
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