The question we hear most on this job is whether taking the locking nuts off means giving up locking nuts for good. It does not. A lost or chewed key is a key problem, not a security decision. Once the dead nut is out you get a choice, and most people with alloys they are fond of make the same one: a fresh locking set goes back on, with its own key, and the wheels are protected again by the time we pack up.
What we do differently is what happens to that key afterwards. It gets labelled, the code gets written down somewhere you will still find it in three years, and we point out that the boot lid pocket the last one lived in is exactly where keys go missing. Keys that stay with the car survive. There is also no rush here. Nine times out of ten this is not an emergency at all: it is the job standing between you and an MOT, a seasonal wheel swap, or simply getting the spare on.
It is the one that catches people out at the roadside: a flat, a spare in the boot, and a locking nut nobody can undo. We bring specialist removal kits out to you, to Tooting Bec or anywhere else in Tooting, and extract it on the spot, protecting the alloy as we go, then carry on with the tyre change or repair you actually rang about. Tight in Furzedown, easy in Bec Common: neither stops the job. Level in Furzedown, sloping in Bec Common: we set the car straight first.
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Almost none of these calls are emergencies, which suits the streets around Furzedown and Tooting Graveney, where the car sits in a permit bay outside the house and is going nowhere anyway. Book a time you are home, leave it exactly where it is, and we work at the kerb. Nobody has to chase a garage slot or arrange a lift back from one.
The key sheared level with the face of the nut on a car parked off Upper Tooting Road. Both halves had to come out before anything else could happen, and the wheel was off about twenty minutes later.
A test failure on tyres is easy to put right until nobody can get the wheel off. We came out on the Sunday, extracted the seized nut, fitted the new locking set and labelled the key, and the retest went ahead.
Two sets of wheels, two sets of nuts, and only one key that had survived the swap. We backed the odd ones out and put a single matched locking set across all four, so the next changeover is straightforward.
That is rare, and it is why more than one method rides on the van. Extraction sockets deal with most of them, and where corrosion has welded a nut on there are slower ways in that still leave the stud and the hub usable. You will hear which it is before we start.
No. Leave the car where it is parked and tell us which one it is. If you would rather stay indoors, we will knock when the wheel is back on and take a card payment then.
Not if it is done properly. The socket works on the nut, not on the wheel face, and everything goes back on with a torque wrench rather than a rattle gun. Air guns are what ruin locking nuts and alloy faces in the first place.
Yes. Plain nuts and locking sets both ride on the van, so you are not left with a wheel held on by four nuts and a promise. Whichever you choose goes on the same afternoon and is torqued to the figure the manufacturer specifies.
On plain steel wheels, honestly, often not. On decent alloys it still is, because a full set of wheels walks quietly and insurers ask questions afterwards. You can decide once the old nut is out, and you are not paying twice either way.
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