The dangerous part of a seized locking nut is not the nut. It is the amount of leverage people end up applying to a car that is already sitting on a jack. A long bar on a stubborn nut puts a sideways shove through the whole vehicle, and a car that comes off its jack in a parking bay does real damage to whatever is underneath it at the time.
So the order matters. The nut gets broken loose with the wheel still on the ground and the full weight of the car on it, and only then does anything get lifted. On the cambered streets around Grosvenor Place and the slope down toward Vauxhall Bridge Road that is not a formality, because a car parked across a gradient is already leaning before anyone touches it. Chocks first, weight settled, force second. It is slower, and it is why nothing gets bent.
The nut in the glovebox is not always the right nut. We can come out in SW1, remove the nut properly with extraction tools rather than optimism, and fit a standard or replacement set so the whole thing stops being a guessing game. The Buckingham Palace Road phone and the the Ebury Street area phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in the Ebury Street area, midday in Belgravia, the same call either way. A SW1 address in Westminster and one in Grosvenor Gardens are the same round.
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Very little of SW1 lets you stop where you like, so a car that cannot have a wheel removed is a car stuck exactly where it is least convenient. That is why this one is worth dealing with before it turns urgent. Book it while the tyre is still holding air and the whole thing is a quiet twenty minutes rather than a crisis on a red route.
A car parked on a noticeable slope near Grosvenor Gardens needed a wheel off. We broke the locking nut free with all four wheels still down, then lifted it, which is the only sensible order on a gradient.
Half a locking key was still sitting down in the nut on a car off Ebury Street. We drew the broken piece out first, extracted the nut behind it and fitted a plain one.
A garage had turned a car away because it could not get the wheels off. We met the owner near Victoria Street, removed all four locking nuts and the service went ahead the following day.
No. The nut gets loosened while the wheel is still carrying the weight of the car, because that is what stops the vehicle being shoved off the jack. Only once it has moved does anything come off the ground.
It is a consideration rather than a problem. We chock the wheels, work with the weight down for as long as possible and lift on the flattest part of the footprint available. If a spot is genuinely unsafe we will say so and move the car a few metres.
Very seldom. Between extraction sockets and a bit of patience with penetrating fluid, almost everything comes out eventually. If a nut has been mangled badly enough to be doubtful, you get told that before we start rather than after.
Usually a matter of minutes once the tools are on it. A badly corroded one that needs soaking takes longer, and rushing that stage is how studs get sheared, so we let the fluid do its work.
Yes, and it is often worth it. If one has seized in place the other three have had the same weather, so replacing the set while the van is already with you saves a repeat visit later.
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