The commonest reason people ring us about a locking nut has nothing to do with a flat tyre. It is that an MOT has stopped. A tester cannot inspect a brake he cannot reach, and he cannot reach it if the wheel will not come off, so the whole test halts on the spot and the car goes back to you with a note and no certificate. Nothing else about the vehicle has been established, and the retest cannot happen until the wheel problem is solved.
That makes it a deadline job rather than an emergency, and it wants treating that way. Tell us when the retest is booked and we work backwards from it, which usually means doing it the evening before at the house or in a workplace bay. The nut comes off, a plain one goes on, and the car arrives at the retest as an ordinary car rather than an argument.
People worry about the alloy, and they are right to. A locking nut sits recessed, so anything that slips inside that recess marks the face of the wheel, and a badly extracted nut can take a chunk out of the rim. The extraction happens where the car is parked in Westfield, slowly and with the wheel protected, and the alloy comes through it intact. A Wood Lane driveway is our workshop, and so is a Westfield kerb. Old tyres leave Old Oak, Westway corridor and Greater London with us, every time.
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White City is not an easy place to leave a car sitting while you sort out a garage, with Westfield traffic, the Westway overhead and pressure on every space around Wood Lane. That is the practical argument for doing this at the vehicle. It is a tool problem rather than a workshop problem, so the tools travel and the car stays where it is.
Nothing further gets checked, so you learn nothing about the car and still have to come back. It is a frustrating way to lose a morning and it is entirely fixable in advance.
Give us the time of the slot and we will work backwards rather than turning up at some vague point in the day. Most of these get done the evening before.
Plenty of people find out when a tyre goes down rather than at a test. Either way the car does not have to move, and we work in car parks routinely provided there is clearance for the van.
It does not fail exactly, it stops. The tester cannot inspect what he cannot reach, so the test is abandoned rather than completed, and you need a retest once the wheel is accessible.
Yes, and that is the usual arrangement. Tell us the appointment time and we will schedule around it rather than leaving you guessing.
Some do and many will not risk marking your alloy. It is specialist work and most testing stations sensibly decline it.
Minutes for a straightforward nut, longer where corrosion is involved. Either way it is one visit with no parts to wait for.
A plain nut of the correct thread and seat, torqued to your manufacturer's published figure. We can replace the whole set if you would rather not repeat this.
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