This is the one call we get where nothing is wrong with the tyre. The wheel simply cannot come off, because the locking nut key has gone missing, sheared, or worn smooth in the socket.
Lease and company cars are over represented in this. They pass between drivers, the key lives in a bag rather than the car, and eventually somebody notices it never came back. The nut itself is unremarkable; it is the pattern on its face that makes it unopenable without the matching adapter.
Removal is planned, mechanical work. We come to the car, take the nut out with an extraction socket, and protect the wheel while doing it.
It usually surfaces the night before something. We work through the night across Berkshire, so the nut can be extracted at whatever hour you find the problem, with the alloy protected and a standard or replacement nut fitted afterwards. The Eton phone and the Datchet phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Datchet, midday in Dedworth, the same call either way.
Locking wheel nut removal in Windsor is part of our wider mobile tyre fitting cover. For locking wheel nut removal in Windsor, call 07717 389637 or ask us for a quote.
Almost nobody rings about a locking wheel nut until it stands between them and something else, usually an MOT date or a tyre appointment that cannot go ahead without it. In Windsor, where getting a car anywhere at short notice is a project in itself, having the nut dealt with on your own drive at a booked time is a good deal simpler than discovering the problem in a workshop bay.
A vehicle handed over in Dedworth arrived with no wheel nut key, which nobody discovered until tyres were due. Four nuts came off on the driveway, a standard set went on, and the fleet paperwork stopped being an obstacle to getting the work done.
A car kept outside near Old Windsor had a nut so corroded into its seat that the key would not even sit on it. Cleaning the socket out first, then working it loose with heat and patience, got it out without any harm to the wheel.
The tyre was repairable and the key was nowhere in the car. We removed the locking nut first and repaired the tyre afterwards, so it was one visit and one bill rather than a car left on a flat while a key was hunted for.
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Called at 10am, the fitter arrived with Bridgestone tyres at 10:45am and was finished by 11:15am. Very reasonably priced and great communication, would definitely use again.
Absolutely amazing service. They turned up promptly and got the wheel changed within 20 minutes. The pricing was also very reasonable and transparent.
The guy I spoke to on the phone was very friendly and understanding, especially as having two tyres needing to be replaced was quite stressful. He arrived quickly, talked me through everything, and gave me honest advice. He also went above and beyond by checking other things on the car and explaining the condition of all my tyres.
It slips on the nut rather than gripping, often with a gritty feel, and you may see the splines on the key have been flattened off. That damage nearly always comes from an impact wrench being used on it, and once it slips it will not recover.
Yes, and most people have all four done at once so the problem never comes back. It is the same tooling and the same trip, and it means the next garage to touch the car does not need to ask about a key at all.
Normally it is booked in advance, because a locking nut on its own strands nobody. Where it turns up in the middle of a puncture and the wheel will not come off, it gets dealt with there and then as part of that job.
Yes, that is the point of replacing the set. Standard nuts in the correct thread, seat type and length go on, and any workshop can then remove them with an ordinary socket. If you prefer to keep locking nuts we will fit a new set with spare keys.
No. It is done at the kerb or on the drive with the wheel still on the hub. All that is needed is space to work alongside that corner of the car and enough room to swing a bar, which most parking spaces will allow.
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