Locking wheel nuts
03-28-2011, 06:47 AM
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Locking wheel nuts
The 'S' went into the local garage today as I have a sticking front caliper and they were going to try and free it for me. I get a phone call 20mins in to ask if I had the socket for the locking wheel nuts. I told them it was in the boot but they couldn't find it 
so they ended up getting them off by force 
. I was expecting them to then ring me up and tell me the alloys had been damaged in the process but the garage was excellent and had removed them without collateral damage (some good news then).
The lost socket? Well I don't work on my car, I'm shite at DIY so the only other people who would have had cause to use it are Honda Gatwick when the 'S' went in last year for its BIG service. Not impressed as the had also chipped the paint on the rocker cover jemmying the pipes off to do the valve clearances
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Unfortunately that leaves me with getting some new lockers. Are the Honda ones the best to get (these are what were originally on the car and the garage had little trouble getting them off ) or are there any others on the market which are better. Not sure on the price of the Honda ones but don't really want to spend big money probably up to £50.
Cheers
Martin
so they ended up getting them off by force . I was expecting them to then ring me up and tell me the alloys had been damaged in the process but the garage was excellent and had removed them without collateral damage (some good news then).The lost socket? Well I don't work on my car, I'm shite at DIY so the only other people who would have had cause to use it are Honda Gatwick when the 'S' went in last year for its BIG service. Not impressed as the had also chipped the paint on the rocker cover jemmying the pipes off to do the valve clearances
. Unfortunately that leaves me with getting some new lockers. Are the Honda ones the best to get (these are what were originally on the car and the garage had little trouble getting them off
) or are there any others on the market which are better. Not sure on the price of the Honda ones but don't really want to spend big money probably up to £50.Cheers
Martin
03-29-2011, 05:45 AM
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i keep a note of my locking wheel nut key code just incase i do loose it.
probably not much use now the work has been done, but something worth remembering for your next set.
end of the day; it's a deterent. if a cretin sees it has nuts on it then chances are he'll leave it alone as it'd be too much effort & noise to hammer a socket on. based on that; anything will do!
i'm personally a fan of the ones with the socket that fit on the outside of the nut for issues like this. the most secure ones are perfectly round on the outside but have an internal drive (similar to how an Alan key drive is), but would of likely cost an alloy wheel to remove.
again, keep the wheel nut key code in a safe place as you can get another key made up.
probably not much use now the work has been done, but something worth remembering for your next set.
end of the day; it's a deterent. if a cretin sees it has nuts on it then chances are he'll leave it alone as it'd be too much effort & noise to hammer a socket on. based on that; anything will do!
i'm personally a fan of the ones with the socket that fit on the outside of the nut for issues like this. the most secure ones are perfectly round on the outside but have an internal drive (similar to how an Alan key drive is), but would of likely cost an alloy wheel to remove.
again, keep the wheel nut key code in a safe place as you can get another key made up.
03-29-2011, 08:33 AM
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To veehexx, Good advice but unfortunately they were on the car when I bought it and there was no code.
To Woobly, yes I checked too and wasn't surprised tbh.
To Woobly, yes I checked too and wasn't surprised tbh.
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