Bloody Lock Nuts

[BLK6T]

Yes its this old problem, cannot locate my lock nut key and as a result cannot remove my lock nuts!!!!

Very annoying, I have tried the socket trick but my lock nut is totally cylindrical with little nibs at the end, sockets are either too small or large. Tried a few tyre shops in my area and all said "NO" to helping remove.

Anyone here recommend anyone in Sydney Nth West or other areas that will assist?

I don't want to drive my car in fear of getting a puncture and being stranded not being able to remove the wheels.

Or any other ideas in removing the bloody things?

Cheers!

[senna_T]

If you get a socket that is close, you can then smash it over the lock nut - destroys the socket but generally gets you out of a bind...

Alternatively we have a few odd locknut adapters at work that we could try if you are around penrith next week? Long shot but the offer is there!

[Maximus]

We were talking about this yesterday.

Maybe try a big flat screwdriver jammed in the socket hole.

If you dont get enough torque from your wrist maybe cut the handle off the screwdriver and fit it to a drill???

The socket should work though. You really need to get one that's a little smaller and bash the crap out of it until its stuck on.

Just dont miss and hit your wheel.

You could use a chisle to damage the outer edge of the lock nut to give the socket something to grab to.

Hope you get it off as I heard of a horror story of a big melbourne performance shop forgetting to put the locknut key back with the car.

A few days later he got a flat and the car sat in a Geelong carpark for 4 days while the shop sent it thru the post to him.

[power_slide]

Im with Pat

Go buy a cheap socket and cold chisel hammer Smack the crap out of it and undo it by hand not a rattle gun

[mjadeb1984]

this happened to me, most tyre places will have a kit. its like a socket but has hardened blades on the inside, they bash it on and cuts into the nut and then just get the rattle gun on it and easy as pie. took my local tyre power 5 mins max.

good luck

[Maximus]

If you are paying someone to remove it, get them to do all of them otherwise you will have the same problem again.

[zzz-ba ute]

Mate had the same problem lately, what the guys say is true

get a slightly smaller socket and smash it onto the locknut

start to turn it to make sure it doesn't slip

because when you round of a locknut $$^#^#%^%^%^#@%*%^#^#

had do this about a week ago and could only find a kincrome

18ml deep socket. it was the only one I could find that would

fit and be sold sepereatly. got home smashed it on, took the

wheel nut off. I then put the socket in a vice used an old screw

driver to hammer the wheel nut out and no joke you couldn't tell

the socket had ever been used

[CJ_AK]

had the same issue a few month ago.

the socket trick over the nut is a sure way of getting it undone.

best to undo by hand though, the rattle guns torque will cause it to slip around the nut.

[lowfutura]

My Factory lock socket split, so smashed the old 18mm socket on and ditched the lot of them and went and picked up a set of decent lock nuts.

[Dagabond]

Pussies....

Get the friggin oxy out and be a man...