Drilling out wheel bolts

[SaBBz]

Hi all

Just looking for advice.

Had some new tyres put on my F11 around 18 months ago, and am now in need of some new tyres. I booked it into a garage a few weeks ago and they were unable to take the wheels off, and actually broke the alloy wheel key trying to get them off. I’ve just had a mobile tyre fitter out who has rounded a bolt and broken one of his sockets trying to get the wheels off.

I guess I’m now looking at having the bolts drilled out? Any idea how much this is likely to cost?

Thanks

 

[SaBBz]

The locking wheel nut actually came off fine this time, along with another 2 standard bolts, but one of the others has been rounded. He did it by hand and didn’t have a torque gun. So it’s just a normal wheel bolt that I need to have removed.

The garage that tried to replace the tyres a few weeks ago also attempted it by hand as they won’t use a wheel gun - presumably because things like this might happen!

I should probably have mentioned that I’ve already got a new locking wheel nut from BMW.