Removing locking wheel nuts

Shaw

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To cut a long story short my car was broken into yesterday and the only thing that was stolen was the locking wheel nut key. As it is was just the standard locking wheel nuts the car came with is it likely that Vauxhall will have a master key of some form to get the current locking nuts off, if not is there anyway to get them? Also what locking wheel nuts would people recommend for replacement?

Any advice regarding the above would be greatly appreciated as I want to get things sorted before the scrotes come back for the wheels and tyres.
 
Just get some cheapo sockets (lots of points, NOT flat edges) and smack them on with a hammer, then take off the locking nut as normal.

This picture never gets old :)

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either the socket trick or go to your nearest dealership, a garage lost my locking wheel nut and it was something like £12 for a new one from vw, with a free bolt, which was handy as I'd destroyed one taking it off :D
 
Thanks for your help, I will give them a call and if they can't help it gives me a good reason to get the hammer out.

Just to find out what bolts to replace with as seem as I need to buy a new set there may be better out there than the Vauxhall ones.
 
to be honest unless you have wheels worth like 2 or 3 grand I don't see the point in locking nuts these days, thieves don't bother with it since alloys are so cheap now and they can't generally tell which ones are the expensive ones :)
 
The dealership should be able to remove them. I had to do exactly this when my locking key broke and i had to get a new set.
 
Jez said:
The dealership should be able to remove them. I had to do exactly this when my locking key broke and i had to get a new set.
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but they'll charge you the earth

last time i asked i was quoted £7 a wheel ffs

i was like, for that money ill buy the cheapest softest socket set i can find and do it myself.
 
Mercedes did it free of charge for me. There wasnt even a suggestion of a bill, one of the service chaps just came out and we had a little chat while he removed them in about 5 mins total.
 
Jez said:
Mercedes did it free of charge for me. There wasnt even a suggestion of a bill, one of the service chaps just came out and we had a little chat while he removed them in about 5 mins total.
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guess it depends upon the bloke working there. All it takes is one jobsworth and before you know it, its £30 for 5 mins work to remove some nuts.
 
MrLOL said:
but they'll charge you the earth

last time i asked i was quoted £7 a wheel ffs

i was like, for that money ill buy the cheapest softest socket set i can find and do it myself.
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Audi came out with a big box of them and sold me one for about £4 as a replacement - even better tbh
 
This might sound like a leftfield recommendation, but when this happened to me on my Fiat Coupe, I took it to Kwikfit.

They had a cutting socket which got it off no problem. They didn't charge me, although I slipped the guy who did it a tenner.
 
I have only recently got over a Locking Wheel Nut issue and for me it certainly wasn't pretty.
Basically I had a rounded off locking nut and then got a puncture on that wheel.
Roadside assistance spent half an hour using "tricks of the trade" to try and get it off and failed.
It took my local dealer about 2hrs to remove it.

As far as I'm aware no such thing as a "master key" and it can take weeks for a replacement key to arrive.

Hope you manage to get everything sorted.
 
stoofa said:
I have only recently got over a Locking Wheel Nut issue and for me it certainly wasn't pretty.
Basically I had a rounded off locking nut and then got a puncture on that wheel.
Roadside assistance spent half an hour using "tricks of the trade" to try and get it off and failed.
It took my local dealer about 2hrs to remove it.

As far as I'm aware no such thing as a "master key" and it can take weeks for a replacement key to arrive.

Hope you manage to get everything sorted.
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there isn't single master key but most will have a box of master keys, when I went to VW to get mine they had about 30 or 40 of them, luckily it was the third one the guy tried :D and then took about 3 days for a new one to arrive for me once they had the code for which one my car needed, not bad at all. Oh yea it was also a learning curve to note down the code on your locking nut to save a lot of hassle should it go missing, as the only place the code is recorded is on the nut itself...
 
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