Stripped, filled and sprayed alloy wheels get damaged by nuts

gelk1984 said:
To be fair I’ve never had anyone try to steal any wheels nor do I know anyone who has either so probably don’t even need them, the amount of effort stealing wheels is crazy
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I had once, and I was close to wishing they had suceeded!

I had some rather tasty 17s on my celica (bear in mind this was mid 90s) which were 2 or 3 inches above the standard fit at the time. By 90s standards they were pretty large

Some scrote(s) tried to steal one of my wheels, managed to get the four non locking ones undone then of course found that the locking one wouldn't come off.

I found out the day after that they had tried as i called a mate to say something was up with my car and could he drop round.
I had been out all day at a paintball event I had organised, and it was basically dusk as I left, along with 30 people from work who decided to make progress as it was late.
During that it was clear to me something was up having a vibration that hadnt been there the day before. I would have noticed earlier but I was really early when I went in the morning and didnt go that quick as I wasnt familiar with the area.
I knew something wasnt quite right but put it down to the roads being ******.

IT turned out the next day the 4 no locking ones were finger tight so the wheel could wobble under load. Yikes!
 
dLockers said:
Why would you go out of your way to make your car less secure?
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My reasoning is in post 12 in this thread. Granted, that was caused by an idiot tyre fitter or the previous owner doing the bolts up ridiculously tight. That and the fact that style of lock bolt are just crap. The spline type ones on my older BMW were much better and felt a lot more solid.

None of my cars have wheels that anyone is going to want to steal anyway so I'll take the risk. If they really want some bog standard wheels, they'd have them regardless of lock bolts and indeed, the guy I called out to get the lock bolts off the car in that pic had it done in no time at all with whatever kit he had and there was no damage to the wheel either.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
I had once, and I was close to wishing they had suceeded!

I had some rather tasty 17s on my celica (bear in mind this was mid 90s) which were 2 or 3 inches above the standard fit at the time. By 90s standards they were pretty large

Some scrote(s) tried to steal one of my wheels, managed to get the four non locking ones undone then of course found that the locking one wouldn't come off.

I found out the day after that they had tried as i called a mate to say something was up with my car and could he drop round.
I had been out all day at a paintball event I had organised, and it was basically dusk as I left, along with 30 people from work who decided to make progress as it was late.
During that it was clear to me something was up having a vibration that hadnt been there the day before. I would have noticed earlier but I was really early when I went in the morning and didnt go that quick as I wasnt familiar with the area.
I knew something wasnt quite right but put it down to the roads being ******.

IT turned out the next day the 4 no locking ones were finger tight so the wheel could wobble under load. Yikes!
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That’s scary af man! Some people just don’t give a **** if they harm someone else do they?! Lucky the thing didn’t bend or snap
 
Locking wheel nuts? Behave.... IN THE BIN!

Disgusting things them, and unless yeve got some bonkers rare/expensive Scene Wheels then I'd not worry.

I've swapped all my locking nuts out for standard ones for years now.
Had a tiny little part of one left on a car I bought, had to drill out the nuts and then snap them, then replace them all.
Cost more in drill bits that time!
 
Wtf?! Am I the only one who's doesn't have issues with a locking nut? (Other than finding the damn thing on ocassion).

I can't see how the average Joe is going to be removing their wheels so often that a locking nut becomes a pain lol
 
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