Where Do You Keep Your Locking Wheel Nut Key?

[radderfire]

Where do people store their locking wheel nut key? If you leave it in the car then it defeats the purpose, but remembering to take it with you each time you drive is inconvenient.

What do you do?

Rgds

 

[Brian8bit]

Keep it duct taped in the spare wheel well.

 

[-westy-]

I don't have one. Then again, I drive a £600 Mazda with 14 inch alloys

 

[metamorphpwner]

Glove box, but that reminds me.... i need a new one the pins inside are broken on mine. kinda makes it useless if i need to get the nuts off.

 

[Participant]

In my locking wheel nut key holder (small pouch below the steering wheel).

 

[radderfire]

A lot of people seem to keep the wheel nut key in the car, but surely that defeats the purpose of the locking nut??

Rgds

 

[Justintime]

Little tool area above the battery on drivers side in my boot.

 

[Sp00n]

Used to keep mine in the glovebox.

 

[andi]

If they've broken into my car already, **** it, they can take the wheels too tbh.

If they really want them they'll take them anyway, its just to prevent people trundeling up with a trolley jack.

Has anyone here ever actually had wheels stolen?

 

[metamorphpwner]

A lot of people seem to keep the wheel nut key in the car, but surely that defeats the purpose of the locking nut??

Rgds

but tbh who wants to steel a cars standard wheels?
i can maybe understand hiding it if you have good expensive aftermarket wheels.

 

[L0rdMike]

A lot of people seem to keep the wheel nut key in the car, but surely that defeats the purpose of the locking nut??

Rgds

What if you get a puncture and need to replace a wheel?

 

[Justintime]

I've got standard 16 SE alloys on my 320D, if they steal it, it gives me an excuse to get something nicer

 

[godinman]

It doesn't defeat the purpose, it still stops people just walking up to a car with a normal type tool and removing the wheels. If they've broken into the car without setting off any hugely noisy alarm etc then they might aswell just nick the car, surely?

 

[Paul. W]

I remember one of the lads from work discovered he had a flat tyre about 30 seconds down the road after his shift. I noticed him pulled over so I stopped by to see if he needed a hand.

Turned out he didnt have the locking wheel nut. It was convienantly left at home so his 'wheels wouldnt get nicked'

He had to wait 3 hours for his dad to drive over through rush hour traffic and bring it to him. Needless to say there was a lesson learnt there.

Locking wheel nuts are prety much useless these days and will only stop a very amature opportuist thief. You can buy unlocking wheel nut kits from the likes of Screw-Fix which will undo most if not all nuts anyway.

If someone wants your wheels - they will take them. park your car in a garage if possible, and make sure theyre declared on the insurance if theyre non-standard.

 

[Kutter]

If they've got into the car the last thing i'd be worried about is them nicking the wheels.

 

[stoofa]

Mine sits where it was originally supplied - under the spare wheel in my boot.

 

[ruffneck]

It lives in the toolbox attached to the inside of the boot lid.

 

[Witor]

It lives where it was when I bought the car, ontop of the spare wheel in some funky GTA leather case.

 

[rG-tom]

When I had one it sat in the toolbox attached to the bootlid. I've recently replaced my locking wheel nut with normal wheel nuts after having it shear 3 times in the last 12 months, everytime i came to take off a wheel it would shear! had to have them removed with a locking wheel nut extractor the last time, as the metal of the key was shearing even brand new ones with bmw mechanics trying it. They'd only been put on with a torque wrench to 88ft/lb as per handbook, but just having been on for 4-5 months meant it was stuck enough to shear the extremely soft metal

 

[Firestar_3x]

A lot of people seem to keep the wheel nut key in the car, but surely that defeats the purpose of the locking nut??

Rgds

I've shipped mine to America just to be super safe.