Jaguar XJ Locking wheel nut removal Watford WD24

Repeat customer called (body work garage) who had just had a stolen and recovered Jaguar XJ in that had no locking wheel nut in the car.

Arranged to meet them in 1 hour after I had finished the job I was on.

Arrived at the job, the front right hand wing had been caved in from a crash. First thing to do was search the car in case the locking wheel nut was in the car, checked every cubby hole and niche I could find but no locking wheel nut to be seen.

So it's out with the special tool, being a Jaguar it has a special locking wheel nut that is only used by them, we carry a special adaptor that can remove these, the basic tool will remove most locking wheel nuts with Jaguar, Volvo, Land Rover and some new Fords each needing a unique blade, we carry each of these.

Started on the first nut (where the damaged wing was) and this came off with no problems, same with the next 2, last nut to do (left front) and it was stuck, probably caused by the nut being gunned on instead of being put on by hand and torqued up correctly. Went to the van and got out the larger and heavier hammer, used this on the special tool and after 10 minutes the nut finally moved. No damage to any of the wheels and all 4 removed.

Put all the tools away and did a check on the condition of all the tyre including the spare, all at 4mm or more and tyre pressures all correct (spare included)

Filled out the invoice, took payment and emails the invoice and tyre report over to the garage.

If you have lost your locking wheel nut key, or maybe damaged it call Hometyre on 0800 783 93 10 or 0333 444 5454 (mobile friendly number) and we will come to you to remove them.