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One locking wheel nut that the customer could not get off in N20

Got a job in on Saturday in N20 for a customer with an S Class Mercedes who wanted to put his winter tyres on. The only problem he has was that he had been able to remove 3 of his locking wheel nuts but had damaged the locking wheel nut key trying to remove the fourth one.

Headed over to him to assess the problem, got to the customer and he handed me the wheel nut key, the key had split in the centre so it would no longer fit. He said that he had just had his front brake pads changed. Looks as if his locking wheel nut had been gunned on instead of being done up by hand. He was lucky that he had been able to get the locking wheel nut off the other front wheel before the key was damaged.

The locking was a McGard lock nut; we carry special tools on the vans to remove locking wheel nuts so I pulled out my tool kit and set to work.

Fitted the tool and tried to remove the locking wheel nut but it refused to budge, this really was on tight. Carried on working on the locking wheel nut but the nut would not budge, they must have really gunned this one on.

So back to then van and out with all the tools we have, this time I would try to split the outer ring to relieve some of the pressure on the nut, after 30 minutes I finally split the outer ring, now back to the original tool.

20 minutes of hammering and turning the nut finally moved, at this point I was exhausted so the customer made me a cup of coffee and offered me some biscuits to get my strength back up. After a 10 minute break it was back to work on the wheel nut. Took another 20 minutes to move it enough that I could finally screw it out.

Now time to put the winter tyres on, the customer has a spare set of wheels with his winter tyres mounted on, so only had to remove the existing wheels and mount the winter wheels, and torqued the wheel nuts up to the correct specification. Luckily the customer had 4 original bolts in the boot that had been removed when the locking wheel nuts had been put on.

So if you have locking wheel nuts that you would like to remove but the key is damaged or been lost, or maybe you want winter tyres, call Hometyre on 0800 783 93 10 or 0333 444 5454 and we will come to you.

 


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