Wanted: Locking wheel nuts

Jan 25, 2004 26 Replies
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My brother-in-law had the whole car pinch and the wheel were missing when we went to recover it And a mate of mine had 1 wheel stolen He used to park his car just out of town then catch a bus in on his return a copper was stood at the side of his car "aye aye" thought my mate so say to plod "what's up" plod: "chaps had a flat and gone to fix it" mate: "don't think so" plod : "do think so. helped him take it off so he can nip down the road and get it fixed" mate "don't think so" plod : "do think so" mate "don't think so" plod :"and why's that" mate: "cos it's my fecking car" plod :"oops" turns out scumbag let down the tyre and starts jacking up car when plod arrives, scumbag explains "mi tyres gon flat gorra gerrit fixt" plod agrees to stay with car till he returns to prevent other scumbags kicking it off the jack scumbag disappears forever with tyre and wheel my mate ends up with extra jack I still maintain half the plod in Sheffield are not batting with a full side IYSWIM

So getting back to the OP perhaps not all your wheels would go at once but maybe one could and it would still be an inconvenience

If the locking wheel nut are done up properly you should have no problems (other than loosing the key bit ) it's if they're over tightened the problems start

Andy

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My problem was that the key (LR part!) was poorly cast and has split. Also, all you need to do is buy the one with the correct letter on (there are usually loads for sale at Billing). So where's the security in that?

I could buy A-K for about 15p a shot and then nick thousands of wheels at Billing

Neil

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Aah but would a scumbag have the intelligence to attend billing it only us that get a high from landrovers

I understand the point but most people don't carry loads of keys and it the oppotunist that is the problem, if someone wants your wheels they'll have them no matter what

Andy

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Barcoding, I suppose?

To be honest, I'm surprised they don't.

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Barcoding wouldn't work very well. You can't read one on metal very easily and they don't hold enough information.

Datamatrix is the way to go. You can get a lot of information into

5mm x 5mm (easily enough to hold the serial number and other useful info), you can cheaply (all relative to production volume of course) laser etch / dot peen into metal and it will read even when damaged (up to a point).

I'm sure they would barcode in the supply chain, but a permanent code on the wheels (and lots of other car parts, which is starting to happen now) would have lots of other benefits.

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On or around Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:48:51 -0000, "Andy.Smalley" enlightened us thusly:

this may well be the first actual documented case then :-)

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I have no other info as in names dates etc it came on a memo along with other incidents and accidents I think the notice was entitled "work for us and you'll die"

Andy

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