Wheel Nuts

The message from "gusgus" contains these words:

Hammer the nearest size down of ordinary socket over it and undo it. Don't make the same mistake next time.

If you don't fancy doing it yourself, take it to a tyre and exhaust place. I bet they do it all the time. It took them about 15 minutes to do it on a car I'd bought where the seller had lost the key. I never got to find out how much they charged for it though.

Cheers,

Colin.

That'll be a order for 4 sockets then or one for a wheel nut remover kit. When I had a mangled locking wheel nut last year I had to drill it out.... it took forever as nothing else was working.

I found the best thing to do was drill a pilot hole (5-6mm diameter) and then use a Dremel with a tungsten carbide cutter to enlarge it until the head could be 'persuaded' to separate from the stud with a chisel. That was a Laguna with recessed wheel bolts.

Chris

The message from "Chris Dugan" contains these words:

I've always managed to drift the nuts back out of the sockets.