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Locking wheel nut help

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Hi, was hoping someone can help. I'm looking for a locking wheel nut as when I purchased my can the owener failed to give it to me. There's no number on them from what I can see and I need to change my tyres ASAP. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

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You can buy wheel nut removal tools.or have a word with your local tyre place.
Are you certain it's not in the van someplace.
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That looks a tricky one but search for a locking wheel nut remover and see what you can get. You might be able to screw a reverse thread remover into that central hole and spin it out.

I've heard people say you can weld a new bolt onto the top but I guess that would cosmetically damage your wheel.

Phone round a couple of local tyre dealers, They probably have the tools and can do it for you.
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R0B wrote:You can buy wheel nut removal tools.or have a word with your local tyre place.
Are you certain it's not in the van someplace.


It's not in the van unfortunately. I've stripped
It right back to carpet line it all. Can't find it anywhere. I noticed that vw heritage do a
Set of Locking nuts that look the same. I don't know if to take the plunge and buy a set. Hoping that the key will fit

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Hi, had the same problem a cple of years ago with same type of locking nut
We used a an angle grinder spanner that used to remove the disc for changing them over.
We removed the origanl pins from the spanner and re-drilled and welded two new smaller pins in there place
Took a bit of fiddling to do it and a can of wd40 but removed them in the end with no damage.
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Get a double hexagon socket, beat it on the centre, undo the bolt :)

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As above, I took a car to my local tyre centre to have a locking wheel nut removed, I thought they would use some fancy tool, but they just hammered a socket on and hey presto.
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I took a punt and ordered a peugoet locking nut set off eBay as it was only £5 posted. Although it don't look as if all the pins will line up. I'm hoping 3 of them do and I can grind the 4th off and hopefully make it work. If not ill just pop them back on eBay

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I think I'd weld a big nut on it.
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Or hammer a socket on it
My local garage got mine off, with a FB stud extractor.
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