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Title: vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: Overseer on 30 July 2004, 12:49

anyone know much about these?

turns out.. my car didnt come with one..

of course i only find out while trying to replace a tire  ::)

its "3 pin" type one..

however.. maybe some hope...

i had a piece of card with a serial on and took it into vw and they are gonna "try" get me a new one.. they didnt seem too confident  :(

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: marcus123 on 30 July 2004, 12:57

sh!t dude,

i had this exact problem 2 weeks ago.

locking wheel nuts and no damn key.

best thing to do is get a flat screw driver, jam it in between the washer and the bolt and bang it off.

then get a 17" wheel socket and jimmy out the nut, should do the trick ;)

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: tobz. on 30 July 2004, 13:03

Most tyre places kwik fit etc will remove locking nuts but I think they charge about ?15 a corner  :(
Alternatively you could try one of those socket attachments thingys. They have loads of pins coming out of them and they 'mould' themselves to the profile of your locking nuts. Haven't seen or tried one but I hear they are easy to come by and do the job.

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: carrie on 30 July 2004, 13:06

tobz, itried to get one of those recenly and no-one sold them >:( .
oversteer if you live in/near brighton or at any shows let me know i have the reverse thread remover tools for locking nuts

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: tobz. on 30 July 2004, 13:11

Hmmm yeah I suppose if they were that easy to get hold of all the filthy tea-leaf scum would have one and nobodys wheels would be safe.

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: carrie on 30 July 2004, 13:20

might be that places have stopped selling them for that reason.

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: Overseer on 30 July 2004, 13:56

sorry carrie.. i'm a looooooong way from brighton :(

ps.. its overseer not oversteer :P

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: carrie on 30 July 2004, 15:17

sorry, tend to read what  my mind expects  :-[ :-[

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: Mk2Gti8v on 30 July 2004, 15:21

seams like this is a common problem, a mate and i had the same problem on his g60 Corrado, in the end we drilled out the holes and made them a tad larger so the locking nut key from my set of bolts fitted his set.  It was quite easy to do.  We did try the Socket thing (gator grip it was called) we got from homebase but it fell apart and was no use at all luckily homebase decided it was a fault with the product and offered a full refund good luck they didn't see the hammer marks on the bottom where we "gave it a little persuasion" with a claw hammer after it had started to fall apart!!!

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: marcus123 on 30 July 2004, 16:29

look guys the easiest way to do it is as i sed earlier.

tobzman, my local tyre guy does it for ?15 for the job lot,

?15 pound a tyre is a fookin joke.

overseer do it your self, hammer and flat screwdriver.

basic stuff :)

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: Overseer on 31 July 2004, 09:22

hmm.. well i happen to know the stealership has some kind of "kit" for doing this kind of stuff... i might end up working a deal where they do it for not much...

i'm getting a free valet there next week too  ;D

Title: Re:vw locking wheel nut key..
Post by: Overseer on 02 August 2004, 14:21

got it done today...

20 quid for a new kit from vw with key this time ;)


40 quid for tire place to remove old nuts (took em 1.5 hrs at 25 an hour..) apparently they think the were put on with a air wrench thingy... not good!

plus 40 odd for a new tire..


most expensive tire i've ever bought! lol