Reply With QuoteIs that with the standard issue wheel-replacing bricks and your mancunian 'car keys'? :POriginally Posted by whiskychaser
*running and ducking for cover*
Major Contributor
Snap-on now make a tool/socket that bites into buggered nuts and winds them out.Really works, took mine out.Can get part number tomorrow if you need it.
Grand Master
Is that with the standard issue wheel-replacing bricks and your mancunian 'car keys'? :P
*running and ducking for cover*
Big, Big Time Poster
Not Again!!! Wheel Locks!
AGH when I bought my car I soon discovered that I didn't have the wheel lock key and the p/o couldn't find it. It was not a fun time as I couldn't remove my wheels (obviously) and was fearing the destruction of my wheels, but eventually he found it.
Now I looked in my center console (where I always keep it so I'd never lose it) and its not there! I've looked all over the inside of the car and in every weird place I could think of. Looked through my tools and house (even though I can't imagine any way of it getting there). I'm starting to fear that I might not find it.
Anyone know how the hell to get those things off?? I've heard of smashing something into the wheel locks and trying to force them off. I also hear most shops won't help.. AHHHHHHHHH
Big, Big Time Poster
Didn't someone once suggest..........
getting four deep sockets that are slightly smaller than one that would slip over a wheel lock, and hammering it on hard, then using a drive ratchet to remove it? Of course, the locks and sockets are stuck together evermore.
JD
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I would certainly appreciate that. I've dug through many previously unexplored parts of the car finding all sorts of interesting things including 18 magnum condoms stashed inside the rear center armrest, however the is still eluding me. I want to go about it in the least destructive way possible, though if I can't find one of those I guess I'll have to try to hammering method.
Major Contributor
i think they're called turbo off sockets i've also used them in the past on several cars including my own and they're really good
Big, Big Time Poster
Can you not just drill it out or are they drill proof?
3 Grand Master
Mine lives in the tool kit under the boot lid. Maybe yours is hiding there too?
4 Grand Master
Easiest way to get it off... is standard 12 points deep socket slightly smaller than the lock... as long you can get the socket on it... whack it in with a good heavy hammer and then use a breaker bar to remove it.
Use normal socket... chrome type... do not use impact socket (no bite).
Big, Big Time Poster
Already checked there too (no way it would've gotten there but I checked anyway). I really can't imagine what happened, it just seemingly "disappeared" from the center console. Hopefully I'll have one of those "oh I remember..." moments but as of now, nil.
Hmm I googled turbo-off but nothing came up, I'll go ask around a hardware store. I think I have an idea of what everyones talking about but I spent half an hour online trying to identify what those things are called but couldn't find anything.. you think they'd stock em at a regular hardware store? For those in the US, Sears perhaps?
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