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Sturdybloke
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Locking wheel nuts
« on: Mar 11th, 2006, 5:28pm » |
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About a month or so ago I posted the problem of having just bought a Scorpio but not having the key for the locking wheel nuts. So not being able to contact the previous owner after numerous attempts I decided to take matters into my own hands - when things dont go to plan sheer brute force and ignorance will shine through. So what I did was this:- I hammered a 16mm socket into where the key would go to break the protective shroud open (the purpose of the shroud is to stop people hammering sockets on to the nut........works real well  ) then once the shroud was broken and able to revolve around the nut I then hammered a 15mm socket onto the key itself and hey presto the little b****rs came off took 10 mins all in.
Next job in the forthcoming weeks is new brakes and tyres, well in between working on the Escort, Rover, Mondeo and Xantia  - Craig.
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mr._floppy
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Re: Locking wheel nuts
« Reply #1 on: Mar 11th, 2006, 9:15pm » |
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Boy, you sure do like cars
your cred was fairly sound till you mentioned the Xantia though. oh dear.
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Sturdybloke
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Re: Locking wheel nuts
« Reply #2 on: Mar 11th, 2006, 9:36pm » |
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Yeah, thats inbetween working on other cars as its my job. So you can imagine what my driveway looks like!!! My 5, 3 engines (CVH, Pinto and PSA XUD), Mk1 Orion (in bits but complete  ) in the garage,Mk 2 Carlton (what a piece of s**t, thankfully not ours), petrol mower and various (lots of!) Montego, 418, Sierra, Granada and Scirocco bits 
And oi!! Leave my xant alone  .
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stafford
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Re: Locking wheel nuts
« Reply #3 on: Mar 12th, 2006, 9:01pm » |
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sort of defeats the object really of having these on our cars cos if you can do that so can some little chav s***...and some sets sell for 45 quid in halfords...pointless!!!!
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Sturdybloke
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Re: Locking wheel nuts
« Reply #4 on: Mar 13th, 2006, 10:33pm » |
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True true stafford, no matter what you do if somebody wants something that bad then they will have it. Or wreck it if they cant steal it.
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