lost wheel lockin nut key!

1. blackeyedgirl Frequent Poster Joined: Nov 2007 birmingham Posts: 503

   #1 22nd September 2010, 23:44

   Right my cars been stood for about a year and a half, batterys dead and the breaks are seized, I need to get the alloys of sell before i scrap the car cause they are mint, however I have misplaced my locking nut and obviously the car cannot be moved to take to a garage etc...So how do I go about gettin the wheels off without the locking nuts?
   
   Thanks
2. user_36078 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2009 Costa Del Posts: 8010

   #2 22nd September 2010, 23:46

   17mm or 16mm nut.. Smash it over the top of the locking nut, use a wrench, should come off piece of piss
3. blackeyedgirl Frequent Poster Joined: Nov 2007 birmingham Posts: 503

   #3 22nd September 2010, 23:48

   That dont sound to healthy? lol..I need to get them off without damagin the wheels cause Im sellin them. I dont know what size it is I can tell you what wheels they are..?
4. shaun330 Infrequent Poster Joined: Sep 2010 wolverhampton Posts: 192 saxo vtr p plate saxo vtr 02 plate

   #4 22nd September 2010, 23:49

   yh as said dude what is ther car your scraping
5. blackeyedgirl Frequent Poster Joined: Nov 2007 birmingham Posts: 503

   #5 22nd September 2010, 23:51

   its a 1.1 saxo, same really cause the only known problems are what i stated above, but cause its been standin so long my dad said its probably rottin and needs to go, would be so much easier to sell the car as a whole :/
6. user_36078 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2009 Costa Del Posts: 8010

   #6 23rd September 2010, 00:06

   It dont damage the wheels at all if your careful not to smash a hammer into them lol
7. blackeyedgirl Frequent Poster Joined: Nov 2007 birmingham Posts: 503

   #7 23rd September 2010, 00:09

   so what do i need to do this, just a hammer? it will be my dad doin it and he doesnt have a clue about cars..lol, also the car is on a drive on a slope, and the breaks are seized, he said the wheels probably wont come off, is this right?
8. Mochachino Saxperience Hardcore! Joined: Nov 2007 Guantanamo Bay Posts: 28700 oyster card

   #8 23rd September 2010, 00:15

   LMFAO why wont the wheels come off because the brakes are seized?
   
   As said, get the sock on the short extension bar and hit the socket over the locking wheel nut. Locking wheel nuts shouldnt be done up tight, so it should come off fairley easily.
   
   If that dont work you can pay £25 for some locking bolt removal tool, which screws into the bolt and undoes it.
   
   Orr failing that, jus weld another bolt to the locking bolt head and undo it.
9. user_38486 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Oct 2009 Blackburn Posts: 4739 A few

   #9 23rd September 2010, 09:04

   You can do the way that has been mentioned already, chisel them off,
   Or if you use the search button, there is a link to a tool you can buy to remove them, its from halfords £20ish.
10. user_38486 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Oct 2009 Blackburn Posts: 4739 A few

    #10 23rd September 2010, 09:17

    Have a look in this thread, only few days old
    
    http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...+wheel+nut+key
    
    The tool is linked on there if you need it
11. smiler639 Newbie Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 25

    #11 24th September 2010, 11:51

    I had the problem off the locking wheel bolt done up to tight. Took it to a garage they chisled off the sleave around thd locking wheel bolt then hammered a 16mm socket over it and it came off a piece of piss
12. Quick Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2003 United Kingdom (England) Posts: 7064

    #12 24th September 2010, 12:08

    First thing to do is have a double, triple check for the missing locknut key!
    
    Did you store it in the car - check all the little hideyholes? Or another place?
13. johnnyg_vts Established Member Joined: Dec 2006 Fleetwood Posts: 2244 2002 Saxo VTS

    #13 24th September 2010, 15:54

    I lost mine a while back.
    
    I hammered on a socket that was a fraction bigger than the locking nut.
    
    Popped the rachet in the back of the socket and whipped the locking nut out and binned it, repeat 3 more times and hey presto.
    
    I didnt damage my VTS alloys at all. Just use a modicum of care and its straightforward enough mate.
14. user_46471 Infrequent Poster Joined: Aug 2010 burton on trent Posts: 239 v plate vtr silver

    #14 24th September 2010, 15:58

    http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_165469
15. user_38486 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Oct 2009 Blackburn Posts: 4739 A few

    #15 24th September 2010, 16:04

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by carl300367 http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_165469

    
    Which is in the thread I linked him to a few posts up, along with other methods