Anyone in Citroen parts?

[Clarkey2110]

Hi, basically hoping someone can help me, via a previous thread I got given a code for my locking wheel nuts, its FF07077AT7, can anyone make any sense of this code at all? I've searched google etc for the actual code, but can't find anywhere I can buy one. The code on the keys seems to be a 4 digit code, for example http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PEUGEOT-CITROEN-LOCKING-...

Thanks in advance for any help

[Qwert1e]

Are your wheels seriously at risk?

I'd be tempted to get the locking nuts removed at the dealer and replaced with normal nuts. [Or get a complete new locking set]

[Clarkey2110]

No not at all, I am just looking for a more cost effective way of removing them, Citroen want £50 plus Vat for a key, with a week minimum wait, and god only knows how much to remove them, whereas they are for sale on ebay for much less. I either need to get a new key or these ones off, then will replace with either normal nuts or mcguard locking ones.

[megamaniac]

I have been lucky in the past and knocked a socket onto the round pin in the centre and they have undone.

[Qwert1e]

Clarkey2110 said:

No not at all, I am just looking for a more cost effective way of removing them, Citroen want £50 plus Vat for a key,

That sounds a bit cheeky - BMW will whip off a set of lockers for 50p [I exaggerate for effect]. Believe AA and RAC can also do it.

[vladcjelli]

I always wondered if a socket like this would do this kind of job.

http://t.homedepot.com/p/Gator-Grip-3-8-in-Univers...

The pins should fit into the holes, wherever they are on the wheel nut?

[Clarkey2110]

Thanks for the advice so far, is there an english site that sells that special socket you linked? Looks interesting. I asked the RAC about it but they said you have to be a member, and so on, so would likely cost more than actually just buying the key from Citroen. I would imagine Citroen would charge an hours labour or similar, which at a dealership is likely to be even more than the key

[vladcjelli]

I seem to remember some kind of QVC infomercial flogging them over here, but didn't have time to search properly earlier.

Still haven't checked, but usually the answer to every such question is either amazon or ebay.

Also, really not sure if they would work, just a thought which has nagged at my brain for a while now.

No, I am not considering a life of alloy wheel crime.

[megamaniac]

Look on ebay for locking wheel nut remover.

[Clarkey2110]

Haha nice one, looking online I have found it available on eBay, though as someone said on a review I was looking at, if the nut has a stud protruding from it, the little pins are going to have to retract to go over that and more than likely wont be long enough to reach the actual nut, worth a try if nothing else works though so thanks alot

[megamaniac]

If you bash a socket onto the stud it will either shear or come undone.

[Clarkey2110]

That was the plan, if it shears off at least I'll have better access to the actual head, worth a go at least, cheers