I know this is a long shot...

[ezi]

I find it hard to believe that not one Ford dealer within South Yorkshire has a master set of locking nut keys!

Lost my key for the nuts on my Fiesta ST a few weeks ago and now have 4 new tyres sat in my garage with no way of fitting them :/ I'm in desperate need of getting them off but don't fancy paying someone £50 to attack my wheels with a chisel. I know there are a lot of Ford people in this forum so wondered if anybody can shed some light on a place within ~50miles of Sheffield who can take them off?

Like I say, a long shot but doesn't hurt to ask

[bungle]

No idea if this is the same for Ford, but it always used to the case (a few years ago) that Audi only ever had 4 sets, so if you lost yours you could just buy all 4 varieties and one of them had to work. Raised a few eyebrows when you wanted all 4 sets, but they always sold them to you.

Hence why most people bought aftermarket sets to complement the OEM ones.

I can see they won't have a "master", but have many sets are there in total?

[ezi]

I don't know really how many exist but one Ford service bloke told me the master set costs around £250-300 for a dealer, I'd have thought at this price it would be a given that nearly all would have a set just for working on cars where the customers forget to take it/lose it.

That and I'd pay them to borrow the socket for 30 seconds.

[crispian22]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DRAPER-89766-4-PIECE-LOC...

[ezi]

Thanks, but I already looked at those and mine have the spinning ring on the outside to stop those being used/sockets being hammered over the top

[Defcon5]

ezi said:

Thanks, but I already looked at those and mine have the spinning ring on the outside to stop those being used/sockets being hammered over the top

The type of spinning ring that you can rip off with some molegrips?

[BoostMonkey]

bungle said:

No idea if this is the same for Ford, but it always used to the case (a few years ago) that Audi only ever had 4 sets, so if you lost yours you could just buy all 4 varieties and one of them had to work. Raised a few eyebrows when you wanted all 4 sets, but they always sold them to you.

Hence why most people bought aftermarket sets to complement the OEM ones.

I can see they won't have a "master", but have many sets are there in total?

Ford have 12 different varieties.

[B6NHM]

I would have thought any wheel specialist would have the kit to get the lockers off?

I had the same problem a few years ago took it to southcoast wheels and with in 10mins all 4 were off.

[elliotff]

This is silly i feel for you mate, i brought my car (focus 2008) amd when i came to take the wheels off i realised i had the wrong nut.

I called Ford (Epsom) and they said it would cost £20 per wheel to "force off" and there would likely be damage to the Alloys (17" Ford) so i had to agreed to agree...

I took the car down and picket it up expecting to have F**K*D alloys and a £80 charge but the guy said he used a master socket and charged me £10 labour for all 4 wheels.

All i had to do was buy some new locking wheel nuts!