How do you get an alloy wheel off without the locking key?

[drivin_me_nuts]

As above. It's an old saab shed with BBS wheels that have no key - It's an old P reg and I need to fit winter tyres to it, but no key.. Any suggestions as to how/who could do it.

[RRS_Staffs]

Its depressingly easy

But even so Im not sure if I should tell you in an open forum

I suspect Google is your friend

[AndrewW-G]

Take it to almost any garagge / tyre place, they will have the socket to do this . . . or you can buy them for around £20

[hyperblue]

Umm, sadly it's quite easy.

[plasticpig]

A Gator Grip socket will get a lot of them off.

[lost in espace]

Just take it to your local tyre fitters, they will be able to get it off.

[LuS1fer]

Bang an old tight socket on. Everyone knows it.

[wolf1]

LuS1fer said:

Bang an old tight socket on. Everyone knows it.

Then realise they have a steel collar to stop this being possible so the socket just spins without undoing the nut

[shirt]

i would have thought a bar and a dab of weld would suffice, but the replies so far suggest there is a much simpler method that i'm overlooking.

[inman999]

LuS1fer said:

Bang an old tight socket on. Everyone knows it.

This or weld a large nut onto it.

[HeavySoul]

Fire.

[Wadeski]

hammer + socket. it will fk the bolts but then....if you really want them off, you wont care.

[philmh]

Ask a wheel thief!

[john2443]

philmh said:

Ask a wheel thief!

Park it in a dark area in <insert name of dodgy area in your town>, hide, wait for said wheel thief to undo nuts, leap out from hiding place shouting Police, Stop!, replace wheels and non locking nuts, drive home!

[Conor D]

Do what this guy did..



Nut is fked!

Hmmm.... What to do?

























































Job. Done!

[AndyT77]

A bit extreme perhaps! I've used the same mobile tyre fitter for years, and when i was in this situation, he was only too happy to meet me and get the locking wheel nut out.

[zollburgers]

Simply split up from your long term partner and adopt a sock as your new found conquest. Mate with the sock for 3 months. Ram the sock over the stuck bolt and then use whatever force necessary to turn the bolt. Any mechanical machine will do, or a gypsy, or ..I don't know...a plane or something? Everyone is a winner, especially your long term partner, as she had nothing to do with the sock at all.

[bazking69]

hyperblue said:

Umm, sadly it's quite easy.

Depends on what type of locking wheel nuts you have. Some are, some really aren't unless you have the proper tool.

[filski666]

got a screwfix near you?

£22 job done.

http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;jsessionid=D3USA...



otherwise you will have to pay delivery and wait a day.

Don't know why people bother with locking wheel nuts anymore, all they do is slow any potential thief down by a few seconds....hardly worth the hassle of when you lose or break your key

[Old Gregg]

Conor D said:

Do what this guy did..

[pics]

Job. Done!

I was on the honda-tech.com GD&D forum at the time that thread was posted up/ongoing. That guy seriously got the piss taken out of him by the regulars on there, and rightly so. God knows why you'd start a thread on a car forum saying that you'd done that.