Ive lost my lock nut key... Am i rooted?

Any body know how to get em off?

Im thinkin about gettin some old sockets then hammering them on, to the nut then just takin em off.

Im thinkin about gettin some old sockets then hammering them on, to the nut then just takin em off.


exactly how you do it mate

even better go buy some real cheap one as they will most likely be softer and easier to hammer onto the lock nuts

or.... try some tyre places??

surely their wouldnt to many different fittings....

or just yous a chunky flat head screw driver and a hammer. its not hard to crack the nut open...... not that id know how to do it :shifty: lol

or.... try some tyre places??

surely their wouldnt to many different fittings....


Tyre place suggested this method...

Yeah tyre place, i lost mine of my EF Fairmont and because i always take my statesman there they just did it for free.

A good tyre place will have a tapered serrated socket that will take it straight off for ya.
Lock nuts only keep out honest people and amatuers.

So who has the best 4 stud rims?

lol

yeah, I lost the locknut to my commodore a year ago!

The tyre place took it off for $10. They can do it in like a few minutes!!!

-Daniel

i had povo locknuts on my hilux and the tyre shop striped them when the went to undo them, the metal was soft as..... the pulled out this little kit which had all kinds of sockets and stuff just for getting off buggered nuts

Nothing beats smashing an old socket over the locknut and removing it with the old wrench.. If your asking how to get it off id be doing the tyre shop visit as thats sounds like your best option..:)

Tyre places sell the locknut socket. Just go and ask for one.

Call up the rim company......i mean it is worth it just so you ALWAYS have the locknut. Saves you running to a caryard/tire joint ect everytime you want remove the wheels.

My lock nuts sound different, they have 5 lobes in weird places and you slip a little collar over that with a proper head on it, or is this what everyone else has?

My lock nuts sound different, they have 5 lobes in weird places and you slip a little collar over that with a proper head on it, or is this what everyone else has?


Thats what most are like.. They are the ones you can smash a socket onto easily..:P

I have a simlar question, i bought my car with locknuts already on and no key :redface:

I don't wan't to destroy them so can i buy one to fit? is there that many combinations or will they have one at a tyre shop?

Cheers...

I have a simlar question, i bought my car with locknuts already on and no key :redface:

I don't wan't to destroy them so can i buy one to fit? is there that many combinations or will they have one at a tyre shop?

Cheers...

Hundreds of combinations, probably a heap of different brands. I'd smash them off now because nrma etc sure as hell wont do it when you get a flat.

Take off all the other nuts bar the lock nut, and drive around corners as hard as possible. It'll take it off quick smart.

Haha, no don't. I got lube mobile out to do it, cost like $95 well worth the non scratched wheels and frustration.

$95 lol they can suck it mate thats a ripoff!!!
Lube mobile recently charged my mate $400 to replace the alternator belt too, damn i hate those guys :rant:

I am gonna go down to bob jane he rekons $10 and he will piss them off, but i need some nuts to repalce them with im not driving with 3 on each wheel lol

my key fits my car and another show car whats the odds of that?

anyone want some cheap gold 18's?

cold chisel and a FBH or ****en big hammer

I'd just take it to a tyre place (if you haven't already), and I wouldn't bother replacing them with lock nuts either...... they're just a pain in the *** if you ask me, and like someone else said - they only stop honest people (and what's an honest person doing trying to undo your lock nuts :nuts: ).

If you end up damaging the nut - it could very well end up costing you more to remove. Just be thankfull you don't have a freakishly tight wheel nut. Some might remember my predicament from about 7-8 months ago when I had a wheel nut that wouldn't come undone...... it split one of those magic "lock nut removal" sockets from one end to the other at approx 400 foot pounds of torque and still wouldn't budge. Ended up having to drill the bastard out, replace the stud, and then get the wheel repaired. Can't remember the total damage bill but it was well over a couple of hundred bucks.

I'd just take it to a tyre place (if you haven't already), and I wouldn't bother replacing them with lock nuts either...... they're just a pain in the *** if you ask me, and like someone else said - they only stop honest people (and what's an honest person doing trying to undo your lock nuts :nuts: ).

If you end up damaging the nut - it could very well end up costing you more to remove. Just be thankfull you don't have a freakishly tight wheel nut. Some might remember my predicament from about 7-8 months ago when I had a wheel nut that wouldn't come undone...... it split one of those magic "lock nut removal" sockets from one end to the other at approx 400 foot pounds of torque and still wouldn't budge. Ended up having to drill the bastard out, replace the stud, and then get the wheel repaired. Can't remember the total damage bill but it was well over a couple of hundred bucks.

$50 bux to get a tyre place to remove it.