I Lost The Special Socket For My Wheel Nuts

[dontfeelcold]

I lost the special socket that is needed to remove the special wheel nuts on my car (one for each wheel) What do I do? I will draw up the shape of the nut and post it, maybe someone has the same one that I could use to remove them?

[dontfeelcold]

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[Suspense]

if you go to a tyre shop, they should still be able to take most off.... they arent that hard to remove, if you got the tools

[nF]

normally they just knock a socket over it to remove them

i went into a tyre shop and asked them to remove them they broke 2 sockets on them and didn't charge me

[koleka]

your wheels arnt sitting on a stolen car are they? if they are you should report it to the police!

[Freddy Kruger]

i think snapon sell a socket to remove lock nuts... kinda defeats the purpose of them huh?

[RB30-POWER]

Depending on the design as to what you can do to remove.

The first thing you usually do in this situation is go to supercheap get a 18mm socket, hammer it onto the locknut and undo it as per normal.

If that doesn't work, you can try anything from welding a nut on to cold chisels to try and split the nut.

[Crimpage]

The 18mm socket is the easiest...

I had the same thing happen to me just before christmas, and i needed to be able to get my wheels off cause I was going on a 1000KM round trip drive...

However because I was at work, I got my GF to take it to a wheels shop and for $35 (cost of a new set of locknuts) the guy got them off and put the new ones on... Took 10 minutes

- Crimpage

[sproosy]

that seemed like the easiest thing to do - BUY A NEW LOCKNUT

[someonestolecc]

that seemed like the easiest thing to do - BUY A NEW LOCKNUT

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

They're all meant to be different.

You just go to the shop and buy a new set as someone said, or buy the softest piece of shit socket you can find and hammer it on.

[sproosy]

werd

[Kaz200]

They have numbers on them, if you still have a receipt, copy of the number or say if you got them from Bob Jane or similiar, go in there and ask them to look up the receipt for you (most Bob Janes put it on the receipt for this same situation), and you can order the same locknut.

Cheers

[MacGuyver]

I was in a situation where the lock nut got totally stripped at a tyre place and couldn't be removed by the special key/nut. After trying to bash a socket piece on to it, eventually they had to get a chisel and bash a groove into the side of the lock nut, then use a hammer to slowly work it off!

[scathing]

Yeah. I've lost 2 lock nuts, and the tyre guys have just hammered a socket onto it and then twisted it off.