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Try your local tyre place if they can't they should know where you get it done.

Cheers

I brought an Import R33 GTST and took it in to get new tyres and the bloody thing has locking nuts on it which I didn't realise. Does any one know any way of removing them?

Is it an alan key type or normal lock nut, as other have said you could use a wheel brace, use a smaller socket size and hammer it in, or get the hammer and chisel out if theres room, if your from sydney and buying tyres, we'll take them off for free.

A friend and I removed some from a guys car about a year ago. We just bought a $2-10 set of sockets. We welded a socket to the lock nut and then just used a ratchet to take it off. We tacked the socket in place and then added a generous amount more. I think we needed an extension bar, depnds how tight they've been put on.

One thing to note is it will depend on what the locknuts and sockets are made of. We were having no luck welding the two together but then found something called 'weldall' or something like that. It let us weld together the two different types of metals.

It depends on the style of your rims as to how much room you've got to play with too.

I'd try the supercheap ones people are talking about.. can't hurt, hopefully.

Good Luck

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