puncture - locking wheel nut not coming off

Wig

Premier wrote: »

That's because the majority are now fitted with locking wheel nuts! :rolleyes:

That may be a factor in reducing wheel theft, but the point is that they now don't even think about stealing wheels not in the majority of the UK. They don't look at wheels for ones without locking studs.

So it is very sensible and perfectly safe to replace your locking studs with normal hex heads, because the mindset of the criminals has been changed now so they ignore wheels.

If I bought a new car with them I'd change them straight away. My old man did exactly that with his new car, as he had trouble with them on his previous car. Basically realised that I was talking sense (I always do ) and he changed them on his previous car and his new one when it was less than a week old.

Premier_2

Wig wrote: »

...you'd have to live in the !!!!!! pits to have any chance of getting your wheels stolen.

I wonder what one classes a neighbourhood that the locals cause wanton damage to vehicle glass with bats, or perhaps more accurately where the locals attract such people to their homes?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=27776829&postcount=8

:rolleyes:

Wig

I would look to see if there was a trend of criminal activities in an area, if there is always crime in an area regularly occuring then it would be the !!!!!! pits, but I imagine only a few inner city areas are like that in the whole of the UK. An area where nothing like that happens for 15 years and then it happens once would not be a !!!!!! pit. Especially if the crime was not wanton vandalism or motivated by theft, but rather vendetta motivated, & brought in by a recent tenant to the area.

blued

I cant believe you're advising people to get rid of their locking nuts because "the mindset of the criminals has been changed now"!

I've never had a problem with locking nuts. They should not be torqued to the same spec as the other wheels nuts! They only need to be nipped up by hand with a small wheel brace. If a garage has been removing your wheels then check they haven't been torqued up - its very easy to do! Just loosen off and nip up.

Wig

I don't see the problem, you change your bolts/nuts and you never have to find yourself in the position the OP and many others find themselves in.

Most cars on the road are not self serviced. Tyre change monkeys just blindly use their airgun as they see fit. Leaving people like OP with chewed up locking studs and overtightened studs. It won't ever happen to me or my family members and I can guarantee that 100%.