Are road wheels removed for MOT ?

Kilty_2

Deleted_User wrote: »

My car only has steel wheels and no locking nuts. Can't say I've ever had a wheel stolen.

That's probably why.

prowla

Last year my MOT garage replaced a bulb; I was happy for them to do it.

[Deleted User]

Kilty wrote: »

That's probably why.

They still have a value. They go for £30 upwards on eBay.

worried_jim

Wayne3765

Deleted_User wrote: »

My sister took the locking wheel nut key out the boot before she took her car to Kwik Fit for the MOT.

My car only has steel wheels and no locking nuts. Can't say I've ever had a wheel stolen.

I have although it was a very long time ago , the old steel wheels off my 2nd car , a Mk1 Escort but I expect it was the nearly new Firestone tyres they were after.

The car was stolen and missing for a week then it was found left on bricks on a nearby mountain.

s_b

Wheels are often stolen but you might not read about it in your local rag unless you the person who had them stolen lets the paper know
This is what i do when i have things stolen at work like er cars mainly or er like all the lead on me roof
As regards all good garages being able to remove locking wheel nuts some of these can be a real pig to get off and obviously you have to destroy them to remove them
The removal tool only on average does 4 wheels too before it needs replacing

atrixblue.-MFR-.

why pug asked for them is stupid, pug lock keys are all the same, hell i even lent my locking key from old pug 307 to someone at a tyre place because they forgot to put it back in after a clean out exact match (was a pug 407 BTW some 4 years younger) why pug asked is beyond me.

bevanuk

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

why pug asked for them is stupid, pug lock keys are all the same, hell i even lent my locking key from old pug 307 to someone at a tyre place because they forgot to put it back in after a clean out exact match (was a pug 407 BTW some 4 years younger) why pug asked is beyond me.

The ones they give on the car may be the same.
It doesn't mean they haven't been changed.

custardy

Wig wrote: »

Forget those wheel locks, when you're there buy 4 standard bolts and replace them and throw the lockers away or sell them to some fool on ebay.

Any thief who goes after locked wheels will have a locking stud removal socket anyway.

If they seize up or are over tightened getting the wheel off can cost a lot of money.

You keep the key inside the car to stop thieves from steeling the wheels - how does that make much sense?

No one steals wheel anymore

More trouble than they are worth.

Someone I know had a Volvo V70 which had trouble with locking nuts, when he got the garage (who overtightened the nut) to remove them, he had them replaced (at my suggestion) with standard bolts, 10 years later that car still has its Alloy wheels intact.

And when this person bought a brand new car, he immediately bought 4 standard bolts to replace the lockers with, that was 5 years ago and that car also still has it's wheels intact.

Not surprising really, as wheel theft is practically non existant. And was probably a rare event back in the day when locking nuts were introduced.

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