Locking wheel nut & MOT/service

Jackmydad

AdrianC wrote: »

You probably can buy a replacement key - if you have the code.
A dealer may well be able to look up the code if they were fitted from new.

However, it may well be cheaper just to get them removed and replaced - either with new locking nuts or with non-locking ones.

Exactly that. The choice is down to the OP, only they can decide whether the risk of not having the locking nuts outweighs the nuisance factor.
Suzuki (motorbikes) used to be very good at spares, even for quite old stuff.
If anything had to come from Japan though it did take some time.
Might still be the same, so worth asking if a key has to be ordered.

Kim_kim

Found the bag :-)
Got the number and 4 normal nuts. I expect they put them in their when the put the 4 lockable ones on.
Now what?
Suzuki dealer?
There isn’t one handy, anywhere else?

Kim_kim

Woo boo - found the nut :-)

Right one last piece of help. When I had my tyre changed a couple of months ago, it was discovered when the jack came out, that the last time it was out (my son in law) it hadn’t been put back properly.

Now it should be a jack that looks like a collapsed diamond, which gets un collapsed as you turn it.
Plus a thing to take the nuts off and a long bit of steel with a curve on the end - I’m not sure what that last bit is for.....

Anyway my son in law had put the jack back, but the other bits were missing, I looked on eBay and I can buy all 3 bits for £40, but I guess most of the money is on the jack.
Can I buy any wrench to turn the wheel nuts?
Anything know if the other thing that looks like a tiny Shepard’s hook is important?

AndyMc.....

Kim_kim wrote: »

Woo boo - found the nut :-)

Right one last piece of help. When I had my tyre changed a couple of months ago, it was discovered when the jack came out, that the last time it was out (my son in law) it hadn’t been put back properly.

Now it should be a jack that looks like a collapsed diamond, which gets un collapsed as you turn it.
Plus a thing to take the nuts off and a long bit of steel with a curve on the end - I’m not sure what that last bit is for.....

Anyway my son in law had put the jack back, but the other bits were missing, I looked on eBay and I can buy all 3 bits for £40, but I guess most of the money is on the jack.
Can I buy any wrench to turn the wheel nuts? Yes get yourself an extending Draper one.
Anything know if the other thing that looks like a tiny Shepard’s hook is important?It might be if you want to jack the car up.

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Kim_kim

AndyMc..... wrote: »

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Ok, what is it and what does it do?

Is this what I google “extending Draper“ or is there more to it?

Kim_kim

They come in all different sizes :-(

AndyMc.....

Kim_kim wrote: »

They come in all different sizes :-(

https://www.drapertools.com/product/19152/Extending-Wheel-Nut-Wrench

Or if you've 17 or 19mm nuts.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/laser-telescopic-wheel-brace-500mm/13244?tc=RT9&ds_kid=92700023753053007&ds_rl=1241687&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1243318&ds_rl=1249481&ds_rl=1245250&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIh97GxtTZ3wIViBXTCh0pygIyEAQYASABEgLiXfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Kim_kim

AndyMc..... wrote: »

https://www.drapertools.com/product/19152/Extending-Wheel-Nut-Wrench

Or if you've 17 or 19mm nuts.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/laser-telescopic-wheel-brace-500mm/13244?tc=RT9&ds_kid=92700023753053007&ds_rl=1241687&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1243318&ds_rl=1249481&ds_rl=1245250&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIh97GxtTZ3wIViBXTCh0pygIyEAQYASABEgLiXfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Brilliant, thank you I’ll ask the garage tomorrow about the size.
What’s the mini shepherds hook?
Is it to make the jack go up and down?

Norman_Castle

https://www.lockingwheelnutkeys.co.uk/product-page/suzuki


Phone the dealer you bought the car from to ask the price and if they will post a key to you.


Try asking a few of these for a tyre wrench and jack handle.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=vitara+breaking+jack&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l2632.R2.TR8.TRC1.A0.H2.Xvitara+breaking+.TRS0&_nkw=vitara+breaking&_sacat=6030

Anything know if the other thing that looks like a tiny Shepard’s hook is important?

They're very important to tiny shepherds.