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  • No worries everyone, I get the message, it’s all her fault, regardless of the dealers fault in the beginning, staying in the paperwork that no locking wheel nut was needed to find it did. She has a lot to learn and she will do it with or without us. She lives over an hour away from home and I was glad she asked for help rather than travelling to Manchester. She’s young and inexperienced but hopefully this has taught her something else. I just think it’s something someone with inexperience could be caught out on, which she was to an extent. However now she will know to push for the locking nut off the dealer and not accept a car if they say it doesn’t need it, or get a second opinion. However if she’s anything like me, it’ll happen again!
  • z1a
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    If it's never had a KEY, not nut, why didn't Ex's dad question it?
  • Aylesbury_Duck
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    No harm in asking for help but you’re still running around for her after the problem was identified. She’s got the information she needs to sort it herself now.
  • z1a wrote: »
    If it's never had a KEY, not nut, why didn't Ex's dad question it?

    Key? Even mine looks like a nut. I’d question the ex’s family anyway and if he was even helping her with her car. Just wished she’d ask us more. It’s an hour to hers and back and it’s pretty full on at home for us. And she’s a workaholic. So not much time but no excuse.
  • z1a
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    No harm in asking for help but you’re still running around for her after the problem was identified. She’s got the information she needs to sort it herself now.

    I agree, but she needs a key not as her dad would tell her "A nut."
  • AdrianC
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    No worries everyone, I get the message, it’s all her fault, regardless of the dealers fault in the beginning, staying in the paperwork that no locking wheel nut was needed to find it did. She has a lot to learn and she will do it with or without us. She lives over an hour away from home and I was glad she asked for help rather than travelling to Manchester. She’s young and inexperienced but hopefully this has taught her something else. I just think it’s something someone with inexperience could be caught out on, which she was to an extent. However now she will know to push for the locking nut off the dealer and not accept a car if they say it doesn’t need it, or get a second opinion. However if she’s anything like me, it’ll happen again!
    A quick look at the wheelnuts would show anybody vaguely experienced that a key is going to be needed. In the two years she's had it, has the car really never had a wheel removed - even once - except for the puncture on the motorway? Has it been serviced? Not much of a service if they've not removed a wheel to check brakes...

    I still can't believe the AA attended for a puncture, and didn't even ask about where the key was before just using the removers on the locking bolt, and replacing it with a straight one. And didn't mention all that even in passing...

    No, Occam's Razor says that conversation definitely happened, but she completely forgot to do anything about it...
  • No harm in asking for help but you’re still running around for her after the problem was identified. She’s got the information she needs to sort it herself now.

    Partly as I have her car. It needs sorted so she can take it back.
  • z1a
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    Key? Even mine looks like a nut. I’d question the ex’s family anyway and if he was even helping her with her car. Just wished she’d ask us more. It’s an hour to hers and back and it’s pretty full on at home for us. And she’s a workaholic. So not much time but no excuse.

    Yes, a key, it'll be a hex. on the outside, but pins or something that locate on the locking nut.
  • z1a wrote: »
    I agree, but she needs a key not as her dad would tell her "A nut."

    I’m her mam.
  • z1a
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    I’m her mam.

    Ah, that explains it!
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