Problems with a car

Devientenigma

z1a wrote: »

Yes, a key, it'll be a hex. on the outside, but pins or something that locate on the locking nut.

I get the hex but never even noticed pins in mine.

AdrianC

Hex on the outside - so you can use a normal wheelbrace on it.

Pins on the inside - to mate with the locking bolt. Might be "wavy" instead - there's various different types.

Devientenigma

AdrianC wrote: »

Hex on the outside - so you can use a normal wheelbrace on it.

Pins on the inside - to mate with the locking bolt. Might be "wavy" instead - there's various different types.

Ok, now don’t slate me if I’m wrong, but is that what goes in the wheel? If so, it’s the nut to get them off that she hasn’t got.

AdrianC

Upper pic is the "key" - that's the bit that you use to remove the actual locking bolt.
The lower pic shows a selection of locking bolts, to illustrate the different types rather than just "pins".

(They're almost certainly bolts, not nuts, btw)

Devientenigma

AdrianC wrote: »

Hex on the outside - so you can use a normal wheelbrace on it.

Pins on the inside - to mate with the locking bolt. Might be "wavy" instead - there's various different types.

Sorry I only had the bottom pic before for some reason!

a.turner

Devientenigma wrote: »

Ok, now don’t slate me if I’m wrong, but is that what goes in the wheel? If so, it’s the nut to get them off that she hasn’t got.

No, a nut or bolt holds the wheels on. A wheel brace and key takes them off.

Devientenigma

Yeah, it’s the top pic she hasn’t got and the dealer said it didn’t need them, so is that not the locking wheel nut?

a.turner

Devientenigma wrote: »

Yeah, it’s the top pic she hasn’t got and the dealer said it didn’t need them, so is that not the locking wheel nut?

So the key.

Devientenigma

a.turner wrote: »

No, a nut or bolt holds the wheels on. A wheel brace and key takes them off.

So it’s a key for the locking wheel nut she hasn’t got? The dealer said the car came in with one but then the paperwork said it didn’t need one, so let the car go without one. However it needs one to change the tyre etc.

AdrianC

Devientenigma wrote: »

Yeah, it’s the top pic she hasn’t got and the dealer said it didn’t need them, so is that not the locking wheel nut?

That's the key.

Normal wheel bolt...


So what you're doing is introducing a "coded" bit in between the hex that you use the wheelbrace on and the actual fastener.

Every competent garage will have a set of locking wheel bolt removers - they work by chewing and biting into the bolt that you've lost the key for, so it needs binning. But that's not a problem, because you haven't got the key for it...