Getting a locking wheel nut key

JamoLew

Passive aggressive much and also not very accurate or consistent with their advice
Telling OPs what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear and then causing conflicts with other posters
Gotta love the ignore button (although it doesnt hide quotes)

nicechap

be careful what you post in response to them, posts by bradders and Mrsn on this thread illustrate
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6182547/urgent-advice-on-adult-texting-a-16-year-old#latest

ess0two

sweetsand said:

AdrianC said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

And for that you need to shoulder some of the blame for it. Look at where it began - your opening statement - "It's a 14yo Mondeo. Is somebody REALLY going to be nicking your wheels and tyres?"

It's a simple statement of fact. The chances of the wheels being nicked are extremely low, let's be honest. They're almost certainly a relatively common - therefore cheap - tyre size.

No mocking was intended, and my apologies for any insult that was inferred.

Several posters have picked up on your inappropriate statement which was uncalled for and unnecessary. Statements like that put off people from posting questions. Me and others faily to see the sensible side of that statement. When I first raised it you was dismissive and your tone has slightly changed for the better as others pick up on it but you are still claiming nothing wrong with that.  Simply put you was trying to undermine the poster just because he had an older car and I'm not the only one that sees it like that.
My advice to you is if you can't help, don't post something that mocks the OP.

You have just apologised but did not do it at the start when I picked that up but you are still in denial of what you said and that is the stance you need to change.

Thank you

More tedious responses.....

JustAnotherSaver

AdrianC said:

It's a simple statement of fact. The chances of the wheels being nicked are extremely low, let's be honest. They're almost certainly a relatively common - therefore cheap - tyre size.

No mocking was intended, and my apologies for any insult that was inferred.

Yes it is a fact. It just bamboozled me as to why when i didn't say i wanted to keep lockers on or replace lockers with lockers etc that you/anyone would assume that's what i wanted to do when i said i wanted to get the things off.

And at the same time who are we to say what's desirable. I'm not a thief so i don't know what a thief is looking for and for what reason they're looking for it. To imply that only the most expensive cars and alloys are targeted for theft would be wildly inaccurate. NOTE: I specifically used the word "only" there and not "usually".

Something like the MK3 Mondeo ST is in a cheap budget range these days - that's why i now have one. A few years ago i wouldn't have as i personally don't pay big money on cars for various reasons. I never will do, not unless i win some serious money. Each to their own. I bet my £1.4k Astra has cost me a combined total less than many other people and their new cars in the 12 years that i've owned it. I'm not stupid though - i know that it could've equally gone the other way. It's a chance you take with 2nd hand.

So back on to theft - as it's becoming more budget now which is likely where the 'rough lot' (yes i'm stereotyping) will be also shopping, if they have cracked an alloy for example then maybe they wont want a £2k set of alloys, they'll just want to target a 14 year old car like theirs that doesn't have lockers on. Who knows?

Still, i'll take my chances and i wont be putting any on.

No offence taken either. Despite the opening line, you actually went on to help which is fine. I'll bounce out of this thread now and watch it somehow grow to 10 pages. lol.

JustAnotherSaver

Problem solved.

I was considering biting the bullet with the key. I wasn't sure what sort of damage you could do if you went wrong with a smaller socket so I was going to decide by the end of the day as to whether i went the new key at cost route.

I drove through to get images of the locking nut and while there I was checking on a potential leak in to the car.

As i was rummaging around & feeling the carpet, when my hand went under the drivers seat that's when i found it - the key

All's well that ends well.

JustAnotherSaver

sweetsand said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

Problem solved.

I was considering biting the bullet with the key. I wasn't sure what sort of damage you could do if you went wrong with a smaller socket so I was going to decide by the end of the day as to whether i went the new key at cost route.

I drove through to get images of the locking nut and while there I was checking on a potential leak in to the car.

As i was rummaging around & feeling the carpet, when my hand went under the drivers seat that's when i found it - the key

All's well that ends well.

Many thanks for that as many won't bother reporting back especially something like this.
No one thought about looking around the car, we have all learnt something, so thanks again

Yeah it's something that annoys me with people on message boards. "I'll get back to you" and they never do so you don't ever know what the outcome was. I sure have my faults but at least that isn't one of them

sweetsand

JustAnotherSaver said:

sweetsand said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

Problem solved.

I was considering biting the bullet with the key. I wasn't sure what sort of damage you could do if you went wrong with a smaller socket so I was going to decide by the end of the day as to whether i went the new key at cost route.

I drove through to get images of the locking nut and while there I was checking on a potential leak in to the car.

As i was rummaging around & feeling the carpet, when my hand went under the drivers seat that's when i found it - the key

All's well that ends well.

Many thanks for that as many won't bother reporting back especially something like this.
No one thought about looking around the car, we have all learnt something, so thanks again

Yeah it's something that annoys me with people on message boards. "I'll get back to you" and they never do so you don't ever know what the outcome was. I sure have my faults but at least that isn't one of them

Indeed. Too often poeple seek help via various forums and posters take time out to help and then you hear nothing.
Like I said, no one thought of that.
So thank you again sincerely  appreciate
x

Scrapit

sweetsand said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

Problem solved.

I was considering biting the bullet with the key. I wasn't sure what sort of damage you could do if you went wrong with a smaller socket so I was going to decide by the end of the day as to whether i went the new key at cost route.

I drove through to get images of the locking nut and while there I was checking on a potential leak in to the car.

As i was rummaging around & feeling the carpet, when my hand went under the drivers seat that's when i found it - the key

All's well that ends well.

Many thanks for that as many won't bother reporting back especially something like this.
No one thought about looking around the car, we have all learnt something, so thanks again

What have we learnt? To look for something in the first place?

JustAnotherSaver

Scrapit said:

What have we learnt? To look for something in the first place?

Nope, because i did look for something in the first place.

We learnt to look again later on

Norman_Castle

JustAnotherSaver said:

AdrianC said:

It's a simple statement of fact. The chances of the wheels being nicked are extremely low, let's be honest. They're almost certainly a relatively common - therefore cheap - tyre size.

No mocking was intended, and my apologies for any insult that was inferred.

Yes it is a fact. It just bamboozled me as to why when i didn't say i wanted to keep lockers on or replace lockers with lockers etc that you/anyone would assume that's what i wanted to do when i said i wanted to get the things off.

And at the same time who are we to say what's desirable. I'm not a thief so i don't know what a thief is looking for and for what reason they're looking for it. To imply that only the most expensive cars and alloys are targeted for theft would be wildly inaccurate.

Adrian Cs comment was just rationalising getting rid of them. It was another poster who was confused.

I've got locking nuts on my 20+ year old car and questioned who would steal my tatty old alloys and have considered removing them, I've even got the original nuts, but then an immediate neighbour had a tired steel rim stolen from an aged xsara one night so left them on. If your rims are clean and tidy I wouldn't dismiss keeping the locking nuts. Mine have never caused problems but I also have the reassurance of two keys for them and I never use kwik fit type tyre centres.