Getting a locking wheel nut key

Mercdriver

So the security tip is to make sure you go to car parks with narrow entrances and kerb your alloys to make them less attractive to thieves!

sweetsand

JustAnotherSaver said:

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

Excellent and very helpful  response.
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Scrapit

sweetsand said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

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

Excellent and very helpful  response.
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What? He didn't look properly the first time so how is thet "excellent" or "helpful" or even "advice"?
Are you a bot that randomly generates reposnes? It would explain the content.

George_Michael

Scrapit said:

What? He didn't look properly the first time so how is thet "excellent" or "helpful" or even "advice"?
Are you a bot that randomly generates reposnes? It would explain the content.

Not a chance.
Even the most incompetent computer programmer would be able to program a bot with better logic and responses than are being provided by the poster in question.

forgotmyname

Mercdriver said:

So the security tip is to make sure you go to car parks with narrow entrances and kerb your alloys to make them less attractive to thieves!

Top tip**   Must go and do that to mine.  Great thinking. 

Any tips for steel wheels with plastic trims?

AdrianC

forgotmyname said:

Mercdriver said:

So the security tip is to make sure you go to car parks with narrow entrances and kerb your alloys to make them less attractive to thieves!

Top tip**   Must go and do that to mine.  Great thinking. 

Any tips for steel wheels with plastic trims?

Non-matching trims, held on with cable ties. At least two should be from (different) market stalls, rather than OEM.

JustAnotherSaver

Norman_Castle said:

 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.

Which kind of was my point somewhere in there.

I know that the common way of thinking on this forum seems to be to get a new or very nearly new car and anything less than this is just trash and not desirable in the slightest.

Thing is you never know why someone wants what you have. It doesn't have to be new, shiny, expensive, attractive.

To relate it to topic, Adrian was basically saying in the first reply, it's a 14yr old Mondeo. Nobody on the face of the earth would want to nick a wheel from it. It just wouldn't happen.

But some lowlife may have a mate who has just cracked his 14yr old Mondeo alloy and is looking at having to shell out a bit.

Hang on a sec pal, give me a day and i'll sort you out a 14yr old Mondeo alloy for beer money.

To which the poo-pooers will say that's extremely unlikely which is about as much of a revelation as saying tomorrow is Monday.

After all that, i'll still take my chances without lockers though.

Norman_Castle

JustAnotherSaver said:

Norman_Castle said:

 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.

I know that the common way of thinking on this forum seems to be to get a new or very nearly new car and anything less than this is just trash and not desirable in the slightest.

The common way of thinking on the motoring board is often best ignored.

MinuteNoodles

JustAnotherSaver said:

2) it's booked in for MOT in a couple week so get the mechanic to do it at risk of damaging alloy.

A good one can do it without damaging the alloy. When the local tyre fitters mashed up the locking nut on my Mondeo I took it to a local garage to get them all taken off. He managed to do all four without any damage in about an hour, charged me £70. I replaced them with four standard wheel nuts because 10 year old standard alloys tend not to be on the list of things people will nick.

MinuteNoodles

sweetsand said:

No they don't. Thy can also damage the thread on the spindel and that will be  massive problem.

You're talking utter rubbish. Special tools have existed for years to remove locking wheel nuts, many of them consisting of a hollow tube with angled teeth in that will bite into the outer ring of the locking wheel nut and turn it.

It puts no more stress on the hub or stud than undoing the wheel nut with the key.