Locking wheelnut broken by tyre outfit

Ibrahim5

The only way at the moment to keep your car safe is to change the wheels yourself. I buy tyres in pairs. Pop the spare wheel on. Jack another wheel. Take the 2 wheels to the tyre place. They fit the new tyres and balance them. Bring them home, fit them and torque them yourself. If you buy a second hand car check that you can remove the wheels. The last one I bought two wheels had been overtightened damaging the nuts. I had to hammer the socket on to the wheel nuts before removing and replacing them all. Cost nearly £20.

diystarter7

Sorry, been busy. He ordered a new key nut from the main dealer a few days ago still waiting.
The spare tyre a full-size trye did not have the TPM and will get it changed when the nut/ket arrives.

born_again

Grey_Critic said:

Question is were they able to remove the wheeel/repair/replace the tyre ?

Can't be much of a tyre place if they can not remove a broken locking wheel nut..

Grey_Critic

Years ago there were 10 Ford locking wheel nut keys. You could buy a kit of all 10. Customers often forget to give us their so we simply used one out of the kit. No doubt you can buy kits for other makes.

I would have thought a decent tyre fitters would have these in the toolbox.

Herzlos

Ibrahim5 said:

The only way at the moment to keep your car safe is to change the wheels yourself. I buy tyres in pairs. Pop the spare wheel on. Jack another wheel. Take the 2 wheels to the tyre place. They fit the new tyres and balance them. Bring them home, fit them and torque them yourself. If you buy a second hand car check that you can remove the wheels. The last one I bought two wheels had been overtightened damaging the nuts. I had to hammer the socket on to the wheel nuts before removing and replacing them all. Cost nearly £20.

Back in reality, tyre fitters aren't really a problem. Stuff will occasionally go wrong given enough wheels, time and abuse.
Definitely not worth the hassle of leaving your car with a wheel missing for a couple of days to and using another car to take the tyres to a fitter.

Though it's always worth checking the nuts a few miles after collecting the car.

roddydogs

Ibrahim5 said:

The only way at the moment to keep your car safe is to change the wheels yourself. I buy tyres in pairs. Pop the spare wheel on. Jack another wheel. Take the 2 wheels to the tyre place. They fit the new tyres and balance them. Bring them home, fit them and torque them yourself. If you buy a second hand car check that you can remove the wheels. The last one I bought two wheels had been overtightened damaging the nuts. I had to hammer the socket on to the wheel nuts before removing and replacing them all. Cost nearly £20.

My 6 yr old car has no spare, jack, or even wrench!

Flight3287462

Ibrahim5 said:

The only way at the moment to keep your car safe is to change the wheels yourself. I buy tyres in pairs. Pop the spare wheel on. Jack another wheel. Take the 2 wheels to the tyre place. They fit the new tyres and balance them. Bring them home, fit them and torque them yourself. If you buy a second hand car check that you can remove the wheels. The last one I bought two wheels had been overtightened damaging the nuts. I had to hammer the socket on to the wheel nuts before removing and replacing them all. Cost nearly £20.

Well each to their own, I have better things to doing with my time.

chrisw

Flight3287462 said:

Ibrahim5 said:

The only way at the moment to keep your car safe is to change the wheels yourself. I buy tyres in pairs. Pop the spare wheel on. Jack another wheel. Take the 2 wheels to the tyre place. They fit the new tyres and balance them. Bring them home, fit them and torque them yourself. If you buy a second hand car check that you can remove the wheels. The last one I bought two wheels had been overtightened damaging the nuts. I had to hammer the socket on to the wheel nuts before removing and replacing them all. Cost nearly £20.

Well each to their own, I have better things to doing with my time.

Not necessarily, I often do this because I have better things to do with my time.

Having previously spent an hour or two wandering aimlessly round town whilst waiting for them to fit the tyres, I've found it better to drop the wheels off in the morning and then call in and pick them up in the afternoon.

Herzlos

chrisw said:

Flight3287462 said:

Ibrahim5 said:

The only way at the moment to keep your car safe is to change the wheels yourself. I buy tyres in pairs. Pop the spare wheel on. Jack another wheel. Take the 2 wheels to the tyre place. They fit the new tyres and balance them. Bring them home, fit them and torque them yourself. If you buy a second hand car check that you can remove the wheels. The last one I bought two wheels had been overtightened damaging the nuts. I had to hammer the socket on to the wheel nuts before removing and replacing them all. Cost nearly £20.

Well each to their own, I have better things to doing with my time.

Not necessarily, I often do this because I have better things to do with my time.

Having previously spent an hour or two wandering aimlessly round town whilst waiting for them to fit the tyres, I've found it better to drop the wheels off in the morning and then call in and pick them up in the afternoon.

For that to work you need to either have a full spare set of wheels, or a spare car, and enough space to get 4 tyres in.
Or even if you do them 2 at a time you still need a spare car since the one in question only has 3 wheels on it.
Or you could do them one at a time but then you'll need 4 trips to the garage, and won't get any discount on multiples.

Plus you need to factor in how much time you'll spend swapping wheels out several times and cleaning up.

Ebe_Scrooge

Herzlos said:

chrisw said:

Flight3287462 said:

Ibrahim5 said:

The only way at the moment to keep your car safe is to change the wheels yourself. I buy tyres in pairs. Pop the spare wheel on. Jack another wheel. Take the 2 wheels to the tyre place. They fit the new tyres and balance them. Bring them home, fit them and torque them yourself. If you buy a second hand car check that you can remove the wheels. The last one I bought two wheels had been overtightened damaging the nuts. I had to hammer the socket on to the wheel nuts before removing and replacing them all. Cost nearly £20.

Well each to their own, I have better things to doing with my time.

Not necessarily, I often do this because I have better things to do with my time.

Having previously spent an hour or two wandering aimlessly round town whilst waiting for them to fit the tyres, I've found it better to drop the wheels off in the morning and then call in and pick them up in the afternoon.

Or even if you do them 2 at a time you still need a spare car since the one in question only has 3 wheels on it.

Why is that a problem?  :-)