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jamakalbi

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cant cut them off, or not easy.

 

Other way is to knock a socket onto the wheel that is just to small to fit over... this needs to be really hammered on and you may be lucky when you come to try and undo.. Are they the stock McGuards?

 

Also, remove the polystyrene in the boot as it may be rolling around in there! Mine was...

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Some places like Halfords do locking wheel nut removal tools. All it does is screw onto the locking nut in reverse, the tighter you turn the more it digs in. The only troulbe is if the locking nut takes most the room in the wheel hole the tool wont fit :rant:

 

Other than that a specialist would be the best way imo. :teeth:

 

Not to scare you but on one off my older cars we have to oxiceterline (sp) the locking nut cause it was high tesile (sp) steel and hard as nails. This cost me a new rear hub and bearing lol. :bangin:

 

Alexz

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I went to ATS, and they were rubbish, said i needed the key to get it off, i bought the reverse thread locking wheel nut remover, only to find it was too big to fit in the hole of the nut! :bang:

 

So anyway took it to my friend who owns a garage, he prompty took a socket (one with a hole all the way through) and hammered the socket onto the nut, one twinge and it was loose, the only prob was getting the nut off (hence the hole all the way through) it can then be tapped out with a screwdriver from the other end.

 

You do have to hammer them on till they bite though, its a cheap and very effective way of removing these IMO.

 

Dan

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I went to ATS, and they were rubbish, said i needed the key to get it off, i bought the reverse thread locking wheel nut remover, only to find it was too big to fit in the hole of the nut! :bang:

 

So anyway took it to my friend who owns a garage, he prompty took a socket (one with a hole all the way through) and hammered the socket onto the nut, one twinge and it was loose, the only prob was getting the nut off (hence the hole all the way through) it can then be tapped out with a screwdriver from the other end.

 

You do have to hammer them on till they bite though, its a cheap and very effective way of removing these IMO.

 

Dan

 

Yep... and its also how people get nice free wheels... Its almost worth getting 2 different size locking nuts on your wheels..

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Or (and I think this is a much better solution) is to buy a new locking wheel nut key for £14 from Nissan themselves. Take your car in, ask them to tell you what locking nut key you need (there's about 6 different ones IIRC) and order it up at the parts desk. Hey presto, you've solved all your issues in one go.

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Yeh, I tried that but there not linked to the VIN for some reason!! I tried that one but they didnt have the set of nuts to try to find the right one...

 

Just thinking about it I seem to remember that there is a code that came with my last set of locking nuts... perhaps that could be in somewhere sensible like your logbook.

 

If there is 6, how about taking a picture or making a pencil impression of the nut and then post it up and we can all check our nuts to see of they match!!

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I only know there's about six as that's what the Nissan tech guy said to me when I asked about it. They've got a set of of different ones on a single keychain at my local dealer, so they just grab the lot and try them all on your car until they get one that fits, that way they never have to hunt around the owner's car for the elusive locking nut key ;)

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