Meat-Pie-SRI
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Registered: 10th Apr 02
Location: Berkhamsted, Drives Mk4 R32
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feck!!! just started to take my wheels off and somehow i've ground the stupid locking wheel nut key away!!! can't remember what make the nuts are either!!!!!  how can i get the locking wheel nuts off?? i am such a turd!!! 
chris 
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Red_SXi
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Registered: 23rd Sep 02
Location: Dunstable Drives: 52 Plate BMW 3 M Sport Coupe
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Leave the car somewhere in luton, you're locking nuts will be off by the morning 
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glasgow_corsa_c
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Registered: 13th Jan 03
Location: Ecosse
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quote:
Originally posted by Meat-Pie-SRI
feck!!! just started to take my wheels off and somehow i've ground the stupid locking wheel nut key away!!! can't remember what make the nuts are either!!!!! how can i get the locking wheel nuts off?? i am such a turd!!!
chris
hadd the same sorta prob, i lost my locking nut!
u could try and fit a socket over the nuts then hammer it on, thats wat i done cos the lockin nuts were shite-o things taht came with the wheels for free.
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Meat-Pie-SRI
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i'd like to keep my wheels if thats possible?? what a dump that place is!! thanks anyway mate!!
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dcm1
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Registered: 16th Mar 03
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get hold of a gator grip socket from halfords,.
thats what i used
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Black Corsa SRi
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Registered: 25th May 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Red_Sxi
Leave the car somewhere in luton, you're locking nuts will be off by the morning
LMAO
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Nailz
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Registered: 21st Mar 03
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shock em out, it works for me
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dannycorsa c
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wn u say it works for me it sounds a if u do it alot. are u an alloy wheel twocer?
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Meat-Pie-SRI
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ultra_corsa
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Registered: 12th Jun 04
Location: Luton
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quote:
Originally posted by Red_Sxi
Leave the car somewhere in luton, you're locking nuts will be off by the morning
i'll second that   
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
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if all else fails, theres a tool you can get from machine mart, has a reverse thread on it... you drill a hole, screw this thing on, and it'll get the bolt out
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corsaandy
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Registered: 29th Jan 03
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when this happened to me i just hammered at star socket onto the nut then undid it as normal but depending on what type locking nuts you have this might not work
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corsa120
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Registered: 4th May 02
Location: Northamptonshire
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all above are ok but PROPER WAY IS..........
U NEED TO TAKE URSELF DOWN TO THE LOCAL DECENT HARDWARE SHOP AND ASK FOR A STUD EXTRACTER, WHAT U DO WITH IT IS U DRILL INTO THE NUT WITH A DRILL SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN THE EXTRACTER, THEN WHACK THE EXTRACTER INTO THE DRILLED WHOLE AND UNDO JOB DONE
bein an engineer we got rounded off bolts nuts etc all the time and stud extrcaters are only thing id use
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Mattb
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Registered: 2nd Feb 03
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or the easier way is to carefully chissel off the thin metal ring that surrounds the nut, get a 17/16mm socket beat it on with a hammer (carefully tho) and undo... although the above is alot less distructive
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Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
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Now delete this thread before some chav finds it
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