mikky Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 my lad had to take the wheel of his car yesterday and in the process knackered the teeth on his wheel lock key,no problems,nip down to vauxhall and buy another one,no chance,apparently they are coded and the code is on a plastic card in a black box with the other spare wheel nuts...everything was there except the card with the code,vauxhall wanted £160 to put it on the ramp just to look at wheels,......ended up taking it to the local garage and having all four of them levered off with a long iron bar,....£25 quid for a new set of wheel locking nuts........so if you have alloy wheels check for the code,cos without it you have virtually no chance if you strip the teeth while taking a wheel off,apparently if the nuts are gunned on it can damage the teeth,lesson learnt mikky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil w Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 WOW!! £160 QUID rip off merchants to say the least !! hammer on a hex socket jobs a good one . done it a few times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpy Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 WOW!! £160 QUID rip off merchants to say the least !! hammer on a hex socket jobs a good one . done it a few times +1 failing that just buy a locking wheelnut removal kit ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikky Posted November 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 (edited) WOW!! £160 QUID rip off merchants to say the least !! hammer on a hex socket jobs a good one . done it a few times thats what the local garage did...charged him £20 mikky Edited November 26, 2012 by mikky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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