dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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picked up my new alloys today so started to fit them. passenged side went on fine. so started drivers side, undoing locking wheel nut on rear, and al the little teeth jus shattered 
so tryed ramming a 17 socket on there, to try and get it off, no joy. so went down to halfords to get locking wheel nut remover, thing was too fat to fit ni the hole to GET to the nut!!
so rang AA and they came 2 have a look, but he said he couldn do anything, id have 2 take it 2 a garage. so gona take it to my local quik fit 2mo (hopefully mate is workin) and can get it sorted!! heres a pic, il show my alloys when i get al 4 on 
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
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im havin probs with lockin wheel nuts to mate 
let me know if kwik fit sort it for you
cheers
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myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
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what happened with the 17mm?
did it slip off or round the bolt?
get a 16on there if you think it will help.
don't just tap it on either; you need to give it full bore with a lump hammer.
17 will prob work if you knock it on further.
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Mistamist
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Registered: 16th Jul 03
Location: Gillingham, Kent
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As myke said, 16 then 15 then 14 untill you have worn away enough metal for the weel to slip over the nut 
Only playin
16mm socket and twat it on with the fattest hammer you can find, try not to use a socket you are gonna use any time soon as you will probably fook it.
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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tryed the 16, REALLY wouldn go on 
got a family friend poppin round 2 have a look 2mo, if not, quik fit here i come
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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17 jus slipped off, felt tight, but weren tight enough!.
its not a bolt shape on the vaux locking nuts, its a circle.
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Icy
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Registered: 31st Jan 01
Location: Edinburgh Drives: Mk3 Golf Gti
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they the trilock jobbies?
am gettin 2 of mine back refurbed in gloss black again
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
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yeh with the 3 lil pins inside, some fucker did it up too tight
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Greasemonkey
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Registered: 17th Apr 02
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I got the answer, save ya self some money do it ya self, i have had to do this 4 times so it works takes about 15minutes.
Instead of whacking a socket around it do this, drill the centre of the bolt where ya 3 holes for the pins are, keep drilling loads of holes round the bolt head till the hole in the middle is big enough to whack an extension socket into, it has to be a tight fit so when ya hammer it in the extension bar with square end gets wedged and then undo
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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or just drill a hole into then fit a screw extractor into it.
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ed_jones
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Registered: 23rd Mar 03
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the teeth went on mine a while ago so i just hammered the toothed undoing nut on to the locking bolt and after lots of hammering and swearing i finally managed to get it off
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leeshez
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Registered: 3rd May 01
Location: Great Harwood, Lancashire
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Try drilling them out?
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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i got a mate who works for the AA, so hes coming to look at it in a min. he has a special screwing socket that should get it off. if not, the AA have a special drill that does it 
but if THEY fail, il try a few idea on here, thanks
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Davidp18
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Registered: 18th May 04
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drillin wont work,i snapped bout 10 drill bits when i lost my lockin wheel key,had to smash the fuck out of it wiv a fook off chisel n then it jus gav way
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