broken Wheel nut advice needed

Evening landys
I'm new to these kind of things so bear with me!

I need to take my rear wheel off to change brake pads but when I went to do it I pit the wrench on 1 of the wheel nuts to find it spinning and not loosening. It seems as if the outer casing has broken away from the nut itself. Has anybody got any advice on how I could get the nut off.
I have a 2005 range rover vogue td6 it's the one with the bmw engine

Many thanx in advance for any advice :beer2:

Sounds like a locking wheel nut, on the P38 the outer cover pulls off and you then use a special key to undo it, don't know if the L322 is the same.
Have you tried looking at the owners manual? If you don't have the owners manual, you can download RAVE from the "How To" section which includes the owners manual.

Ronnie2013 said:

Evening landys
I'm new to these kind of things so bear with me!

I need to take my rear wheel off to change brake pads but when I went to do it I pit the wrench on 1 of the wheel nuts to find it spinning and not loosening. It seems as if the outer casing has broken away from the nut itself. Has anybody got any advice on how I could get the nut off.
I have a 2005 range rover vogue td6 it's the one with the bmw engine

Many thanx in advance for any advice :beer2:

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Ooohhhh i think Saintv8 could tell you a sorry tale about this.

Hi thanks guys
It's not the locking wheel nut it's one same as the other ones (sorry not very technical wording lol)

special tool needed to remove as suggested saint will assist he had the same problem you need 1 of these below it is the only one that will do it through experience

As per the picture, you must wear blue gloves - any other colour and the car explodes.

Oh boy - yes that was a fecking nightmare....and as Wil says only the Dynomec Tool is 100% guaranteed to work...

As far as I could ascertain at the time the Dynomex tool was only a trade item and they6 wouldn't sell to me as I wasn't a registered in the motor trade, but if I was willing to drive to them, they would take the nut off for me...100% guaranteed to get it off.

so I drove for 4 hours up to Castleford, West Yorkshire....stayed in a hotel over night, drove to Dynomec factory, 20 seconds later he had got the wheel nut off, bunged him some dosh for his time, then drove back the same day, another 4 odd hours....

The tool is brilliant, the company is Brilliant and the chap called Steve who came out on his day off on a Saturday to remove my wheel nut was brilliant....

I tried, drilling, chiselling, hammering on other sockets...nothing worked, even LR said they may be able to do it, but couldn't promise not damaging the Alloy....Dynomec....fecking aces!

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f10/so-how-totally-fecked-am-i-192083.html

I waited until the missus went out, put a too small socket in the oven at full power. Then bashed it onto the stuck wheel nut, left for a minute, dashed with water, then bashed at the extension bar with a hammer. Was amazed it worked.
Just had time to get the calipers out of the kitchen parts cleaner, before she got back.

sovereign said:

I waited until the missus went out, put a too small socket in the oven at full power. Then bashed it onto the stuck wheel nut, left for a minute, dashed with water, then bashed at the extension bar with a hammer. Was amazed it worked.
Just had time to get the calipers out of the kitchen parts cleaner, before she got back.

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very good thinking very resourceful

Nice idea.

St. Do you think that might have worked with yours?

no it wont work on a post 2005 l322 with stainless covers p38 is a different kettle of fish

donp38 said:

Nice idea.

St. Do you think that might have worked with yours?

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I wouldn't have thought so on mine as mine was the locking wheel nut...this had a rotatable top part and the locking key engaged into slots below this rotating cover....hammering a socket over it would only hammer the socket onto an already revolving top.

The Dynomec tool cuts through this top and into the nut below and allows it to be removed.

As for a standard wheel nut, this may work.....

Needless to say I replaced all the locking wheel nuts with standard ones to try and prevent a recurrence!

Thanks everyone for your replies. Think I'm just going to take it to my local mechanic let him struggle with it, it's to complicated for me lol

Locking Wheel Nut Remover (HD) - DYNOMEC - YouTube

oh & you have to buy the landrover adaptor seperatly

wil2813 said:

Locking Wheel Nut Remover (HD) - DYNOMEC - YouTube

oh & you have to buy the landrover adaptor seperatly

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And it really is that simple....it took the guy longer to open the workshop and get the tool out of the box than it did to get the nut off.....

I cannot praise Dynomec, the tool and their staff enough...yes it took 4 hours to drive up there, a tank and a half of LPG, a night in a Hotel and 4 hours back....but by feck it was worth it!