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Dave Kendall

New Member

• Jul 12, 2007

• #1

Do you have Land Rovers own locking wheel nuts. If you've got them, take them off now and fling them.
Got a flat today so set about the wheel change in the pouring rain. The locking wheel nut key slipped nicely on to the locking nut and then I heaved on the wheel nut removing tool. The wheel nut is such soft steel that it just gave and gave until the locking wheel nut key wouldn't grip any more.
Had to send for the RAC who had some special locking wheel nut style key that grips and bites in. Nut then came off easily.
Yet anothet cheap gimmick from Land Rover who's aim in life is to cut corners at every opportunity.

 

hughesy

Well-Known Member

• Jul 12, 2007

• #2

Had an astra a while back with locking nuts on and I didn't have the key. Broke 2 snap-on sockets on the buggers before getting them undone, what a bastard of a job.

 

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Dave Kendall

New Member

• Jul 12, 2007

• #3

I think snap on make a special device to go on a locking wheel nut and remove it with out a key.

 

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CharlesY

Well-Known Member

• Jul 12, 2007

• #4

Moral:

1. take all your wheel nuts off one day, one after another, and copper-grease the studs, then refit the nuts.

2. tighten them up using a torque spanner.

3. carry a two-foot Samson bar and a 27mm socket.

 

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Dave Kendall

New Member

• Jul 12, 2007

• #5

The locking wheel nuts where on at the correct torque but the problem with them is that they are made of such crappy steel that the slightest pressure and they disort, rendering them hard to remove with the locking wheel nut key.

 

hughesy

Well-Known Member

• Jul 13, 2007

• #6

Dave Kendall said:

I think snap on make a special device to go on a locking wheel nut and remove it with out a key.

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That's as maybe but if you haven't got one They weren't my snap-on tools by the way

 

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ZebraDriver

Member

• Jul 13, 2007

• #7

I found that the locking wheel nut key thing split and broke (like the one in the article in LRO a few months back). I turned up a ring to fit around the outside of the tool to keep it together and pressed the tool into it.
I also found that the wheel nuts were rusting under the stainless covers it was begining to be enough to stop the wheel key from fitting over the nut. I spent some time removing the nuts, one at a time, removing the cover, cleaning and copperslipping everything in sight. Works though 'cos I can now get all of the nuts off easily

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