E30 Zone

Well I bought another E30 and went to go fit test my borbets then ran into a problem. The bottlecaps have a key lock, the ones that you have to have an actual key for. Well on the o/s rear wheel it looks like someone tried to get it off with a screwdriver and now I cant get the key into the key hole. Im new to the country and have no idea where to take it to as I dont have the proper tools at my place. Im a DIY kind of guy and would like to fix it by myself rather then taking it anywhere anyways. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jeremiah

Does the key look like this

Big hammer and a chisel should sort it out cheap enough to buy rether than paying someone to do it

BigBroom- yes the keys look like that.

Town325i- Thats sorta what I was thinking

Drill it in the middle and then they pull out

They are a right pain to drill these are

They can be removed with a screwdriver and hammer quicker than opening the glovebox and finding the key!

town325i wrote:They are a right pain to drill these are

Oh really found mine very easy to drill

just try wiggling the actual locking part with the pliers in the glovebox, I couldn't get the key into mine last night, but moving the locking collar about a bit allowed me to get the key in.

I'm sure I read on here that these were some of the best locking wheel nuts you can get

JWaller360 wrote:just try wiggling the actual locking part with the pliers in the glovebox, I couldn't get the key into mine last night, but moving the locking collar about a bit allowed me to get the key in.

I'm sure I read on here that these were some of the best locking wheel nuts you can get

Glovebox?

BigBroom wrote:

JWaller360 wrote:just try wiggling the actual locking part with the pliers in the glovebox, I couldn't get the key into mine last night, but moving the locking collar about a bit allowed me to get the key in.

I'm sure I read on here that these were some of the best locking wheel nuts you can get

Glovebox?

Apologies, Boot! unless you have a pair of pliers in your glovebox? I don't know I meant the toolkit in the boot, must have read glovebox from somewhere!

Well its just one thats messed up. I guess the one thats messed up ill try to hammer a chisel in it to shatter the locking mechanism. If that dont work ill drill it.