locking nut problems got no key, how can i get them off.

[MOODY]

i am trying to get my topline of the car to refurb but i have checked the car but i have no locking nut, how is this possible the car is also off road,????

[bmwe30mtech]

Can you get the car to kwick fit? They can remove any wheels/nuts...

[gooner1]

Hammer a slightly smaller socket on and use a breaker bar.Old socket if you have one.

[Chris-W]

Bolt/Nut extactor is also a good way.

[eltel]

you can buy left handed removers for the nuts... think halfords...borrowed a mates to do mine once...they cut into the lock nut and they have a left handed thread so as you turn them anti clockwise...they grip into the nut and undo it!!!

you could bodge it out with an air chisel but watch the alloy

[ag-1982]

is it the bmw locking wheel nut with the key to take the cover off?

[MOODY]

is it the bmw locking wheel nut with the key to take the cover off?

no its not the genuine bmw locking nuts its the ones that have three cuts around them, i have tryed smacking a socket on no joy, i shall have to take the suspension legs of and take them to kwik fit.

[Brianmoooore]

, i shall have to take the suspension legs of and take them to kwik fit.

Seems a bit extreme.
I've always managed to remove them somehow, including a set that had been way over torqued. I'm not familiar with these particular bolts that you have, but I've used various methods - hammering a socket over them, grinding down and tapering a short fat bolt to hammer into the BMW female splined ones, grinding flats on to fit a socket, welding a bolt on, welding lumps onto the side of the heads to grip a socket, and using little bits of steel rod to fill grooves in the head and again fit a socket.

[ajay31]

use the locking wheel nut removers that screw over. tap on with hammer and reverse tighten with breaker bar to remove, try a search for them on flea bay

[dave525]

at work if all else fails we build up weld with a mig welder on the bolt head until it is level with the outer face of the wheel.then saw off a wheel bolt at the base of the thread and weld it on.this always works but you can mark the wheel if youre not careful.worst case is you have to have the wheel repainted.chiseling etc usually damages the rim.

[Bailey]

Its a shame your not a bit nearer me, you could just leave them in Nunsthorpe (local estate) over night and in the morning your problem would be solved!

[FBF]

bunch of amatuers!

go get one of these in halfords. every wheel thiefs mate

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