We bought a 206 for the wife, but the tool we bought it from neglected to inform us that he had lost the locking wheel nut socket.

 

As a result we managed to get three off and replace them, but the front drivers one will not budge.

 

We spent the whole of yesterday trying to remove it, hamering a socket on and trying to twist it, but it wouldn't budge. We split four sockets and wrecked a load of others, we had to hammer the head of it down with a chisel and then smash a socket on to it each time but it just wouldn't move.

 

I got my dad to drop it in to a couple of garages today, one tyre place worked on it for an hour or so and gave up, they took it to another place, and they kindly worked on it for another two hours trying to remove it, they busted three locking nut removing tools, and said they had never seen anything like it, result is, it's STILL on the car.

 

They advised the only option would be to cut away the alloy, which I do not want to do, I don't see how thats going to solve getting the nut out.

 

I could try drilling I guess, but I know a hand drill won't be man enough and it would just burn out the drills.

 

Can anyone give me some advice or any recomendations on what / where might be able to sort this for me?

 

 

Cheers guys.

have you tried hammering on an impact socket- should take a bit more abuse!!

pretty certain you can get tools designed just for removin locking wheel nuts. What type are they?

did they heat up the nut, usually helps when trying to loosen them.

Cheers for the replies.

 

I've got some impact sockets, they are a lot chunkier, perhaps I should try one, the problem is the round part to get a socket on is only around 10mm so not a lot to grip.

 

The garage today tried some locking wheel nut removing sockets and broke three, not sure what type though as I wasn't there. The locker has three small lugs and a round 10mm centre guiding bit.

 

I don't think they heated it up, I did think of that last night but wasn't confident putting my torch to it as it's so deep in the alloy, any ideas on how to heat it up without killing the alloy?

 

I just called another place and they recomended welding a socket on to the nut, sounds like it might be a good plan.

 

Cheers!

have you tried hammering on an impact socket- should take a bit more abuse!!

 

Yup, get one of them on it and give it hell with an air gun!

 

Failing that, go buy a Gator universal socket, I've removed loads of locking wheel nuts with one :x:

welding a socket on sounds like your best option tbh, judging by attempts that previous peeps have made

 

what sort of room have you got to work with? is the nut recessed into the wheel at all? give us a pic...

I would have suggested trying to weld a 12mm or 16mm square bar on and getting a big trusty adjuster on it.

 

The heat from welding also helps ;)

If its a bolt type lock then a hand drill would work, i drilled the four heads of my BMW locking nuts, once the head has come off just remove the wheel and the threaded part should just unscrew by hand.

Iv found also by tightening all other nuts up before starting it can help.

Give a set of bolt grip nut removers a go (sounds painful, but really isn't if used in the way they were designed!!) - My mate borrowed mine to remove the locking wheelnuts from his tvr...........Successfully, I might add!

Cheers for the ideas, will see how I go and will update!

I had this problem many years ago and I just put a masonery drill bit into an electric drill (not the rechargable battery variety but a proper mains one) and just drilled the b@stard until there was no tension holding it tightly in place.

 

It just took a simple pair of long nosed pliers to remove it after 15 minutes of drilling!!

 

Richard:D