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Wheelnuts
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:05 pm
by sja
I'm looking for the extractor tool and key to remove my locking wheenuts, the hand book say under a grommet in the windscreen buttress, well I can't find it! if anyone can enlighten me please do.
Is the key unique or will any S1 key do?
After the advice about my P Zeros I intend to replace my tyres sooner rather than latter. Can Yoko Advans only be ordered throw MMC (Lotus dealers) ?
Stephen
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:11 pm
by robin
Open the bonnet (handle under dash in driver's side footwell).
Find the spring clip where the bottle of tyre weld is/was.
There should be a circular object poked in a hole there, possibly with a red blanking cap pressed into it also.
Pull the tube out, remove the red blanking plug and out should pop your key.
Use the tube as a removal tool to pull the cover off the security wheel nut.
NEVER put the tube over any of the normal wheel nuts - you will 99% likely break the tube trying to get it off again
There are a few dozen different key combinations, so no, they are not unique, but no, not any old S1 key will do.
Once you have removed the nuts, put them somewhere safe and replace with a new set from eliseparts.com - the standard ones are rubbish and the locking nut is useless (it's easy to get off with the universal tools, and the hole pattern in the elise is not common, so it's not like the wheels will fit your nova ...).
Cheers,
Robin
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:16 pm
by sja
Off to look now thanks
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:16 pm
by jj
Robin described it better than I could, so heres a photo
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:21 pm
by sja
I've got the nut but no long tube to remove the cap. 50% better than I was 10min ago
thanks
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:27 pm
by jj
The tube is probably what was holding the nut in place (you need to pull the whole thing out) as from memory, there would be nothing to hold just the nut in place (which there was, if you have found the nut).
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:30 pm
by sja
The nut was sitting in the red cap with nothing below it, guessing the tube bit has dropped off
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:41 pm
by s333fee
you might not have caps on the locking nuts, if you do and you cant get them off then a thin screw driver and a hammer will do to punch a hole throught the cover then pull off the covers. Then they will simply pull out like the bolts.
S333FEE Support team, not S333FEE
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:25 am
by Matelotman