Scottish Elises

After the borders run last weekend I went out to the car yesterday to find a flat rear. It has picked up a pop rivet. However, the tyre held enough air to get me down to the local garage but it turns out that my locking wheel nut is knackered! I cant get the wheel off and Murrays has said that it will take 2-3 weeks to get a matching key! (Key code 883) Has anybody got any suggestions as to how I can get the wheel off? My Lotus is my only car and I'm a pretty stuck without it!

a word of advice given to me by Sir Tut - order up wheel nuts and throw the fecking locking ones in the bin!

anyway, that doesnt help you just now...

not sure of the S2's, but the S1s were a rover part therefore when I had the problem, I went to the local Rover parts place and they had them in stock.

Ross

Surely the garage has a broken locking wheelnut remover . . . if not I'm sure someone on here will . . . it will remove it and it will wreck it, so yeah, order some non locking ones . . . do crims really steal alloys anyway ?

Fd

You should be able to get it out by hammering a torx bit into the hollow on the head of the locking bolt, as they're quite soft (hence why they get knackered easily.)

Then, when the bit has a good hold, unwind as normal.

I believe others have used that method and it worked......eventually.

Last year Kenny had problems with a very tight nut that just got more and more chewed up. From memory it was Stu who eventually got it off, after two hours of hard drilling.

I have a locking wheel nut remover, If you need it I will need a couple of days notice so I can make new bits for it

Trap 125 wrote:I cant get the wheel off and Murrays has said that it will take 2-3 weeks to get a matching key! (Key code 883)

It's possible that someone may have the same key.

r055 wrote:a word of advice given to me by Sir Tut - order up wheel nuts and throw the fecking locking ones in the bin!

Agree, throw them away especially the crap spline key ones and order decent nuts from Eliseparts.


in the meantime, this

Scott M wrote:You should be able to get it out by hammering a torx bit into the hollow on the head of the locking bolt, as they're quite soft (hence why they get knackered easily.)

Then, when the bit has a good hold, unwind as normal.

or this

Dominic wrote:Last year Kenny had problems with a very tight nut that just got more and more chewed up. From memory it was Stu who eventually got it off, after two hours of hard drilling.

Always check your nuts.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will need to forcefully remove all four locking wheel nuts and have them replaced. Has anybody got any suggestions for a garage in Glasgow that could get the nuts off?

Any in the east end ?



Had same prob before and Rover garage had a key.

Have you got AA cover would they not take it off?

Cheers
C

Oh and once while I struggled to find the key in a kwickfit the boys offered to take it off by dubious methods...

MMC should keep a master key. I would enquire with the service dept

Trap 125 wrote:Thanks for the suggestions. I will need to forcefully remove all four locking wheel nuts and have them replaced. Has anybody got any suggestions for a garage in Glasgow that could get the nuts off?

Ah, didn't realise it was the key that was damaged - assumed it was the head of one of the bolts.
Remove the one on the punctured wheel forcibly in the meantime, and order a new key for the others?

It was Drivers in Glasgow who got mine off (similar situation, punctured tyre) so could try them.

ANYBODY READING, IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY, GET RID OF YOUR LOCKING WHEEL NUTS.

Prepared to be proved wrong, but has anybody here had their wheels stolen because they did not have lockers on?

tut