Damn locking wheel nuts

[JamesT5]

Headed off this morning to visit the Mother in law in Lutterworth.
Coming off the M2 onto the M25 and the steering wheel started juddering.
Slowed right down and pulled into the Holiday Inn Express at Dartford.
Slow puncture.
Well I thought I have one of these foam repair kits in the car I will try that.
Unloaded the foam into the tyre. Went to pull away and the tyre basically exploded!
Got the spare wheel out, thought I will put the spare on and get to the nearest Kwik fit.
No way. The locking wheel nut refused to budge.
At this point I called the AA.
AA guy tried his upmost to get the locking wheel nut off, to no avail.
Got the car towed to the local Volvo garage, and hopefully they will be able to get the nut off tomorrow.

What a day!

Dave

The Americans just get their gun out and shoot each one until it comes off. Ok, only kidding!

[p fandango]

I thought I was done with this after replacing all the locking wheel nuts with normal nuts and getting 2 new front tyres.
Now one of the wheels with the new tyre is losing air.

Took it to Kwik fit who said there was no slow puncure but the wheel required a refurb/repair. I could see the air bubbling out uncer the water on the rim. Now got it booked in on Wednesday for a refurb/repair at £55+vat. I have not kerbed the car so I assume they damaged it when replacing the tyre at the Volvo dealers (not going to ba able to prove that). I am hoping I will have this car running as I would like soon!

i've had alloys losing air thru the metal before, can't remember if they were aftermarket or Volvo

[zip929]

i've had alloys losing air thru the metal before, can't remember if they were aftermarket or Volvo

Had the wheel repaired and it is now Ok.

[JUDGENINJA]

All I'll say is ....locking wheel nuts are pointless... Any decent thief will have them
Off anyway. Any car once the wheel nuts have destroyed themselves (yep used the socket and hammer method on the 850, 1socket for 4wheels). I put normal bolts back on.

[zip929]

All I'll say is ....locking wheel nuts are pointless... Any decent thief will have them
Off anyway. Any car once the wheel nuts have destroyed themselves (yep used the socket and hammer method on the 850, 1socket for 4wheels). I put normal bolts back on.

No locking wheel nuts on mine anymore.

[M-R-P]

Back again.

I decided to check that my lockers were not siezed prior to puting the car into the main dealers on wednesday.

After the saga with the genuine volvo locking bolts, I let the tyre garage fit some top quality aftermarket ones. However, yet again the garage put them in too tight, and didn't use any copperslip. I managed to get 3 out before the key mangled itself. I'm now left with one bolt remaining and I've just called it a night after hammering various sockets over it and even trying to weld sockets to it.

Turns out it's top quality aftermarket because if you havent got the key, it's not ocming out. I believe they are very specifically designed to resist Mr. Peacheys preferred method, and are made of a steel alloy that doesnt weld too well.

Will re-conviene tomorrow.

What size socket did you use?
Gotta be 3/4 wrapped up with lots of tape.

[Harvey]

What size socket did you use?
Gotta be 3/4 wrapped up with lots of tape.

Martin I think your tints ,wheels,headlights look cool in your new banner.

[stephenevans99]

Martin I think your tints ,wheels,headlights look cool in your new banner.

I thought it'd been stripped for scrapping

[Brett855tdi]

The Americans just get their gun out and shoot each one until it comes off. Ok, only kidding!

The Americans are too busy trying not to shoot them selves!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=RHdg3yeU2iY

[LeeT5]

Are there any good indies in Kent?

SW Autos, Biddenden, Kent.

For the record, i took my lockers off a year ago. Have spacers now too so they can't be used anyway.