Wheel nut questions

[Porker]

Hopefully a couple of easy questions to answer:

i) Will the wheel bolts for an alloy wheel-equipped car be suitable for securing steel wheels (used for our winter tyres)?

ii) Should the car (a March 2010 Octavia) have come with a tool for the removal of the plastic caps from the wheel bolts? I can't see anything in the toolkit in the spare wheel to remove these but the manual mentions something to do that job.

regards

P.

[TrevorB33]

yes and yes the plastic caps should have a removal tool in the spare wheel kit its a little u shape black plastic puller, if not a pair of long nose pliers will do the job

[Gizmo]

This is the tool (this is almost the actual size):

providing the steel wheels are genuine VAG wheels then the OE bolts will be fine, if you use merc etc wheels then the bolts needed may well be different.

[Porker]

Thanks guys - that answers both questions, since the wheels are genuine Skoda, purchased with the car when it was new for this purpose.

regards

P.