Took the car into Kw**fit today to get a new back tyre. They managed to round the locking nut to the point where it's completely stripped and they couldn't get the wheel off. To be fair the key for the lockers was getting pretty rounded anyway.

Now booked into the local dealer to get the wheel off, a new set of lockers and a new tyre.

AND the cars being traded in in May and all I really wanted was a budget tyre to last a month or so. Flipping norah!

One of the joys of using kwik fit, briskoda is full of horror stories as are other sites. I know I will never use them after some shoddy work on an old car of mines brakes, never been back since.

Damn that Sod and his law!!

Ian

Why did you not instruct them to sort it at Kwik Fit? It was not stripped before you took it to them, therefore it's their responsibility. Or are you sending them the bill after the dealer's sorted it?

There are obviously ways of getting a locking wheel nut off, which I would have imagined they'd know how to do at Kwik Fit.

As said though, I wouldn't touch them with a 10ft barge pole...

same happen to me , went to Halfruads and got a Treaded socket, opposite thread, and went to my local tyre place where they knocked the socket over the locking bolt and then used an impact wrench the tighten the socket onto the locking nut. as the socket tightened the locking nut became loose, knock out the locking nut and do the others.

socket was £16 I think and a few pints to the tyre fitters

sorted

The guy at Kw*fit told me they didn't have any tools to remove a stripped locking nut. Oh well, the dealer is fitting me in even though they're booked up til next week.

But are they paying for the damage they caused?

No they're not, mainly because I can't be bothered with the hassle involved. I've got enough going on right now without that.

TBH I managed to near-strip one myself. Took it to a place in Stirling and the guys eventually got it off but it took two of them working together to manually remove it.

At this point I swapped all the locking bolts for standard ones. Don't drive a vRS with anything flashy so the danger of some Ned trying to nick the alloys is zero. (Probably just nick the entire car instead...)

Took the car into Kw**fit today to get a new back tyre.

FAIL !!

Sorry to hear that and hope you get it sorted.I,d make them pay for it TBH.

At this point I swapped all the locking bolts for standard ones. Don't drive a vRS with anything flashy so the danger of some Ned trying to nick the alloys is zero. (Probably just nick the entire car instead...)

Might just do this myself - don't imagine anyone's going to steal my seven year old scuffed alloys and I've only got the car till May anyway.

You could try...

http://tinyurl.com/d88cpmz

And yes, no real need to put a locking bolt back on for that length of time.