Hey all,

 

I committed a cardinal sin when I went to buy a rubber mallet after trying and failing to take my wheels off to change them.

 

I no longer have a locking wheel nut key. Does anyone in the Reading area have a key I could try to use to take them off?

The key looks a bit like a cog, and obviously the nut is the reverse. Car is an 04 Octy 1 VRS.

 

 

I can drive to you. I will be forever grateful and beer could be forthcoming.

Might be a bit difficult, as the keys vary from car to car.

What graham said there's about a dozen different ones.

I'd get down the nearest VAG dealer and go beg to the service manager or drive round the back and ask one of the techs to give up you a hand for a fiver.

I know my tame VW master tech said they'd normally find the key and remove the nuts for free IF you purchased a new set of them.

He was tame enough to let me borrow the full set (or at least what was leftover of it) overnight after I lost mine at Oulton.

I'm not certain but I thought I read somewhere that there are 11 variants. 

Go to main dealer and order a new one and get them to undo the ones on the car

while you are there..... They should have a full set...  Should have anyway...

Thanks guys, I thought that might be it.

I was hoping to get the wheels changed back to my Spiders, but then it wouldn't come off, put the bolts back in and now my locking wheel key is somewhere between Aldi where I got a trolley jack and screwfix where I bought a rubber mallet.


I'll call Skoda on Monday. They were closed already today when I phoned.

The locking wheel key was lost in between Aldi and Screwfix, did it fall out of the car!?

The locking wheel key was lost in between Aldi and Screwfix, did it fall out of the car!?

No... it fell off the bolt I'd left it in on my NSR wheel.

Hello Hobbit, I've no idea how far it is from Aldi to Screwfix, but is it worth you walking the route (in daylight), carefully checking the gutter......just in case it hasn't rolled down a grating or got carried away in a big tyre tread?  I re-found a cooling system expansion tank cap that I'd not refitted properly before driving 4 miles to MOT (Fiesta 1.4tdci), tester passed the car but noted the missing cap!

Was on a little-used section of former A1 route, at a small roundabout, spotted it on the way home!!  Lucky or what!

Good luck

Richard

I put it back on at home, then drove away. It could be on any part of about 4 miles of central Reading roads.


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My dad did the same thing a week and a half ago with his, left it on at home and went to the garage with it on the car then came back and noticed it was missing. Looked all down the road and up the next one and eventually found it where he backed out of the parking space at the garage!

I looked along the first part of the route, couldn't see it. The roads here are so bumpy it could be anywhere along those 4 miles or so.

you can buy lock nut remover kits

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/US-PRO-TOOL-7pc-1-2-drive-twist-socket-set-wheel-lock-nut-remover-removal-/331122638049?pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item4d18727ce1

 

they just act like an outside version of a screw extractor, i tried these when i bought my wife's Altea, only to discover there was no lock nut with the car, they just chewed the outside of the bolt head to bits and didn't shift, the other bolts took a 3' breaker bar to remove on the others i may add (and some jumping on the end of that)

 

the option i ended up using in the end was to drill out the bolt, roughly a 6mm drill through the middle of the bolt then a 11.5mm into the middle of that, undo the other 4 bolts then rock the wheel until the head pops off, then used the screw extractor and a blowtorch to remove the stub left on the wheel, all this is a little extreme but if your bolts have been off recently the removers will probably do the job, obviously there will be cheaper ones around that was just the first on that popped up on ebay, the set i used was from halfords

 

Pete

you can buy lock nut remover kits

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/US-PRO-TOOL-7pc-1-2-drive-twist-socket-set-wheel-lock-nut-remover-removal-/331122638049?pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item4d18727ce1

 

they just act like an outside version of a screw extractor, i tried these when i bought my wife's Altea, only to discover there was no lock nut with the car, they just chewed the outside of the bolt head to bits and didn't shift, the other bolts took a 3' breaker bar to remove on the others i may add (and some jumping on the end of that)

 

the option i ended up using in the end was to drill out the bolt, roughly a 6mm drill through the middle of the bolt then a 11.5mm into the middle of that, undo the other 4 bolts then rock the wheel until the head pops off, then used the screw extractor and a blowtorch to remove the stub left on the wheel, all this is a little extreme but if your bolts have been off recently the removers will probably do the job, obviously there will be cheaper ones around that was just the first on that popped up on ebay, the set i used was from halfords

 

Pete

If it's the VW type the above won't work on them, the bolts have a spinning collar on them to prevent the use of these.. you will need to chisel off the collar first.

Is there a way to specify the * type like I had on the Octavia?

These vw shape ones look very fragile

Oem octy ones have a 50/50 chance of fitting, one of my friends with a L&K had the same key as mine.

Dealer should be able to supply a new key if they were OEM.

 

I stripped the key off my after market McGard locking bolts, got a replacement from Germany within a week.

I've been to Skoda, they found out which it was and ordered me a new one.

£20.

Rings bells this thread in my old discovery I wanted ti change the wheels so hunted the unit, shed, house car to know prevail just happened to take spare wheel cover off and there she was still stuck on the wheel bolt holding spare to the tailgate. God knows how it hadnt dropped off as id done maybe 12k since id last used it

I've been to Skoda, they found out which it was and ordered me a new one.

£20.

When you get it have a look for a number and keep a record of it 1