1 hour ago, rum4mo said:

so if the original set are still with the car, then that would be good enough.

 

A good garage would make a note of the key number when first supplying the car.

I have found that the Registration number is not enough information for a lot of manufactures.

Especially if the locking wheel set is fitted after production.

 

Thanks AG Falco

My plan really was to use the spare when at home doing maint and leave the original car one in the car for use when out and about.

 

No easy way to cover every eventuality but that was my chosen way of doing things.

5 hours ago, AGFalco said:

 

A good garage would make a note of the key number when first supplying the car.

I have found that the Registration number is not enough information for a lot of manufactures.

Especially if the locking wheel set is fitted after production.

 

Thanks AG Falco

 

I was very surprised to see that given as an option to find out what the correct key code was, for a couple of reasons, though what happens after filling that field in I don't know.

On 07/06/2018 at 20:46, CWARD said:

Only 20 variations of the McGard locking nuts so a letter code is more than sufficient. McGard probably give you a long code as it looks like they must be more combinations so more secure with a long number rather than just a letter. 

The previous BMW ones only had 10 variations until they too moved onto the McGard locking wheel nuts. The guy that removed my McGard locking wheel nuts when my key broke told me they were still the best ones for security. He then promptly removed them all with his nut removal tool within 5 minutes without a mark on the wheels. 

I have become aware that in the VW Group world, there have been a few series of roughly similar McGard type security bolt patterns supplied to customers, how I know this is, I have checked the one for my 2011 Audi S4 and it claims to be an “E” searching through eBay etc, that seems to be true and is also known as an “805” my wife’s 2015 VW Polo on the other hand claims to be an “F” and searching eBay returns the wrong pattern for F, but a seller in USA is selling an “E” and it matches my wife’s Polo pattern and goes by the the code “525”.  So, my advice is never just go by the letter code as in the end it is the pattern that counts obviously!  I thought buying a spare for my cars would be easy, sounds like supplying a seller a good straight on picture is the way to go.

I am really only posting this to maybe save someone somewhere/sometime a bit of hustle that is all!