4 minutes ago, rum4mo said:

 

No, it is not completely needed, but can make life a bit easier, especially when wheels get bigger and heavier.

 

I first came across these plastic pegs on my 2000 VW Passat 4Motion. I think that the only reason VW bothered to supply one in the tool kit was because the front discs did not have any fixing screw on them, so it could get a bit annoying fitting a wheel on with no studs to locate things and worse, having a free to move/rotate disc which could rotate and cover the bolts holes!

 

So, I quickly added one to the tool kit in my wife's 2002 VW Polo when she bought it, I think it is also a cost cutting issue not supplying them, every penny counts.

 

I ordered one in for my daughter's Leon Cupra and had to get one ordered in via either Audi or VW as SEAT and I think Skoda do not recognise that part number.

My son bought a set of original vrs alloys with the intention of having them re furbished but didn't , the wheels without tyres are surprisingly heavy for their size, so I see your point to make fitting easier when a puncture strikes on a dark winters night.

@VWD  If you told the Insurance handler that they stole the locking wheel nuts as well and the thief is caught do you think the would grass you up as having no locking wheel nuts?

My daughter has lost hers but it is a wavy circle with 6 points from a 61 fabia.

 

Any reliable sellers of keys to remove these.

 

 

Edited 15 June, 20205 yr by ukgnome

Try ebay and just make sure that you pick one exactly the same as that one, probably I posted some suggestions earlier on in this thread, that one is a McGard security bolt by the way.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-Genuine-VW-Audi-Seat-Skoda-VAG-Locking-Wheel-Nut-KEY-ONLY-Lock-Bolt-A4-Golf-A6/184275139360?hash=item2ae7a77b20:g:9y8AAOSwLdterJvA   

 

The above is one link, but there will be many more, maybe send that one your picture of the head of that security bolt, or if you have the code of the end of the adaptor that is good enough.

 

Tip, if you do not know the code of that security bolt, then once you have got a new key, record its code, it will be a single letter, though other marques use a 3 digit number for the same range of McGard security bolts.

Edited 15 June, 20205 yr by rum4mo

On 03/06/2020 at 13:44, Roottootemblowinootsoot said:

@VWD  If you told the Insurance handler that they stole the locking wheel nuts as well and the thief is caught do you think the would grass you up as having no locking wheel nuts?

Personally, I never trust insurance co to not look for a way out. Simpler that way ,to know that you've done all you can to stop a yob. And at £50 a corner- it's cheaper to stop them than make a claim and pay an excess of £100 and a hit on policy for the next few years. It's the finance of motoring.

I'd suggest that if someone stole my Alloys, then the must be desperate or in need of treatment. That said, I once returned home from where Swimbo worked to find all the nuts on my steel wheels loose. I'd just fitted a set of cheap tyres to my old shed. I'd one cure- fit a long allen key nut on each wheel, with a wheel nut near the rim to line the wheel up. Parked near Swimbo's place of work many times after that -no more problems.

@ukgnome, did you manage to source a replacement security bolt adaptor?

from CarParts Warehouse on ebay.

 

I sent a photo of the locking design and the reg number, they identified the part, I ordered and it arrived with the postman about 3 days later. Quality wise, feels as heavy and solid as the one I have for my Superb and it fits tightly.

Good, and of course you have kept a record of the code stamped on that new adaptor, and removed a security bolt to make sure that the VW Group coding is the same, as some aftermarket supplied ones use another car marques coding system, like 3 numbers instead of a single letter, which is what that car's security bolts will have stamped on the end of the threaded section.