After trying everything to get that bloody wheel nut off and damaging the wheel slightly trying to drill it out, I decided to set my dad on it with an angle grinder. It got the bloody thing off Unfortunately it didn't do the wheel much good. All because some twat in a garage over tightened it

 

y didnt u just hammer on a smaller socket???

looks a bit ott

 

quality response there mate - you didn't let the bastard thing beat you

 

Whats your Dads solution for a sunrof that doesn't work? Make the car a convertible


TBH what he did was pretty dumb. Theres ALWAYS a way to get locking wheel bolts off. without damaging the wheel. Even if they are wanked up to 500NM.

 

shame im after a set of them wheels.any more pics?

 

mikee_rs - I took it to kwik fit and they couldn't get if off with their airguns so they tried a massive extension bar and it sheered the nut off. It was on so tight that even heating / hammering on a smaller socket etc wouldn't shift it.

I tried drilling it out but it damaged the recess slightly so I wouldn't have risked using the wheel again.

 

Rich_w - my dads an engineer and believe me we tried everything. Kwik fit recon they've never had a nut on so tight and I can believe that. My dad could probably have drilled it out sucessfully but I had a go and ended up taking out some of the actual wheel recess where the nut sits. Hence the wheel was pretty much knackered so I decided to go for the quickest solution to get it off!

 

best way to have ghot it off would have been locking wheel nut remover, they have a reverse thread resulting in the grip on the nut getting tighter the harder you try to undo it, never let me down.

 

my local tyre place fucked up 1 my locking nuts. took me a while to get it off,i tried a reverse thread wheel nut remover and it was shite so i just got a smaller socker and fuckin smashed it on there real hard. then used a breaker bar and it came right off

 

bit drastic but if you are not bothered about the wheel,then as long as its off.

 

sorry i forgot to add that i tap th reverse thread socket with a hammer whilst turnin so it gets its grip

 

you should have used an electric wazz gun rather than air - but it's a bit late now - quality response to the problem

 

if you snapped one of the nuts off, why not try the same thing with the others when you got home?
all you need is a set of new studs and nuts and it wouldn;t have been so messy

 

Wouldnt it have been better to put the car on an axel stand