JoeRS22

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my mate just rung me to say that he wanted to get his wheels off to get them done black but had lost the locking wheel nut key, so our aa friend went around and got one off, then turns up another mate in another white frs and just curious tried his lock nut key and guess what.... perfect fit!
pikey fords

Ebonycossie4x4

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lol, not good...

wibbler

Sounds like just coincidence to me, there are only so many different key patterns so there is a 1 in X chance you'll find someone else has the same one.

JoeRS22

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i think i would be putting a different set on imo

RS Grant

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Be good to get other MK2 FRS owners to check, but can't believe that 'one key fits all' type thing.


Cheers,
Grant

JoeRS22

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might be small numbers do each other but worth checking.

James

it's about a 1 in 40 chance.

I have seen this happen before, but it's very rare and just a coincedence!

pani_k

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Get two locking wheel nuts then that's what I have on mine.

THEDMAN

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Will be the same as the Mcgard that are on the Mk1 FRS, only about 10 permutations used by Ford.

DazC

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BMWs are the same.Their master set only has about 30 different keys.

turbochild

i had a vectra and couldn't find my locking wheel nut key so asked the neighbour for his perfect fit

RichieST

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As above, when I bought my car the locking wheel nut key was missing so took it up to Ford and they had a box of masters, I didn't see exactly how many, but it was a small box and the right one was found in seconds!

wirralphil

Not very safe is it?

stevos

would cost too much in tooling to make every set different

pani_k

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Previous owner had the car from 8k miles changed the alloys at some point now on 84k wheel aint come off yet

Gazzonator

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When I worked for Fords there were only ten or so different combinations in our master set.

As mentioned above, to make each set different the costs would be horrendous and would also pose a problem for the dealers if they were required to remove the nuts if the key was lost as there would be no master set.

RWD_cossie_wil

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Locking wheel nuts are useless, as you HAVE to carry the key in car anyway

DAN P

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when i picked up my old mrk 4 golf gti had 3 sets on got home and took twos sets off

PeterRST

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Locking key nuts are my biggest pet hate. Why do people even bother putting them on? They're always the first thing I throw away when I get a new car as it's a pain in the arse, every time you work on your car.

If I want to steal your wheels I'll do so anyways. No matter how many and which locking wheel nuts you have on there.

This
http://cgi.ebay.de/Felgenschloss-Sch...item483f5678d4

+ battery air wrench

= wheels gone in less than 5 minutes...

Glenn_

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When i worked for suzuki they had a box of locking wheel nut tools too.

XRT_si

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A mate who worked at a tyre shop told me Ford only used around 6-10 combinations.

McGard themselves only sell around 30-40 different types from memory, not the 1000's that people quote.