Safety Wheel Nut - help needed

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timmotchell

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Hi there, does anyone recognise this nut - and know where I could buy a socket to unlock it please?
Thanks,
Tom
 
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I think I would get a grinder to it and get 2 flat sides, attack it with some heat, give it a good clout (or two) with a lump hammer and take it off with a big pair of stillsons.
Then throw it in the bin ....
 
There is a master pattern for key codes on the net somewhere (on here too somewhere as I had a discussion about it at some point) but that was for alloys IIRC. they look like steel wheels. Thing is these days stealing wheels is long gone it seems, they take the whole car now.
So I would have to agree with @miktdish
Get rough with them and bin them.

J
 
You can get locking wheel nut removal sockets.
Binned my locking nuts on the D3 years ago, thinking if they want them then they can risk their skin.
 
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^^ Universal key for locking wheel nuts on steels. Although I still have them on mine I found this out when I left the key at home and needed to change a wheel. Different story on alloys where the wheel nuts are recessed
 
You can buy the socket to fit it from a landrover main dealer, last time I bought one it was £10, once you get the nut off bin it and put an ordinary wheel nut on, I replaced all mine with ordinary nuts, obtained on ebay. Those security nuts are a nightmare, the grooves wear and you can't get them off if you are stuck on the road somewhere.
 
Find a 6 sided impact socket that closely fits over the wheel nut.
Cut approx 8mm off the end of a 6mm diameter bolt.
Put this piece into the groove in your wheel nut.
Put the impact socket back over the wheel nut. The bolt will wedge between the groove and one of the sockets 6 "corners".
Lefty loosey.....
 
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