Locking Wheel Nut Removal
What Are Locking Wheel Nuts, And A Wheel Nut Key?
As this article from CarWow affirms, most cars today have locking wheel nuts – devices used by car manufacturers to keep a vehicle’s wheels secured to it. The locking wheel nut on each wheel is used as well as standard wheel nuts, and they are a great safety feature, but their presence does mean that we have to add an extra step to our procedures – locking wheel nut removal – before we can carry out any work that calls for the wheels to be removed from the vehicle (tyre fitting, wheel balancing, or switching between summer and winter tyres, for example). And in order to perform that step of locking wheel nut removal, we will need the key to the locking nut(s). Here’s an example of how they can look.