Locking Wheel Nut Key

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malcolm622
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Locking Wheel Nut Key

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Hi
My wife’s Peugeot RCZ has had its locking wheel nut key damaged by the tyre fitters.
I have removed all the locking nuts except one and wondered if anyone happens to have the correct locking nut key to remove just one nut (I will happily drive to you)

The code is: E 7DXO

many thanks
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Re: Locking Wheel Nut Key

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When that happened to me, I got 2 off conventionally, but the other 2 were too tight. I spent some time and drilled one locking bolt head off (19 or 21 mm drill), but it messed up the drill bit due to the hardening around the edge of the head. I then thought to use the broken key in an impact gun, and it gripped enough to undo.
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Most tyre fitters have tools to take them off my, had all mine off my C5 in ten minutes.
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Re: Locking Wheel Nut Key

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Most decent tyre fitters have master sets. There are only around 30 different combinations for the PSA ones
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If all else fails, you need to weld a bolt to it and undo it that way, if not you'll need to drill it out
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Rp0thejester wrote: 20 Jul 2023, 18:54 If all else fails, you need to weld a bolt to it and undo it that way, if not you'll need to drill it out
Not easy, they eat drill bits.
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Re: Locking Wheel Nut Key

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Not another locking wheel nut thread.
Locking nuts are a complete waste of time, and cause more grief than all the other car problems put together.
As Gibbo says any decent tyre bay will have a tool to remove the locking nuts. Then BIN them and fit normal standard O/E wheel bolts.
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Oldpug wrote: 21 Jul 2023, 10:24 Not another locking wheel nut thread.
Locking nuts are a complete waste of time, and cause more grief than all the other car problems put together.
As Gibbo says any decent tyre bay will have a tool to remove the locking nuts. Then BIN them and fit normal standard O/E wheel bolts.
I thought that I had struck gold when I had a puncture repaired recently. A huge heap of wheelnuts and bolts.
Raked through them and found half a dozen. None fit on my car although they looked right, some too big, some too small and some with the wrong thread.
One day I'll visit the dealer, only four miles away, and buy some and chuck the locking ones in the bin.
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