Locking wheel nut socket broken!

[Funkyboy]

My locking wheel nut socket has sheared off meaning I can't remove the nut! Anyone any tips as there doesn't seem enough room to get another socket over it?

Thanks

 

[V6Matty]

Local welder will put a few blobs of weld on hammer a socket onto it and remove that way, probably cost you £20 at the most and as you won’t have a locking key for the others now either then may as well have him do all of them, I had to do that on my wife’s car recently and the chap charged me £60 for all of them, mainly due to destroying two sockets having to get them off, they’d been so badly over tightened it was no surprise they broke

 

[Blobcat]

I’d buy another socket and then carefully remove all the other locking wheel bolts then try that one…
I’d try tightening it slightly first - after spraying it liberally with penetrating fluid.

You can also use a scissor jack against a wall to ensure the socket is pressed really had into the bolt. Just get the car in place, fit the socket to the wrench, then place a jack between the wall and the end of the wrench and open the jack until it’s really pressing it home.
Then gently but firmly press down on the wrench

 

[Funkyboy]

Problem is I've got a flat tyre and can't get wheel off to get anywhere to sort it

 

[Blobcat]

Problem is I've got a flat tyre and can't get wheel off to get anywhere to sort it

Use a can of tyreweld to get the tyre pumped up

 

[Srdl]

Problem is I've got a flat tyre and can't get wheel off to get anywhere to sort it

Do you have RAC/AA membership of Mercedes Mobilo. If so, call them out.

For the future, take all the locking nuts off and just use standard ones. A lot of us on here do that and no one steals alloy wheels these days.

 

[rifiki]

Loose the locking wheel nuts, 4 things less to go wrong

 

[Frontstep]

Most tyre places have a box of fits all sockets to get these nuts off.

Pound the offending nut with a drift and lump hammer.

Those impact guns are a menace and nuts are so often overtightened.

 

[DREAMER NO2]

Another cheese socket gone down .

 

[ajlsl600]

Also the new mb wheel bolts are made out of cheap shxte material I have had to replace 5 or 6 in last 2, 3 Yr the also start to rust 5 min after fitting, quality gone!!!

 

[JoeHorner]

Grab a set of locking nut removers. Given you should only need them once, a cheap set off eBay or Amazon should do you.

They're sockets with slightly cone shaped reverse (left handed) teeth inside that you knock onto the bolt head & they bite in as you undo the bolt. Not cheap for good ones but a £20-£30 set should last to get yours off.

Then throw the locking nuts away and get 4 normal ones to replace them - the days of alloy wheel theft are long gone!

 

[Blobcat]

Grab a set of locking nut removers. Given you should only need them once, a cheap set off eBay or Amazon should do you.

They're sockets with slightly cone shaped reverse (left handed) teeth inside that you knock onto the bolt head & they bite in as you undo the bolt. Not cheap for good ones but a £20-£30 set should last to get yours off.

Then throw the locking nuts away and get 4 normal ones to replace them - the days of alloy wheel theft are long gone!

Mercedes don’t have a lot of clearance around the wheel bolts so it’s difficult to get any of the removers to fit - I’ve some and they wouldn’t go on at all.

 

[JoeHorner]

Ahh, must be different wheels (or different removers) to mine. Had to remove one when we got it and the remover would JUST fit. It was tight, and bruised the finish a little inside the hole but did go on there.

 

[Woodleigh]

I’ve some and they wouldn’t go on at all.

Maybe get the outside diameter turned down.

 

[Pitsmoor Col]

Local Tyre dealer did mine after the locking wheel socket went tit's up, he just brayed the shite out of them with a big drift and lump hammer, that loosened them up enough to spin them off.

 

[JoeHorner]

Maybe get the outside diameter turned down.

You sometimes can but the way they work puts a lot of radial force on them so if you thin them too much they tend to crack.

 

[Woodleigh]

You sometimes can but the way they work puts a lot of radial force on them so if you thin them too much they tend to crack.

I removed mine years ago. I now work on the principle that nobody steals alloys any more.

 

[ajlsl600]

Xactly I boned all mine. To std bolt. Which is made out of butter they are crxp. Start to rust same Yr as fitted

 

[JoeHorner]

Xactly I boned all mine. To std bolt. Which is made out of butter they are crxp. Start to rust same Yr as fitted

Yep, made of butter but easy to drill if they shear off as a result

 

[00slk]

Xactly I boned all mine......................................

You what!!!!...............