I lost my lug nut key. How do I get the lug nuts off? So I can keep my rims?

 

you have to drill into the side of the lug with an air hammer and try to get it to turn off, youll ruin the lug and have to get another set of locking lug nuts or just a regular lug nut. But ive heard you can sometimes get another key from a place but it depends what kind it is, if its stock or what.

 

Do you have a socket set? If so, go and find the size that fits over the lug, then find the next size down and get a craftsman one from Sears. Hammer onto the lug, then unscrew it. It's as simple as that. I reused the same one all 4 times without problems, you don't have to hammer it on tooo hard. If not, craftsman has a lifetime warranty.

 

I tryed the socket idea and the people who put the rims on before me put them on way to tight and it just slips on the nugnut. maybe ill have more luck on the other 3 rims with that idea. and the drilling idea could that ruin the rim if i do it wrong?

 

You can get a tool at at autozone to get them off.

 

Ive seen it done plenty of times myself i never personally have done it, but i dont see how it could ruin the rim...unless u miss the lug and hit the rim with the air hammer lol. Ive heard u could damage the stud...but i dunno it really doenst look that hard just never had to attempt it myself.

 

i took mine off with a socket.....maybe if you try one just a little bit smaller....mine socket fit very tight, i had to put it in a vice to pound th lug nut out of it after i got it off

 

I used an easy out. If you don't know what it is it's a drill bit type of looking thing that is reversed threaded so as you turn it, it tightens on the lug in the direction to loosen the nug. I had to torch the **** out of the lug to get it moving but it came off. I only did one, I'm to lazy to do the rest right now since the cars off the road.

 

Goto to a tire mounting chain. They usually always have a tool to get locking lugs off. You'll probally just have to prove to them that it is your car first.

 

go to any tire/wheel shop an theyll have the equipment

go to a discount tire if possible and theyll charge you 5 bucks to break the lock off

you are gonna have a hard time doing it yourself without the proper tools...itll take a tire tech about 2 mins to get it off without damaging your wheel

 

from personal experience, you could take an electric drill and simply sacrifice the stud its on by drilling out the center, then using a hammer and chisel to destroy the rest of the locking lugnut. I used this method to remove gta wheels from a junkyard car.. it was long and tedious but it did the job. Some of the previously mentioned strategies sound like they make more sense, though.

 

use what theifs around here use or used to use.... GATOR grip. it was that socket which was advertised on tv forever about 5 years ago. a socket and youlooked in where the nut goes and it was a bunch of metal rods about 1/16" thick each, so some of them would get pressed up to conform to the shape of the nut. well who says it has to be a nut, conforms to all kinds of shapes, including the pattern on ur tire key I'm sure , dunno if they sell it anymor ethough


oh here we go did a little search for ya

gator grip AS SEEN ON TV

another page with betteeer pictures

better pics click here

 

well i cant take the car anywhere its a parts car i want to rims off it. so i got to do it at home

 

12 point socket and a large breaker bar and some Power Blaster always does the trick, seems like every car ive bought in the last 4 years no one bothers to give me the lug key

 

The gator grip sounds like a great idea as long as it will fit into the key lock nut pattern...it would be a lot easier thatn trying to pound the old lug nut out of a socket.

 

If you're going to do it this way, a cobalt drill bit is your best friend.

 

I used to work at Sears Auto Center.. our "equipment" was a 12 point Craftsman socket, a 1/2" breaker bar, a vice, a punch and a hammer

If you have access to a welder, you can try and weld a nut on the lock.