Member Since: 11 Oct 2007
Location: Nottingham
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Locking wheel nut?
Just a quick one Guys. I have my HSE at the garage to have the mud flaps fitted and side steps. Just got a call from the garage to say that they cannot find the locking wheel nut remover.
Anybody know where it's kept? It's not with the jack and tools.
Thanks,
Clarabella.
17th Oct 2008 11:31 am
al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
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glovebox, cubby boxes either side of the boot space, loose down in the bottom of the jack compartment, centerconsole?
or in my case - still at the BLOODY DEALERS
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17th Oct 2008 11:36 am
ronp
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Think that locking wheel nuts on the D3 is more trouble than it's worth.
I've ditched mine in favour of standard nuts.
If someone is so brave/foolish to jack each corner up to extended off road height to nick the wheels ... good luck to them!...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
Still use mine working in London and living in the country means pikeys everywhere and they are devious
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17th Oct 2008 11:48 am
Clarabella
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Location: Nottingham
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Looked in the usual places and not there. Will call the dealer and book it.
Ditched mine to, although running style 1 18" they are not he best D3 wheels anyway
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19" anthracite wheels - off, 18" Silver / General AT2's - on,
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17th Oct 2008 12:18 pm
Wex
Member Since: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Knackeragua
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Clarabella wrote:
Looked in the usual places and not there. Will call the dealer and book it.
Thanks.
Try under the rubber cap that covers the winder that lowers the spare.Before I took all my lockers off that's where I kept it.
17th Oct 2008 4:42 pm
Frodo
Member Since: 25 Oct 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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I had dealer installed locking lugs on my Disco 2. Not long after a service visit I had a tire go flat. I could not loosen any of the lug nuts let alone the locking lug. My brother-in-law used his air wrench to loosen them. He told me the torque was to high on the lugs. He could not remove the locking lug and was afraid of breaking the key. The tire was leaking slowly so he filled it with air and sent me on my way to the dealership. Not only did they break my key at the dealership they also broke the replacement key that they ordered for me! They ended up cutting the locking lugs off of all four wheels and had the cheek to charge me for replacement locking lugs!
I had a "polite" conversation with the service manager and explained that only they service my Land Rover. Eventually it was worked out.
I chose not to have locking lugs on my LR3.
25th Oct 2008 9:11 pm
DiscoDunc
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The key would be either in glove compartment, in the jack and wrench bag in the RHS compartment in the boot or may be in the boot cubby boxes.
when you find it, undo the nuts chuck em away and buy 4 replacement nuts from Nick AKA The Large One. They are a pain and over time "split"Duncan
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25th Oct 2008 9:16 pm
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Duncan I was gonna mention that, the poxy things split. get rid of them cos when you get a puncture they will split and you canny remove. Been there, done that
25th Oct 2008 9:31 pm
AJS4X4
Member Since: 30 Mar 2008
Location: Surrey
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Locking wheel nuts are a pain in the backside, so many customers don't know where the god dame thing is.
P.S. We keep all the locking nuts for D3, because we need to.
25th Oct 2008 9:38 pm
blue meanie D3 Decade
Member Since: 04 Aug 2005
Location: Newbury
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just for the record, I've never had any issues with mine and theeeeennn......???
25th Oct 2008 9:54 pm
SJR
Member Since: 09 Aug 2006
Location: East Manchester
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After having the wheel nuts on a previous car seize up, and it being very expensive to put right got into the habit of loosening and re-torquing the wheel nuts on every car since on a monthly basis, only takes 5 minutes and not had any trouble since.
This would be my tip for today I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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26th Oct 2008 7:58 am
AJS4X4
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A little tip which most will say "we already know that" is to loosen all the other nuts first then tackle the locker.
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got into the habit of loosening and re-torquing the wheel nuts on every car since on a monthly basis, only takes 5 minutes and not had any trouble since.
