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Some companies can supply new or additional locking wheel nuts to the same pattern as your existing ones, so by the same token they should be able to supply the wheel nut adapter.
My locking wheel nut adapter lives in the same place so I only really need one.
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B.F.Goodrich tyres are not cheap and neither are the wheels they sit on, and then you need to add the inconvenience of sourcing replacements. Locking wheel nuts are not expensive and for peace of mind, I will stay with them.
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Someone who knows what they are doing won't be slowed down by a locking wheel nut sadly.
You should be able to ordered a 2nd key however. One would hope a main dealer would be helpful here.
Or just always keep the key in the same place in the vehicle.
Stealing a wheel with its tyre is not an easy proposition. You need to jack up the car, remove the wheel and lower the car onto a jack substitute, and then remove the jack and wheel and then scarper. Sounds easy, but is it? I will ignore the basics of a suitable jack and the wood blocks and home in on the wheel nuts and again I will ignore the need of sized sockets and a suitable breaker bar. Up to this point the whole enterprise is doable but noisy and time consuming. Instead I will home in on the nuts or more specifically to lock or not to lock. I have looked at a video of overcoming various locking systems and the one with a rotating steel ring was an easy winner. Yes you can hammer a removal socket onto the ring but the ring will just turn and you get nowhere. All the others failed but they at least did resist and lots of noise was apparent before they gave in. Oh, and the would be thief needed an air wrench to do it so do we add that tool in the list of "tools needed".
My locking wheel nuts, supplied by Suzuki, are of the ring type and I would be interested to know how anyone on this forum would go about removing them in the same time as I can remove them with the proper tool.
Surprisingly I'm going to sternly recommend that no-one gives any detailed how to guidance on the removal of locking wheel nuts on this or any other public forums. I will also delete any such posts on here.
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Stealing a wheel with its tyre is not an easy proposition. You need to jack up the car, remove the wheel and lower the car onto a jack substitute, and then remove the jack and wheel and then scarper
Actually, no you don't, but if I explain how it's actually done, the moderator will probably delete the post - two persons with a cross style wheel brace and less than five minutes per corner, with the majority of the time being spent removing the lug nuts - no jack required.
For what it's worth, I've never stolen a wheel, but I have had all my wheels stolen.
You have a responsibility to the members and casual readers on this forum not to give out spurious info. that may influence them against the benefits of locking wheel nuts. It takes me 5 seconds with the correct tool to remove a locking wheel nut. How long does it take you without the tool?
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