spare tyre

Locking wheel nuts are great until they knacker on the wheel One of mine has worn so that the special socket doesnt engage like its supposed to (its the nut and not the socket). I had an iffy valve on the tyre so decided to take it to my local tyre fitters and get them to take the dodgy nut off at the same time - their response - "dont know what your gonna do mate, we cant get it off if the socket dont fit it". I told them all what was needed was a halfrauds kit - "we dont have one, you'll have to take it to suzuki and see if they can help"!! :ohmy: They slapped a new valve in and it worked, but the nuts still on.

I've got no intention of going to suzuki and I no intention of buying a kit, i'm waiting until im back in the west country again (over xmas) and will be popping into the very helpful tyre fitters i used to use down there, who have definately got a set - they took 4 nuts of a previous car of mine in less than 10 mins and charged a tenner!! Does mean that santa has been asked for a new locking wheel nut set for xmas!!! :lol:

Ive seen those spare wheel mounts on ebay previous but they dont seem to be about at the moment. Failing that, cut the old mount off the door and reweld it slightly higher.

Another point to note, when i put AT2s on mine, i didnt have any problem getting the spare on the door, but did need to buy a new spare wheel cover, as the standard vinyl one wouldnt stretch over the new tyre, something i hadnt thought about :blush:

Cheers guys, dirtydog i will try one on the rear door when i look at how to get the spinny nut off lol Didnt even think of that lol cheers!

Its not a locking nut like on the wheels, just a chrome nut that spins?

Vaguely remember someone had the same problem earlier in the year - from what i can remember - the spinny bit is just a protective cap and just pulls off - you might have to use a set of mole grips to pull it off

That is a cover that pulls off somehow, there is like a bent lollypop stick in the toolkit for poking in the hole and firkling it out. The locking nut is underneath

There is also like a plastic socket with a springy push out centre that no-one can figure out.

Thought so - just search for removing spare wheel - same set up as yours so should be the same solution

nice one fellas cheers for that!