Who is still running locking lug nuts .

[porsche tech]

I have locks on my car and my wife's car but if I have to take one in for something (rarely) for a recall or something, I always remove the locks and put regular lug nuts back on. Don't want to get them boogered up or lose the key.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

THat's funny ,they were probably his wheels .
Our dealership was getting hit regularly when I worked there . Wheels/tires, tailgates, and Radio's.
My boss blamed me , I was an 18 year old longhair, and had access to the keys .
. They later found out it was the lot boy . He had a brand spanking new Mitsubishi Radio installed in his Ford bronco. Duh. I kept telling my boss , "what do you think I am going to do with 20 Mitsubishi wheels ? I have 2 gm vehicles, and a pick up, besides, these wheels are gay . Man I hated that guy . I really wanted to ring his bell .
That was the day my life changed.
I told him to where to go , loaded my top box in the trunk of my 1969 z 28, and left after lunch. I came back for my bottom box at days end, and never came back to work .
That weekend, I hooked up with the hottest girl I ever dated, and spent 5 years with her .
That same boss that accused me of stealing , came into my business 15 years later, trying to put the Amway hustle on me . Sorry for the rant. I like that story
Even in the hood , I rarely see a car up on blocks missing wheels. I've never heard of it happening to a private owner

That is a great story!

I went for a job interview at a hospital once. I called to check on the status of the interview a couple of weeks later and the guy told me something like "they are restructuring to save money, so I probably won't be able to hire you. But I have a job that's sort of IT related that I'd like to talk to you about." I met him half way between where I lived and the hospital at a diner. It was an Amway sales pitch. I was shocked, I hadn't heard of Amway in many, many years since I was a kid and some friends pitched it to my parents. I should have told him to eff off and left when I realized, but I was trying to break into what has been my career for the last 20+ years and didn't want to burn any bridges.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by gregpark

I still have them on my 72 2002 and only because I'm not sure where I stashed the normal nuts. They're all on one wheel now. The guy who put new tires on the car last is a real brainiac

Hahah, that's hilarious.

[A930Rocket]

I have them on our Tahoe and F150. They’re parked outside so....

Way back when, I used to see a C3 corvette with really nice wheels at a house all the time. Drove past one day and it was on cinder blocks.

[Brian 162]

I have them on both my vehicles.
There's a guy on the Corvette Forum that has 2 locks on each wheel of his C7. I've seen pics, the owner likes to post pics of his car.

[shadowjack1]

A few years back, in Slidell LA some '"dudes" hit the Chevy dealership and jacked something like 400 wheels off new cars. Took a while but our local caught them.

[stealthn]

OMG, my mechanic overtightened my front wheels with all locking lugs, I broke the socket trying to get them off, it was a huge saga, 2 months and 4 sets of lug removers from Amazon until I got them all off. I will never use them again....

[David]

This is off topic but... my amway story:

Almost 20 years ago I was buying a Porsche magazine and a garage construction book at a B&N when a nice older guy struck up conversation. I naively gave him my name and workplace. A week later I got a call from the guy at work saying he had a way for me to make extra money so I could build my garage. I told him time was my problem not money. Then he had a way for me to have more time. One of life’s lessons. Of course I made the same mistake when I started dating after my first marriage. Never give your full name to a stranger.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by David

This is off topic but... my amway story:

Almost 20 years ago I was buying a Porsche magazine and a garage construction book at a B&N when a nice older guy struck up conversation. I naively gave him my name and workplace. A week later I got a call from the guy at work saying he had a way for me to make extra money so I could build my garage. I told him time was my problem not money. Then he had a way for me to have more time. One of life’s lessons. Of course I made the same mistake when I started dating after my first marriage. Never give your full name to a stranger.

Hahah, good story, and moral.

[JackDidley]

First thing I do is get rid of the locks. I have a set of Vette locks and a set of Cayman locks in the garage. Nobody steals wheels around here.

[wildthing]

Syncroid swapped mine to 993 style nuts as the stock ones that require keys were well past their sell dates...

[Por_sha911]

Got the old style ones on my `87 Carrera mostly for the factory original look.

[rockfan4]

From Reddit - Just Rolled Into the Shop



We bought the wife's used Chevy from a Chevy dealer about 60 miles away. I was looking it over but not too close, and noticed one lug on each wheel was different from the rest. So I started looking through the car for a key, didn't find one. I asked the salesman and he said there weren't locks on the wheels. I looked closer, and he was right. Each wheel had 4 stock lug nuts, and one from a car or truck that had hubcaps, actually the same lugs my truck uses. Of course they wouldn't switch them out, and I ended up buying a set off eBay.

The car also had 235/50's in the front, but 235/55's in the rear. Even after buying lugs and 4 tires the car was quite a bit less than a similar one in La Crosse. I'm scared to run a Carfax on it. We've had it 2 1/2 years and only changed the oil and had to fix a cracked flex joint on the exhaust, so I'm happy with it. The hood needs a repaint, it looks like it followed someone too close down a gravel road, but it's aluminum and it's not rusting.

[petrolhead611]

Out for a walk in the upscale neighbourhood the other week and saw a Honda Civic type R on the verge with all 4 wheels off.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Got the old style ones on my `87 Carrera mostly for the factory original look.

Same here. I have the factory Porsche locks on my wheels. After 26 years of ownership they have never been a problem, but I do the majority of the work on my car myself.

I have thought many times about going to all standard lug nuts just to avoid having to swap the lock adapter out as I remove a wheel. If I ever order some more lug nuts I likely will get enough to replace the locks.

[matthewb0051]

Originally Posted by cabmando

My daughter's Mazda 3 has them. I'm sure those wheels are a hot commodity!

My daughter has a 08 Mazda 3 that we bought for $500.

That thing had wheel locks. Maybe it was the 17 inch wheels?

The locks have been off a while now.

Our Land Rover LR4 had them with the squiggly line in the center type. I sacrificed 4 sockets to get the wheels off once. The key just fell out of the factory socket

[sc_rufctr]

So after nearly 40 years of driving in many different cars I got my first flat tire today.

My 1992 S420 W140 still has the original Mercedes lug locks from new and I had no issues changing the tire on the side of the road. I keep a bottle of Green Slime and a small compressor in the trunk but I chose to change the tire instead.. (A bottle of Green Slime is close to $30 in Aus.)

After 19 years on the road they're not pretty but I'm impressed at how good these still are.

[SiberianDVM]

Got a set of 4 Porsche lug bolts off of ebay for $20 and trashed the locking ones off the Boxster yesterday.