[Jims5543]

Ooops I should have read to the end. I was excited to share my experience / hack.

I had lug locks and no key on a car I purchased years ago.

I spent the big $$ and bought a removal socket and it worked like a dream... once.

After one use it would not work anymore.

Then I took a standard socket that would not quite fit over the lug, in this case it turned out to be a 3/4" socket. I hammered the socket over the lug and with a long breaker bar I was able to gently break the lug loose.

I thought I may be able to knock the lug out in a vice, no joy, I went to the Ace hardware and purchased 2 more sockets (still cheaper than the removal socket) and repeated 2X.

My 2014 i3 has lug locks too and no key and no spare, I will let BMW deal with it if I ever take it in for service.