Wheel lock removal without key

[peter carroll]

I need to get some junkyard wheels off a car that has wheel locks. Does anybody have a suggestion? Thanks, Pete

[Toast]

Plasma Grenade

[iiibdsiil]

Is it the type where the lock part in on the outside of the head or the inside?

You may be able to get a gator grip on it. If not, you can hammer a socket on if it is the outside kind.

Or, you can find a tool guy, i.e. Snap on, Mac, etc and they do have tools made for removing wheel locks.

That's the only ways I know how.

Unless of couse it is the key type that you have to insert an actual key, like a master lock type key into. That is on many of the newer Porsche's and what not.

These can be taken off with a chisel to reveal the lug behind it.

- Brett Smith

[peter carroll]

It is the kind that has the recessed squiggly circle on the face of it. The "key" part is a nut that has the same pattern that is embossed. Your basic Manny, Moe, and Jack. Where can I find a Plasma Grenade?

[sammyg2]

I've done it this way before:
get an old socket that you could live without that almost fits over the outside of the lock. Take a BFH and pound it onto the lock. Use a breaker bar to loosen the lock.
Sometimes the socket get ruined, sometimes it doesn't.

[GWN7]

Pipe wrench and pipe to act as breaker bar on the pipe wrench.

[hargray2]

I agree on the pipe wrench/extender bar combo

[Toast]

Originally posted by peter carroll
Where can I find a Plasma Grenade?

Here is a plasma grenade and what it does:
Description: Grenade: Handheld explosives. There are two types of grenade: Human fragmentation grenades, which explode, and Covenant plasma grenades, which emit a glowing blue blast and have a nasty way of sticking to targets.
You will have to ask the Master Chief 'John Spartan' where to get one.

The Convenant usually carry these. But Master Chief recently destroyed Halo, which is where the covenant were. The Spartan may have taken some with him when he excaped, but im not sure where John is currently. I think he is heading back to earth, since the Covenant have discovered Earths coordinates.
Here is the damage it does!:

[Toast]

Although, now that I think about it, Im thinkin that the plasma grenade might be a little excessive for a wheel lock removal.

[norustscott]

peter, I have wheel locks on mine...what are the odds my key will work. how close are you to me?

[larrym]

KD makes such a tool; it has what appear to be "threads inside it, it just grabs the slimy chrome nut on the outside and takes hold; it works; 0r you can get a YA1005c from your local snap-on guy