[Closed] High security locking wheel bolts.

I’d go with the standard manufacturer’s set, I drive a lot of cars with quite tasty alloys and they all come with standard locking wheel-nut sets, there doesn’t seem to be a huge trade in stolen wheels, it’s a deterrent to the local scallies who won’t be bothered with ordering the key nuts off eBay, they’re opportunistic and will only take what can be undone without anything more than a pile of bricks and a spider wrench.

Not had any particularly more difficult than others to remove .

As above they really are only to stop the honest man.

I'm not going into detail here but with correct (not big and very common) tools you don't need the key for most of them

I still use em on my cars - they are more likely to steal my wheels for the tires than the rims haha

Think that I would be more concerned about the amount of salt on the roads at the moment.

Salt + alloys = x?xx?!!!

Whatever will survive a mechanic with a zip gun.

And, you can buy an adapter that will remove most wheelnuts if you lose the key anyway. It graunches the nut in the process but you can still get the locking nut off.

I see all your points, for the time being the crap bog basic alloys the came with the car are staying on it until the weather changes... probably some time in June. I’ve also already applied wheel sealer to the new ones.

I know there’s a million ways to get a standard wheel locking bolt off, I was wondering if there wasn’t something that might fill the hole in the alloy stopping or at least hindering those sort of reverse bolt driver attacks. Some of the ones that I’ve seen seem to be almost a solid head with a weird pattern cut to the specific key in them.

To put my concern in to context we had about 20 policemen and police dogs running through our back garden and climbing fences around our street looking for a scrote they’d chased to a nearby cul-de-sac at 4am. Apparently he’d nicked a car, wheels and all!

I went on the local papers website to see if there was a report on it, 3 articles on cars thefts and joyriding later and I still hadn’t found one about what was going on outside my door.

I might be being paranoid but it’s not unheard of for wheels to go missing in the local area, insurance will cover it if it happens to me but the premiums are already high enough.

Meh. I binned my lockers after reading the umpteenth post of drivers stuck with a puncture and a spinning locking nut, waiting for the yellow taxi. Wheel theft seemed to be confined to the spare hanging below the rear; scrotes cutting the winch cable.

Awaits posting of the “No, Mr Bond, I expect you to walk” jpg.

park car on bricks every night  - prop bed up using wheels

stops car theft / joyriding and wheel theft with one sweep. and it sounds like it would be inkeeping with the surroundings 😀

All my spare bricks have already been stolen to use when nicking other peoples fancy wheels. It seems I’m out of luck completely.

As far as the spare is concerned I think I’m safe, unless they really decide they need to break in to the boot and steal the cans of tyre weld I have in there. It’s a daft beemer; no spare!

The really annoying thing is, the area I live in is quite nice. Reasonably quiet and for the most part decent people. It just happens to be not very far from a few places that aren’t so nice, and scrotes don’t crap where they eat so to speak.

I’ll revisit the issue when I come to fit them maybe, see if the paranoia and novelty over the new wheels has worn off any.