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Jase_ELXR8 · 01-05-2003, 14:10

Hi Everyone,

I have ford fitted locknuts to my EL XR and the key has stuffed up. Looking for someone in Melbourne with locknut key number 7B42. Let me know if you can help....

Cheers.

laminge · 01-05-2003, 14:24

Jase

Easiest way is to force socket head on with hammer and remove them that way, in my case i lost the key...

harasn · 01-05-2003, 14:27

I'm in geelong and have that key number. Did you buy that lock nut set from ford? I thought they were meant to be mostly all different. If you and I have the same set whats to say the bastards that steal the wheels don't have it as well? Let me know if I can help? Send me a PM with your area as I go to Melb a fair bit and could drop in one weekend, if your not in a hurry. But what happens is you get a flat. One of my mates lost his lock nut, but didn't know it until he was on the side of the road!!

BLACK XR6-VCT · 01-05-2003, 14:37

Those locknut keys are crap.

I mangled mine too after someone had put it on with a RATTLE GUN !

Bayford on Hume Hwy replaced it for $15. Just bring in the old one, and they will order a new key for you.

Jase_ELXR8 · 01-05-2003, 14:42

I need it ASAP as i now have new a rotor and pads on one wheel with the other 3 still to be done and i was also getting new back tyres fitted after work tonight.

Yes, they came from ford....

harasn · 01-05-2003, 15:15

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Originally posted by BLACK XR6-VCT
Those locknut keys are crap.

I mangled mine too after someone had put it on with a RATTLE GUN !

Bayford on Hume Hwy replaced it for $15. Just bring in the old one, and they will order a new key for you.

looks like I had better take the lock nuts off when some one is going to work on it and may use a rattle gun. Unless you tell the actual mechanic thats going to work on your car to not use a rattle gun the message doesn't probably get through the office to the mechanic. Using a rattle gun also damages the chrome coating on the wheel nuts and makes them rust and also the flacks of chrome hurt really bad when they go into your finger. I found out the hard way on my old car.

XR_Strider_GuY · 01-05-2003, 15:35

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Originally posted by harasn
Using a rattle gun also damages the chrome coating on the wheel nuts and makes them rust and also the flacks of chrome hurt really bad when they go into your finger.

Yes thats what exactly happened to the EF, and the lock nuts looks real dodgy afterwards. I guess at the Ford service department it's almost impossible to tell the people who work on the car not to use a rattle gun.
I'm going to take my car for a 30k service guess thats another thing on my list i'll have to tell them.

Jase,
Hope you can manage to get the wheels off.

honer · 01-05-2003, 17:36

Hehehehehe, I buggered the lock nut key on my EF on Saturday. Usually bloody things they are, I tried to weld it it up with hope it would JUST get the remaining nuts off, it didn't :(

My mate works at Bridgestone, he says alot of people bring their cars in without the locknut key, so they just jam a socket over it and use the rattle gun :) Thats what I will do, and just buy a new set of locknuts.

laminge · 01-06-2003, 03:53

How did you go jase?

Jase_ELXR8 · 01-06-2003, 13:56

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Originally posted by laminge
How did you go jase?

We put spots of weld on the inside of the locknut key and bashed it on. Got three of them off before we needed a reweld. So new tyres were fitted last night, and i'll finish putting all the brakes on tonight after work.

So for anyone with Ford locknuts i suggest ordering a spare key (which is the good thing about the ford ones) You can get them through Ford or speak to Galaxy products in SA directly.