Any tips for how to remove one please? VW Tiguan with what sounds like a binding brake, the wheel nut attachment will work on all but the one wheel I need to get off. Could I file a notch and hit it with a chisel?
Security Wheel Nut
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I used to have a a nut called a gator grip it has pins inside that when you pressed it against a wheel nut the pins would fill the holes and allow it to open
Rasputin
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Took my Touareg to a garage for this exact problem.
Had similar problems with a VW Polo and a Toyota - usually caused by energetic tightening of the wheel nuts in the garage or using a windy gun with the wrong torque setting (or both!). Air wrench is your friend if you can get one, but I've found most garages will help out, it's a shame that some of the "locking nuts" seem to made out of cheese and don't take any real force to mangle them!
WH308
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This is what I used on my DMax when I lost the locking nut. You will need a new wheel nut after though!
You get a left hand thread socket for removing locking wheel studs however, many German cars have rotating collars on the outside of the stud to prevent these biting, see below the two I have. I also recently had an issue with a locking wheel stud key shearing - the dealers will have a higher grade steel version and usually won’t charge for removing four wheel studs.
landkeeper
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If the the nut key still fits the locking stud here's how to get it off , its a 2 man job really, fit the key to a breaker bar or socket t bar and piece of pipe fit to the locking stud then apply tension but dont try to force it open , hit the back of the tbar /breaker bar straight on as if your trying to drive the wheel stud through the wheel whilst keeping anticlockwise tension on tge shock will loosen the stud, never fails
foxdropper
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Arnt they made like that so you can’t easily steal the wheel .
Defeats the object if they came off easy .
foxdropper
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Some dodgey characters on here 
So rembering what I'd seen in years of working on and around farms, I applied the "If it won't move and it should" tool. Basically tapped on the security nut.
Turns out it wasn't the brakes, but the dust plate, so that's a lots of quids saved.
Then we go to put the wheel back on. What utter numty with Kraft Dairy Slices for brains designed the way these wheels go on?? FFS! ONe of those damn wheels where you have to balance it on the hub to align the holes to get the bolts in. Which are deeply recessed into the alloy of the wheel. I pity anyone slight of build changing the wheel in the wet!!
Thanks for the advice
Turns out it wasn't the brakes, but the dust plate, so that's a lots of quids saved.
Then we go to put the wheel back on. What utter numty with Kraft Dairy Slices for brains designed the way these wheels go on?? FFS! ONe of those damn wheels where you have to balance it on the hub to align the holes to get the bolts in. Which are deeply recessed into the alloy of the wheel. I pity anyone slight of build changing the wheel in the wet!!
Thanks for the advice
shakey jake
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had mine all replaced with standard bolts, bloody things are a pain when you need to change a wheel in a hurry
nun_hunter
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Did this recently on all 4 wheels with the spinning collar type wheel nuts. Literally took seconds and a replacement set on eBay wee about £15. Local garage wanted between £40 and £120 depending on "how many tools we need to use"Just hammer a socket over the top of it. It'll ruin the socket, but you should be able to get the locking nut off ok
Rusty Gate
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Just go to the VW dealer, they will have a master set to match it up but also use when car in & key/nut left at home. I used to work for main dealer.
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