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    ...another Locking Nut Issue

    Had the mobile tyre fitter around for the wife's 62-plate DS3, only to find out one of the locking nuts has gone pear shaped. No clue how this has happened so would be interested to hear of anyone else that might know....but a lot more importantly, is there any DIY to get this damn thing off?

    ...was hoping to copy photo for explanation but not working. I'm assuming these are factory fitted nuts. They have 4 lugs (circular cut-outs) towards the base of the nut and a kinda sleeve or collar that protrudes away from the centre of the nut leaving the centre lower than the collar and raising the 'locating ring' for the cut-outs....don't know if that makes sense!!

    So, what's happened is this collar has been 'puched' back down somehow flat with the centre of the nut, this in turn has pushed the locating ring inside an outer ring and thereby preventing the lock nut tool from being able to locate into the cut-outs (as they are no longer raised up but now trapped inside an out ring) - phew!!!

    So, if this makes any sense to anyone (well done :-)), and any help would be truly welcome.

    Thanks for listening to my waffle
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    Locking nuts on DS3s are pretty soft. Have you tried to locate a specialist- or see what kwik fit can do?

    http://www.ds3club.co.uk/forum/ds3/d...el-nut-removal
    Last edited by Chris_Blue; 09-11-2019, 17:10.
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      Chris_Blue - I have found such 'a guy' locally in South Yorkshire and I'm booked in (since posting). I was just wondering if there was a tried and tested DIY solution. To be honest I haven't been to kwik fit, didn't come into my mind!! Have you heard of Kwik Fit solving this problem or were you just throwing it out there as a possibility? Cheers.

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        Originally posted by PHILinUK View Post
        Chris_Blue - I have found such 'a guy' locally in South Yorkshire and I'm booked in (since posting). I was just wondering if there was a tried and tested DIY solution. To be honest I haven't been to kwik fit, didn't come into my mind!! Have you heard of Kwik Fit solving this problem or were you just throwing it out there as a possibility? Cheers.
        They will look for no cost, and advise you at least. If not nothing wasted

        They sorted mine out, but it was a knackered nut i'd been trying to get off. They used a huge breaker bar and some gripping device from what I recall

        but a knackered lock nut which needs a key might not be done in same way- no loss asking them tho
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