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Hey Joe,
Question for ya. Over the last 6 trips to various dealers and body shops, somone WAY overtourqed my lug nuts, so bad that i broke the key to my lock-lug nuts. Now i cant get any of them off.
What method do you know of on how to get these off without the key?
A friend of mine who works at a honda dealer says they make master key sets, that are sold by the manufacturer McGaurd for these purposes. All the subaru dealers i called today had no idea what i was talking about.
Tonight i tried pounding a 3/4" socket on but that got me nowhere.
I'm anxious to get these off cause i have autocross class this weekend, and i want to use my summer tires on my 17's. Any advice would be cool,
Thanks
Mark
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I had same thing happen and I had to be towed to a Ford dealer. I had a flat and couldn't get the darn things off.
May have to try tire places too.
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the subaru dealer out by me i know has a set of master keys that might work but you have to go to them so if you can pm me and ill try and help you out
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i tried gerald subaru, if thats who your talking about joe, they hadn't heard of a master key.
i'm bringing it to just tires at lunch, if they cant do anything i've got an appointment at my dealer for tomorrow.
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well it aint so much a master key as they have sets of different keys that could work i know they do cuz there in parts and i used to work there but some time they would have to pound a socket on and bust it off and replace the stud
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yeah, a set, thats what i told them, that they were available from McGaurd, who makes these things. Gerald insisted they didnt have anything like that.
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well its possible they dont have one for those more than likely they have to try some other way to get then off even maybe bust the locking ones off
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just tires did it for 25 bucks in less than an hour. they had a tool set specifically for the job, from snap-on. The tech working on my car said this happens all the time, which is why they have these tools.
now my 17's can finally go on!
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awsome glad you got it fixed
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Once they overtorqued my lug nuts to 300ft/lbs on my old wheels! I had to have them pay to torch the bolts off!
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