Love the “ let’s hope this works”

I usually just go to Harbor Freight and buy some 12-point sockets. Hammer them on and use the impact to remove them.

I grind 2 flat spots on the wheel lock before putting it in the vice. saves a few choice words and lots of time👍

totally different subject... i watched one of your videos about vibration on acceleration.. (transmission mount). i changed mine out today.. 1989 S10 2wd blazer... smooth as silk now! 😁😁😁

Customers don’t lose the wheel lock key. The mechanic shop they take it to never puts it back into the vehicle.

That was real common in the 80s and the master set always had that one you need was missing

ATD makes a wheel lock master kit for about 60 bucks. It's been a lifesaver

My daddy always said that locks keep honest people honest that's all they do

You haven’t collected a bunch over the years? I swear I even have that one 😂

This is why I had a collection of all the "keys".

You straight up motivated me to get a job in automotive dude… I went from hauling trash to changing oil and I’ve honestly never been happier 🤙

been a tech for 20 years love your videos man I try to catch up when I can I've seen stuff on your feed that I didn't know so thanks for what your doing and Merry Christmas

Great video. Great tool and it's time to buy a Wilton forged vice. You can find them on eBay for lots of money but you can't kill them.

They have issues sometimes. Sometimes they don't bite. Good stuff!

I'm a retired tech. That tool made my job a lot easier and easy money. I like the bolt "removal tool" you have added to your kit.

A lot of people don’t know that they sell the lock removal tool at any auto parts store for $30 it also comes with a set of locking wheel nuts 😅 or you can just do like I do and buy one on Amazon for $6

Here’s a tip, just below the vise jaws is a “V” jaw cast into the lower part of the main jaws added to specifically grip round shapes. Might have saved you damage to jaws?

I can't tell you how much I need this. The amount of customers that have never heard of a wheel lock when you ask them, is ridiculous lol

When I got my car they never gave me the wheel locking lug removal tool with it. When time came for new tires, an air hammer and chisel attachment did a good job 😎👍 Now all my black wheels have 4 black lug nuts and 1 chrome one each lol

After you take the last one off the customer calls, i found the locknut... murphys law.

i was a mechanic for 32 years and i used to use a 12 pt deep socket,either 3/4 or 13/16, bang it right over the lock and pull it right off with the impact gun. the 12 point socket would cut grooves down the side of the lock letting it grab it...

I love this guy Mike the mechanic.... I've learned a lot from him great guy.,

This is something you should go to the dealership for. They have master lug key sets. When I worked at a VW dealership, I swapped locking for non-locking lug bolts fairly often because the customer had lost their key. I've swapped locking lug nuts for non locking lug nuts a few times at the Honda dealership I currently work for.

Just subscribed to your channel and man you are very knowledgeable and you seem to love what you do!! I need to find a mechanic with your morals!! Love the videos!!!🇺🇸

Never knew that there was a easy way to do this thanks again for the helpful video

Literally had that issue last week because i was stupid enough to leave the adapter on the wheel. 25 bucks labour, 25 for four new bolts. Worth it, hated the struggle anyways so changing wheels is gonna be a lot easier moving forwards.

Damn! Wheels look good still..mine have white wormy corrossion under the coating

I totally understand the charge I got when I imported my car now. All the way from Japan and had every single piece of documentation, even the extra stickers. Didn't have the socket for the lock nuts.

3/4" 12 point socket. Beat it on, impact it off. Take the grips off the vice so it acts like a shelf and airhammer it out. Get all 4 off in about 5 minutes.

Love his videos. Thank you!!! 😎 😎 😎 😎 😎

A 20mm impact works GREAT on those. Hammer it on and start spinning backwards with the impact. As the metals heat up, the socket grips the wheel lock and it comes right off. Put er in a vise and a long punch knocks the lug lock out.

Dude i need a tech like you in Florida, you would fit perfectly 👌

This is perfect for my small business, I will just need 4 of them because I do all my work on the road.

Videos like this show how crazy it can be being a mechanic. I mean you need a whole bunch of different tools for a whole bunch of different cars and the manufacturer makes those cars almost specifically to not be fixed they make it extremely difficult to do replace certain things and somehow a skilled mechanic is able to learn all of these things

I bought a set of those and they are fantastic because even once in awhile you will get a lug nut that's kind of screwed up or the ones with the dumb covers on them that no matter what socket you try to use it just won't work but if you bang one of those on the lug nut comes off every single time they are Lifesavers

Your videos are great. I always learn something and being a backyard mechanic I appreciate the tips.

I’ve used a 21 or 19 mm 12 point socket for that task with outstanding success

Easiest way to remove the nut, hammer and punch it straight through from the back side. Surprisingly does not damage the L hand threads, I thought it would so I screwed around doing what you were doing to remove them. Till I wound up not being able to get one out, tried a punch from the drive end, quick easy and no damage, been doing it that way ever since. Have a set of these, they work great, never failed me unlike the fancy tool set from the expensive tool truck that the shop has.

We used these all the time!! The fastest way to get the nut out of the socket is to keep an old wheelbearing around. You get to use it five times and you where going to throw it out anyways. Even if it's not the right thread, it will jump out of the tool the min it binds.

wheel locks on stock rims crack me up

As a mechanic, I think wheel locks are silly. I remember working on a 73 911... the owner had titanium lugs and then a super heavy steel wheel lock... I tried to explain to him the balance issue it was creating, but he was a naval aviator, so he knew better, of course.

Mike, you are so full of it,..great info. I love your videos.

I used to do roadside assistance. People would call me to put their spare on, and wouldn't have their socket with them and I couldn't get their tire changed. An 80 dollar tire change quickly becomes a 300 dollar tow bill. Keep that thang on ya!

My favorite are the factory ones on newer Rams. You have to knock off the ring on the outside then hammer it on. Great for security, not when the customer loses the key.

Buy the blue point key lug set that way you don't have to screw up lugs and buy new ones. I like seeing your stuff man keep it up

Cornwell has it too, but my personal weapon of choice is Matco WLFS5. It works just as well as your tool except the extracted lugs come off alot quicker

I couldn’t get any of mine to bite this week so I welded an m12 nut to the end and removed them that way 😂

The nice part on the craftsman 4 PC. Sockets . Drive them on with a hammer, buzz um loose,not off. Tap them side ways with hammer back them off by hand. Saves alittle time hope that helps👍

Every tool in the book in the shop. Except the one that comes with a every car.

Donut did a vid on these, hammering a socket on does the job on just about every kind of lock nut lol

Large easy out style extractors work fine for this, and less trouble getting the lug out of the tool after, just vice the tool and tap the lug out with a punch.

I love the humor. (You're an awesome craftsman). (Wish I lived nearby to bring my car for service/repairs).

I've never come across a locking nut so easy to get onto, wish they were all this accessible 😂

I used that same tool on a stripped/over torqued lug and it worked great. Just haven’t been able to get the old lug out lol

I don't know about in Michigan but in Florida the auto parts sells kits with every type of key you could need. Of course they were only sold to legit shops. It wasn't offered to the public. The one autozone had was around 350 dollars. Advance had a different one for 400 and Napa had one for 600. Of course that was a few years ago when I had them priced out.

Upon purchase customers are ALWAYS told: “DO NOT LOSE THE KEY to your locknut removal ! ! ! “ The customer didn’t lose it… He failed to put it in a safe place where he would remember where it was. It is somewhere in a place so special that even he can’t remember where it is. And on the top of it is labeled DUMMY, i’m right here! ! !

Hey just piece of advice when it comes to vices. Go find a blacksmith post vice. They are forged steel not cast and designed specifically to transfer energy to the ground. They also have a massive bite force. Good luck to you

A lot of the MFG supplied locks now have this lovely barrel that is just below the head of the lock. That thing is a little bit larger than the head which when putting a removal tool on it grabs said larger barrel… the damn things just free spin making it a fun ole day with the torch.

At my shop when I have to use those. We step out to the scrap pile and find a old hub or brake rotor with the same size stud. Force it if wrong thread pitch since it's scrap anyways. Been the best way I've found to get the nuts outta those sockets.

I had this same problem. I bought a new set of lugnuts. I took the old lugnuts off then welded them to the "keyed" lugnuts. Bam problem solved.

There is actually a lock key removal tool that i love because it doesnt damage the lock key at all, its the ken tool 30171 wheel lock removal kit.

Can we all just take a moment to silence to honor the humble Vice, most abused and overlooked of tools.

We have this Happen on Trucks. Which are 140 ft lbs. Just use a Bolt extractor easy. Comes out of tool afterwards easy too.

At the dealership they should have a set of master’s. The Audi dealership I worked at had them. They’d use them if the customer didn’t have their key to the wheels. Which happened a lot. Salesperson would say, keep them in with the spare. Customer loses the key and spare lugs…🤦‍♂️

I used a nut splitter. My lugs looked exactly the same, and had exactly the same clearance. I tightened the nut splitter on the lug, and smacked it sideways with a hammer. That loosened them, and they spun right off by hand.

To get the old lock nuts out of the removal tool. I take it to the bench grinder and grind two flat spots across from each other on the old nut. This helps stop it from spinning in the vice jaws.

One don't use an Impact tool to take it off. Use a breaker bar. Makes removing the nut easier.

I took my angle grinder to the head of the locking lug and cut a 6point head basically, then tapped on a junk drawer socket. Worked like a champ

When I worked tires we just used to take the socket and beat it with a hammer. Lock would pop out and you can continue without needing vise or bolt

When I bought my truck it had security nuts but no key I used a 3/4 12 point socket and taped it on with a hammer worked great. I also looked on Amazon you can get a 50 peace set of those keys for like $30. So they are not secure as people think. I threw mine in the trash.

Nice. This guy seems very capable

They say to not use thread loosen. but I've been using it for 50 years. I use my torque wrench and use 2 to 3 lbs more torque than called for. I throw away the regular lugnut and replace with cap muts. I don't have anything less than 3/4 ton or preferably, a one ton in the last 20 years I have had vehicles that are half ton. They work fine using cap nuts as usual and wtlit a high quality aluminum

Check under the passenger seat, for some reason every time I lose a locking lug key it’s always under my passenger seat. I don’t know how but it is. Back in the day we would beat a socket onto the locking nut until split and remove with impact. It was Florida though, no salt on the roads.

We just used old heavy-wall sockets, mallet them onto the lock, remove like any other nut... then use a 1/2 inch rod, pound the lock out of the socket. Then again, that was back in the 80s, so maybe OSHA changed the rules on what you can use in the shop.

That shows ya how secure wheel lock lug nuts are.

Right!!??! “Let’s hope this works”

They got ones that are tapered. Work good. Easy to get out.

they should include a removal jig, like a stud (multiple sizes) that have like a 2 piece split Jacob's chuck type of vice that compresses on the side of the removal studs (with a square insert in base for the removal stud to sit in so it can't spin) , you thread the lug nut on, crank the impact tight, remove the socket, then open the vice and the the lug is no longer tight as it is now only threaded half way down the removal stud jig. hmm, might be more complicated than I thought when I started writing this

I have a set of locking nut removal sockets. theyre just smooth bore 1/2 inch impact sockets. you put it on the locking nut, beat on it like a drunk southern widow, then gently loosen it out. Lot easier to remove from the socket, just use a punch to bang it out.

Not that it would have prevented the vice failure but it’s always good idea to center anything your working on in the vice when possible

Those style locks are pretty easy to come by

You have cool tools in the USA. Wish i was there.

The bolt thing was pretty smart.

By far the most consistent method I’ve used for those mcgard locks is to keep a 20 mm and a 23mm and a punch on hand. Hammer 20 mm, give it the beans, put 20mm socket face down onto a 23 sitting face up, and hammer the lock out with the punch conveniently sized to be just smaller than the 1/2” drive end

I had those same locks on our Jeep Liberty, teeth inside the "key" broke. 13/16 12 point socket, big hammer and breaker bar removed them.

I use a 3/4 inch impact socket, hammer it on to the wheel lock, and then break it loose with my half inch gun.. Knocking the lock out of the socket is easy and always use a copper hammer so it doesn't damage your tools.

You could also grind a flat spot on two sides of the lug, and then put it in the vice and reverse the impact wrench

Thanks for showing me how to take strangers wheels

If a thief wants it they will get it!! Locks makes us "FEEL GOOD" !!

In a pinch, a cheap 16 point socket can be used too, just skip the impact.

I always have mercy on the tech working on my car by taking off the locking lugs and putting back the regular nuts before coming in for service then putting the locks back on BY HAND and torquing it accordingly. Your job is hard enough.

Using a socket 1 size smaller in diameter and hammer it on also worked for me. You can also toss it as a socket is like 1$ now a days

That was the quickest I have seen that done on the internet..

I’ve had to buy replacement wheel lock sockets three or four times, at least, since these are easier to lose than 10mm sockets. You can get them from the manufacturer as long as you have the paperwork that came with the lugs.

air hammer with a chisel bit and push towards lefty loosey, never failed me and only messed up 1 wheel but i work at a salvage yard

I've set it before and I'll say it again. This is why I do not want to be a mechanic, there is a special place in heaven for you people.

Hey Mike, Harbor Frieght sells the kit with all lock outlug nuts.

The more expensive option would be to buy the master set of those. Comes with one of almost every one.

I use a 12 point socket. It works if you get the right one plus you can use a hammer and punch to remove the lock.

Using a bolt to get that shit off was actually pretty smart.