I have a 2004 Silverado. It had 20" Helo wheels on it. Problem is my son lost my lock key for my wheels. I have one of the locking nuts off of it. Any ideas on how I can get a key to fit the rest of them. My local tire shop has a tool but it is two big to fit in the hole the lugnut is in. I am going to have to get the wheels off eventually, unless my tires last forever. LOL

 

you might ask the tire shop if they can i.d. the lug company, or lug style and if they know where you can get one.

 

If you can not get a new key you may have to have someone use a air chisel. That should be last resort,it would be very easy to slip and hit the wheel.

 

The same thing happened to me when I bought a 1997 4-Runner. They had aftermarket rims (that I was not a fan of, prefer the stock over those) and they flared out some so the hole to get to the lug was HUGE. A guy I knows runs a tire shop and he honestly couldn't do anything about it, I took it to a mechanic friend of mine and he got it off. What he did was he stripped it small enough and then forced that sucker off.

 

The problem I am going to have is that my wheels are made so that you can not get to the lugnuts. Here is pic of them I took during a blizzard.

http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p...nt=snow010.jpg

 

i used a rednek way once. took an old socket that didn't quite fit over the nut, beat it on, then used a breaker bar. not a great way, but in a pinch. unless you have, or have access to, an air chisel as MDTAHOE suggested.

 

It's still possible to get it off...the rims I had the problem with covered the lug nut plus more, so you couldn't come in from the sides, just the top of the nut

 

any desent tire shop should have a set of these. i use to keep a couple of different types on my wrecker years ago
http://www.awdirect.com/easy-off-met...quipmenttools/

also Sears also sells them also..

good luck

 

do this.. beat that sucker on there good.. and to get the lug out. put the socket in a vise and sick a strew driver or sumthing in ther socket and beat it out....