What’s keeping you from using wheel locks?

[ravenlord89]

300lb impact gun. Who need locks nuts when you have "Cross-thread"*.



*Patent pending.

[ST1G]

The car in your sig? a long reach jack would get it up by the diff, trailing arm or spare tire well.

I was being sarcastic.

The fact that crime is a rarity where I live is what keeps my wheels on.

[TurboJake]

I don't run wheel locks purely because I have yet to see one that I couldn't get past in about 30 seconds. IF someone really wants my wheels, they'll get em regardless. It's just a matter of how much damage you want to do the car and I'd rather have it be mostly intact, than have the knuckles cut off with a cordless sawzall.

Plus I live in the middle of nowhere, so that helps.

[DrJosh]

If someone wants your wheels bad enough then they will get them. Wheels locks are simply wishful thinking.

[Northern]

Have cheap wheels, but I suppose they're popular/flashy and popular honda/VW bolt pattern. I have studs and black anodized Motorsport Hardware Aluminum tuner nuts.

I think all the locking nuts he offers are steel, and are only available separately(to my knowledge.) Not sure if I'm really worried about weight differences so close to the hub, but I avoided buying them anyway.

Between living in a nicer neighborhood next to a military base and RCMP station ease my fears, monitored parking at work, and high traffic downtown being the main places I go in my car, I'm not overly worried about wheel theft. Door dings, roundel theft, and people breaking taillights/bumpers/trim are more on my radar.

[Todd Black 88]

My three piece ACT are the same. A real key is needed to remove the center cap.

The only reason I don't use wheel locks though, is how easy they are to defeat.

[mr2peak]

Ronal LS wheels have the best design. A cap that requires a real key. Defeating that means either sweet lock picking skills, or ruining the wheels you're trying to steal.

[varg]

What's keeping me from using wheel locks is my car being so low to the ground. Ain't nobody got a jack that fits under there.

The car in your sig? a long reach jack would get it up by the diff, trailing arm or spare tire well.

[PaintPro21]

I'd want to, but I haven't really found anything that fits under the hubcaps; plus I'm using adapters.

Thick spacer style adapters that bolt on, and then you bolt your wheels into the spacer?

Does regular oem wheel hardware clear your hubcaps?

[TobyB]

I don't use them because when I do, I lose the key, have to hammer them off, and then
realize how easy they are to defeat.

And then I realize that a set of 14" Libres isn't really what the kids want this year, anyway.

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[fanofe30s]

I'd want to, but I haven't really found anything that fits under the hubcaps; plus I'm using adapters.

[DER E30]

Stud kit+spacers. Also cheap Rota wheels...

One day I will get real BBS and then will be looking for a solution...

[PaintPro21]

I don't use them because of long wheel studs, though I should due to daily driving on real Alpinas. I've thought about getting the open-end 7-sided lug nuts like I had one one of my old cars.

My long studs are my wheel locks, those fools would be there forever if they don't have power tools.

90mm stud conversion?

[Vincent Brick]

I don't use them because of long wheel studs, though I should due to daily driving on real Alpinas. I've thought about getting the open-end 7-sided lug nuts like I had one one of my old cars.

My long studs are my wheel locks, those fools would be there forever if they don't have power tools.

[ST1G]

What's keeping me from using wheel locks is my car being so low to the ground. Ain't nobody got a jack that fits under there.