Locking Wheel Key Broken

[C.slicker]

The unlocking key for the wheel bolts on my clio has snapped inside so the pattern no longer matches.

Can I take the key into Renault and ask them to find me a new one or is it drill the bugger out time? Its on too tight for tapping it out btw.

Thanks

Sam

P.S. I do not have the locking key code in the handbook.

 

[edde]

If were on about the proper Renault keys well there a load of them hence why you need to know what type you have there 30 odd different codes.

Halfords etc sell wheel nut removal tools you hammer them on and take the bolt off like that or you can always hammer a socket set ontop of them

 

[C.slicker]

I will get a pic now Edde.

I don't think its a genuine renault as it doesn't have the spinning ring on the outside yet a socket wouldn't go over the top as its smooth and round on the outside?

 

[Jay_clio]

get a garage to drill the bolt and re thread it so they can remove it, or DIY it

 

[C.slicker]

http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/stotham1/?action=view&current=SNV30858.jpg
http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/stotham1/?action=view&current=SNV30859.jpg
http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/stotham1/?action=view&current=SNV30860.jpg

 

[C.slicker]

There are the pics ^^

 

[TomTom]

Yeah its genuine Renault I'll have a look tomorrow got loads of keys might fit that.

 

[Final Maxim]

ide try hammer a socket over them

 

[C.slicker]

Can they tell from the key or the bolt? As in are they able to match from that? Or is it just trial and error?

 

[C.slicker]

ide try hammer a socket over them

Over where?

 

[Jay_clio]

id try and force it into the groove, and if that fails, hope that TomTom has a spare

 

[C.slicker]

Are they not mutually exclusive?

If I force a socket into the groove the bolt will be fucked and tommo's key won't work?

Sam

 

[davebem]

If its a renault one Renault charge £30 for the pleasure and you have to wait 2 weeks for them to come from Italy. Ive not seen a Renault one like that, on the key is there a code like "w" or a FA code written somewhere in your log book?

 

[Jay_clio]

in the 3rd pic you posted (pic of the Key) if you could bend the part thats starting to go out of shape then try and wedge it in the grove, and wont budge then try and unbolt it very slowely (probz use a drill)

 

[C.slicker]

It says W on the key?

 

[TomTom]

Yeah loads look like that no Renault ones are 100% 'unique' if that makes sense. Its deffo a Renault one if people loose the keys/round the keys off at work I usually...

1. Get a spare locker key thats the same and undo it
2. Get a spare locker key thats roughly the same, hammer it on and undo
3. Hammer really hard 5/6 times onto the bolt head with a drift, shocks it, and tap it round with a smaller drift (butchers option)
4. Weld a nut onto it, undo

I reckon I've got one similar to that

 

[Dan Page]

Good luck!

This happened with my 1.2 but it damaged the key, i then got a puncture and renault said 6 weeks to get me a new key.

I got them all off and bought aftermarket lock nuts.

This took a good three hours to get them all off and as there so well designed and such hard steel there hard work. I dented the outter collar into the middle but to stop the outer spinning on the inside and then hammer and chisled them off. But there bloody hard steel, it killed to chisels and i ended up using a bolt cutting chisel for the job.

Much easier said than done though, it will take ages to get em off i promise you lol.

 

[fixedgear]

If possible go to a local rally prep/etc place (somewhere careful with a welder) and get them to weld nuts on. It won't be pretty but it turns into a half hour job. If the recess in the wheel isn't too big (I haven't looked at the pics) Or removal socket or hammer a socket on and use a windy gun

 

[C.slicker]

Sorry it doesn't have W on it but "C"

Tom - you should really be on my payroll...

 

[davebem]

Sorry it doesn't have W on it but "C"

Tom - you should really be on my payroll...

Shame! As I have a spare Renault one from my old clio that is a code w.