Need some help, removing my wheels and somehow I managed to strip one of my locking lug nuts i.e. honda. How the heck can I get it off?

 

The funny thing about these wheel locks, everybody seems to think they are actually an effective anti-theft tool... Chances are you can find a garage close to you who will remove that wheel lock lug, just be sure you take a regular one to replace it with for your trip home.

I know several garages that have this tapered cone shaped tool. You put it over the lug key, whack it on with a hammer, and then loosen the key like you would any other nut. Garages have to have this tool because there are too many people in this world who A- did not know their car even had lug keys and B- can't remember where their lug key is.

Good luck!

 

Whatever you do, don't follow this example

 

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I'll try to figure something out. My car is currently off the road, so I'm trying to do this at home.

 

smash a socket over it

 

Using an air chisel in the key area at an angle usually does the trick, but that isn't an option for everyone.

 

tap weld a bolt to the end of it.

 

From experience.

Don't use a chisel. It does not work. The wheel nuts are tapered and you can never get all the nut out. I spent a day trying to get a stripped nut off my jeep. I mangled it to such a state that I ended up having to cut the wheel off the hub with a torch. Wrecked the tire, wheel and hub. I now have a policy of replacing wheels nuts every 5 years, regardless of condition. I usually never use the lock, but then I usually never have anything on the car worth stealing.