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Had a good day today. On top of my current clutch worries, found I had a half-flat tyre this morning.

 

Took to my local tyre place , and the locking bolt is seized solid. Tried 2 other places and no-one can shift it.

 

Got the puncture repaired with the wheel still on (never seen it fixed from outside before, but it seems to be holding ) and have the car booked in to the Citroen specialist who does my servicing. He says he does one of these wheel rescues roughly every 2 weeks. He's going to look at the clutch too.

 

Looks like a big bill coming!!

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Had a good day today. On top of my current clutch worries, found I had a half-flat tyre this morning.

 

Took to my local tyre place , and the locking bolt is seized solid. Tried 2 other places and no-one can shift it.

 

Got the puncture repaired with the wheel still on (never seen it fixed from outside before, but it seems to be holding ) and have the car booked in to the Citroen specialist who does my servicing. He says he does one of these wheel rescues roughly every 2 weeks. He's going to look at the clutch too.

 

Looks like a big bill coming!!

 

Is your locking bolt a key type or security socket type? Key types can be demolished quite easily in a matter of seconds with a large screw driver and an adjustable monkey grips (pathetically so). :unsure:

 

The security socket type can be opened with a special large socket that has many steel pins bundled together inside it. These pins can slide up into the socket leaving the rest to grip the outside surface of the bolt and also fill in the irregular pattern of the head perfectly. It then comes off as easy as a normal wheel bolt with no damage to the security bolt!

They were designed to get rounded off difficult to move nuts and bolts and are available from Snap-on tools. Invaluable piece of kit sometimes. No such thing as a secure set of alloys really :lol: Then again, not many opportunist thieves can afford snap-on gear :lol: :lol: :lol:

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It's the socket type - the pins in the socket have moved out of alignment, so won't grip.

I've seen the snap-on type kit you describe, but no-one seemed to have them today.

 

Anyway, the clutch went completely on the way home tonight - had to pay £125 to get the car recovered to the garage a bit earlier than planned.

 

Perfect end to a perfect day...

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