Ugh, is there any decent strategy? 2009 Suburban with a weird internal-pattern lock, unlike most of the traditional ones.
Ugh, is there any decent strategy? 2009 Suburban with a weird internal-pattern lock, unlike most of the traditional ones.
Find the wheel lock key hidden in the trunk/glovebox/center console/under the passenger seat/in the seatback/door pocket/? GM should have it in a little plastic baggie with the lug wrench, or a special pocket in the lug wrench sleeve.
Hammer-a-socket doesn't work too well with the GM units. There are wheel lock removal kits that you hammer over but they don't always work well.
On one lug or all? Check the glovebox for a key? Internal has me thinking the method of hammering a sacrificial socket onto it isn't an option. Hammer and a chisel?
glueguy wrote: Ugh, is there any decent strategy? 2009 Suburban with a weird internal-pattern lock, unlike most of the traditional ones.
Is it one of the squiggly looking internal locks, or does it just look like a hex? Can't help with the squiggle, but the hex looking ones are really just a hex. As I have to explain to every shop that tries to take off my wheels.
glueguy wrote: Ugh, is there any decent strategy? 2009 Suburban with a weird internal-pattern lock, unlike most of the traditional ones.
Shotgun?
I have heard that you can stuff some heavy sandpaper into an over sized socket and it will jam. Adding some rough filing to the outside of the lug seems like it will help. I have not tried this, so I don't know if it works.
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i have those, they have not failed me yet. put on impact, put in reverse, blow them off, crank nut in vise and run it forward/off.
Weld a nut onto the top of it and zip it off with an impact wrench, then throw away. Had to do that to the 5 series BMW I flipped.
Go to a dealership. They have quite a few on hand that you can match up.
I did that when my mom lost the one to her Civic. The dealership was able to loan me a box full of different McGard keys
well, that was a fail. Tried to weld a nut onto it. The weld was good - so good that the locking nut tore. Grrrr.
Weld the locking nut 
If it's a wheel with a big center cap that gives you space for such things, carefully spin it off with an air chisel. Or maybe cut a slot in it with a cutting wheel and use a big 1/2 inch drive "drag link socket" screwdriver? Spiral flute extractor socket?
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