I replaced my locking lugs with regular bolts. I'm gambling nobody is going to steal the wheels on a 12 year old car.
Whenever I get my cat back from a shop that has removed the wheels, I always re-torque the bolts to the right spec, although last time I was pleasantly surprised that Tire kingdom had torqued them correctly. Once, they were so tight, I couldn't break them by hand and had to go back to the shop to have them loosened with an impact wrench, and then watch them as they torqued the the bolts with a torque wrench.
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Current car
2000 Boxster 2.7l red/black
Previous cars
1973 Opel Manta
1969(?) Fiat 850 Convertible
1979 Lancia Beta Coupe
1981 Alfa Romeo GTV 6
1985 Alfa Romeo Graduate
1985 Porsche 944
1989 Porsche 944
1981 Triumph TR7
1989 (?) Alfa Romeo Milano
1993 Saab 9000
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