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Tool Pants · 11-11-2004, 12:31 PM

You need this special socket to remove the locking wheel bolts. Search the car. Including the tool kit, spare tire cover, door pockets. The only times we have not been able to find it is on a used car, or a car that had a tire replacement.

There are about 30 different sockets. If you give up then your dealer should have a kit of all the sockets. By tiral and error they try them all until one fits. Then they know the part number for a replacement socket.

Or, do what I finally did. I removed the locking wheel bolt from each wheel and replaced them with the standard wheel bolt. The standard bolts are about $5 each. So it sounds like your dealer wants to sell you a socket and 4 new locking bolts which come in a kit.

11-11-2004, 12:31 PM	#2
Tool Pants Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: San Jose Posts: 1,889	You need this special socket to remove the locking wheel bolts. Search the car. Including the tool kit, spare tire cover, door pockets. The only times we have not been able to find it is on a used car, or a car that had a tire replacement. There are about 30 different sockets. If you give up then your dealer should have a kit of all the sockets. By tiral and error they try them all until one fits. Then they know the part number for a replacement socket. Or, do what I finally did. I removed the locking wheel bolt from each wheel and replaced them with the standard wheel bolt. The standard bolts are about $5 each. So it sounds like your dealer wants to sell you a socket and 4 new locking bolts which come in a kit. Last edited by Tool Pants; 11-11-2004 at 12:35 PM.