Do You Know How to Protect Your Wheels From Thieves?
Wheel theft is not something new to you.
In one way or the other, maybe you have fallen victim at some point and if not you, maybe a friend.
Leaving your car unguarded is something that's unavoidable; in an open home garage after coming back from a trip or even outside a shop while out for shopping.
Thieves can come at any time.
They won't care whether the car is already in your home compound or outside a restaurant; their mission has to be accomplished.
So, what do you do to protect your wheels from being stolen? There is only one safe way to protect your wheels.
This is by the use of locking lug nuts.
The locking lug nuts once installed have a special key to use to unlock them.
This prevents anyone else from dispatching the wheels from your car apart from you who has the key.
This is how they are installed You will require a wheel lock key and a tire iron If your wheels are fitted with a hub cap, remove it.
This is the first step, but if no hub caps, you can start with step 2.
Using the tire iron, remove one lug nut from each of the wheels on your car.
Keep them in a safe place for later use.
Next, fasten locking lug nuts using your hands, on each wheel in place of the removed lug nuts.
This is followed by placing the lock key onto the locking lug nut.
Then tighten by the use of the tire iron.
Press it inward to ensure that it is tightly fixed.
Make sure you do this on all the wheels.
Take your car for a 25 miles ride and re-tighten the locking nuts again.
This will now ensure that your wheels are locked and safe.
Keep the key safe and always with you when driving.
You see, it's that easy.
Within a few minutes you are done.
So, what happens in case you lose your key and need replace the moto metal wheels? Do not worry, below is the way to go to remove the lock nuts.
Get a hammer, a breaker bar, chisel, large bolt, tig welder and a1/2 inch socket wrench.
Take the chisel and place its cutting side on top of the lock nut.
Hammer the chisel until the lock nut breaks off.
Make sure not to hit the underneath studs on which the nut is threaded on.
Take the large bolt and place it over the lock nut's end where it has been chiseled off.
Then position the end of the bolt and turn on the tig welder.
Then weld the end of the chiseled- off lock nut together with the bolt.
Place a sizeable socket wrench over the bolt.
Finally, take the breaker bar and place it through the end of the wrench.
Then turn it anticlockwise.
The bar turns and breaks the bolt off.
This in turn takes off the lock nut.
Repeat this on all the wheels.
This is an easy way to protect your American racing wheels and ensure their safety from thieves.
The process to remove the locks if the key is lost is also as simple as you have seen.
Lock your wheels.
Be safe.
In one way or the other, maybe you have fallen victim at some point and if not you, maybe a friend.
Leaving your car unguarded is something that's unavoidable; in an open home garage after coming back from a trip or even outside a shop while out for shopping.
Thieves can come at any time.
They won't care whether the car is already in your home compound or outside a restaurant; their mission has to be accomplished.
So, what do you do to protect your wheels from being stolen? There is only one safe way to protect your wheels.
This is by the use of locking lug nuts.
The locking lug nuts once installed have a special key to use to unlock them.
This prevents anyone else from dispatching the wheels from your car apart from you who has the key.
This is how they are installed You will require a wheel lock key and a tire iron If your wheels are fitted with a hub cap, remove it.
This is the first step, but if no hub caps, you can start with step 2.
Using the tire iron, remove one lug nut from each of the wheels on your car.
Keep them in a safe place for later use.
Next, fasten locking lug nuts using your hands, on each wheel in place of the removed lug nuts.
This is followed by placing the lock key onto the locking lug nut.
Then tighten by the use of the tire iron.
Press it inward to ensure that it is tightly fixed.
Make sure you do this on all the wheels.
Take your car for a 25 miles ride and re-tighten the locking nuts again.
This will now ensure that your wheels are locked and safe.
Keep the key safe and always with you when driving.
You see, it's that easy.
Within a few minutes you are done.
So, what happens in case you lose your key and need replace the moto metal wheels? Do not worry, below is the way to go to remove the lock nuts.
Get a hammer, a breaker bar, chisel, large bolt, tig welder and a1/2 inch socket wrench.
Take the chisel and place its cutting side on top of the lock nut.
Hammer the chisel until the lock nut breaks off.
Make sure not to hit the underneath studs on which the nut is threaded on.
Take the large bolt and place it over the lock nut's end where it has been chiseled off.
Then position the end of the bolt and turn on the tig welder.
Then weld the end of the chiseled- off lock nut together with the bolt.
Place a sizeable socket wrench over the bolt.
Finally, take the breaker bar and place it through the end of the wrench.
Then turn it anticlockwise.
The bar turns and breaks the bolt off.
This in turn takes off the lock nut.
Repeat this on all the wheels.
This is an easy way to protect your American racing wheels and ensure their safety from thieves.
The process to remove the locks if the key is lost is also as simple as you have seen.
Lock your wheels.
Be safe.
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