How to get locking lugs off.

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It is way easier to find a master "key" set and just take them off.
If they are set back in on an alloy wheel and the "Jerry Rig" technique fails you will regret it!
If these are steel wheels you are ok... just grind 2 sides flat and clamp the biggest *** Visegrip you can find on it ....
They are most likely McGaurds brand on a domestic car. The master sets are fairly common at tire stores and dealrships.
 
Take an angle grinder and cut 6 sides onto it. Put your favorite beater 6 point on it and turn it off. Now getting a galled lug nut off a spinning stud is a *****. Neighbor got lucky and spun one on the front where a simple spindle nut under the dust cap kept the entire hub on. He's F'n with it on the spindle and I told him to just take the bearing nut off and pull the entire wheel and drum off. It was an old Ford truck. We ended up cutting the head of the wheel stud off with an angle grinder.
 
Cut a slot for air chisel to bite into.
Drill through nut and stud -replace everything.
Stick weld a pipe onto nut and crank it off with a pipe wrench.

Look again for the key.

Done em all.

Then there’s the guy that keeps the key at home....
 
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