Hi there,

I recently got myself Mk2.5 Focus and all wheel nuts were seized. After heating up the breaks I managed to free most of them by jumping on my breaker bar!!! Sadly it eventually cost me my hexagon socket. Already replaced :-) 

Anyhow I couldn't get enough leverage on the locking wheel nuts due to small contact area. My first locking key just snapped off inside and another rounded off. 

I used milling bit from set from Lidl to cut through the side of the rotating ring and hammered on the socket but that's just wasn't enough to free them. Socket slid off when I applied great force onto the breaker bar. 

I then drilled little wholes in the locking wheel nuts to get to the thread. I sprayed WD40 inside and hammered the 16 point socket again and this time it worked with reasonable force. The thread was not damaged by the drilling. 

Local garage quoted £25 per wheel nut and added they would not guarantee success and may have to call specialist to weld onto the nuts. 

 

I just thought I'd share it here with you folks as I know one day someone might be in a similar pickle as I was over the past week. Lucky I didn't have flat tyre so had plenty of time to come up with a solution. 

I was thinking of using special reverse thread socket but first, the space around Ford wheel nuts is very limited and second, mine were so tight I don't think I would have managed to get them off without penetrating fluid on the thread. 

I have been spraying WD40 onto the nuts but they were so tight that none has gone through to the threads even doing it every day for a week. 

I'll try attaching the photos. 

 

Here are some more photos.. I have knackered 4 drill bits in that process but getting the from Lidl was much cheaper then letting garage to do it..

Sadly the socket suffer too