Locking Wheel Bolts
Locking Wheel Bolts won’t stop your car from being stolen, but they will do a great job in protecting your wheels and tyres from being removed, and are another cheap and effective investment to help safeguard your property. Locking Bolts are a simple idea – you replace one retaining bolt on each of your 4 wheels with a locking one, which then requires a special adaptor to be placed over the top of the bolt to allow it to be released, meaning that wheels cannot be removed without this adaptor.
It is worth noting that this adaptor should be securely hidden inside your car, so that a potential thief does not just break in and find it easily. The adaptor also should not be left at home just in case you have a flat tyre, puncture or blow out as you will not be able to change the wheel for the spare tyre without it, and don’t forget to take it with you when you are having new tyres fitted too!
These bolts are a great investment if you have a new and desirable set of alloy wheels fitted to the car, but can protect your tyres just as well, with tyres being particularly expensive nowadays. Fitments are usually universal, with just one diameter bolt used on most cars, meaning the bolts can be removed and fitted to your next car should you purchase a new one, making them a great lifetime investment.
The quality of the bolts is usually dependent on just how difficult they are to remove for criminals, and how easy it might be to make a master copy of the adaptor to remove them – the more complicated the design and amount of variations available, the more secure the wheels. Manufacturers often now fit locking wheel nuts to their new cars as standard equipment when alloys are fitted ,but these typically only have 20 – 30 different combinations, so a buying your own bolts with 1000+ combinations is a much safer idea.
There are several reviews and tests online regarding Locking wheel Blots, and one of the best is from UK car magazine Auto Express – follow this link to read their comprehensive review with a security expert attempting to remove several types of bolts.
Follow this link: Auto Express Review
Finally, many thanks go to Orangewheels.co.uk who supply Volkswagen UK Cars in the UK for their free help in compiling this website.