I bought a used Volvo for my wife. I didn’t know it had locking lug nuts on it. The car did not come with a key to remove them. None of the tire dealers in my small town had keys or could get the ...

Locking lug nuts are common on newer vehicles as well as on custom and aftermarket wheels. They can only be removed with a special key, and their purpose is to deter theft. You can replace just one or ...

They make great theft deterrents, until you realize you've misplaced your key. Here's how to solve the problem of locking lug ...

I recently bought a car at a small independent dealership. The dealer only had one key for my new car so I decided to contact the previous owner. The previous owner said he had left two keys with the ...

Many of us were in the internet room when “because race car” happened—you should be humming “The Room Where It Happens”—and that original Craigslist post for a Mazda MX-3 joyfully spurred lots of fun ...

Recently, we had our 2005 Toyota RAV4 taken in for its regularly scheduled maintenance, which included rotating the tires. Each tire has a locking lug nut, and when I picked up the car, my mechanic ...

I was stupefied. This was unexpected exotica so fresh the paint was still damp and so extreme that other cars in the showroom dissolved into nothingness. I can vividly recall the rifled exhaust tips, ...

This nifty device has been around for a while - here's how to use it A MECHANIC has revealed the “single most important item” you must keep in your car when visiting a garage – and it’s not fuel. The ...

Without exception, the biggest headache for repair shops anywhere (and among the top 10 for car owners) are locking wheel nuts. If you bought your current ride new from almost any of the over 3,200 ...