I was taking off my LF wheel to adjust the bearing, and sheared off the pins on my wheel lock tool. I had been planning to replace these with normal nuts, I guess this is my chance. Fortunately, the front wheels are on adapters/spacers, and I can get to those nuts just fine. However the rears have these locks on them and no spacers. I guess I'm going to have to repair the tool, otherwise I'll be pulling the hubs so I can grind off the offending stud. And I just did one of the rear bearings.

P.S. Anyone know where these things came from? Don't believe they're made by Porsche? They were on there when I bought the car.

 

Can't you just use a locking lugnut removal tool?

ETA: The ones designed for removing if you lost the key, of course.

 

I'll give it a shot, but considering the small size of the holes in question, I have my doubts about the ability of such a tool to deal with these. Anyone happen to have one of these I can borrow in the triangle area? (Raleigh here).