Have you seen these wheel locks before?
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I saw these at the wrecking yard. I've never seen this style before, I've only seen the factory style that uses a key, and the later style that uses a round nut with grooves and a special socket with matching humps.
These look like they use a socket that goes inside the nut, and I guess there's a cap that screws over the nut?
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I'd love to see a wheel lock that's too hard for a thief to bother with. The older factory locks with tumblers are easy to drill, and it looks like the later ones with special sockets can just be taken off with a bolt extractor but I've never tried it.
These look like they use a socket that goes inside the nut, and I guess there's a cap that screws over the nut?
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I'd love to see a wheel lock that's too hard for a thief to bother with. The older factory locks with tumblers are easy to drill, and it looks like the later ones with special sockets can just be taken off with a bolt extractor but I've never tried it.
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^ Those look nice, but they are cone seat as well! Porsche wheels are ball seat. I like the design though, hopefully they make a ball seat nut version.
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I have them on my 944 with a ball seal so they should be fine.
They also saved my wheels (and more!) one time when someone tried to steal my wheels. However, I didn't notice until after making a 120 mile trip. To make it worse, my front right wheel was held on by only the wheel lock!![EEK!](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif)
It did explain those occasional vibrations at speed, tho...
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They also saved my wheels (and more!) one time when someone tried to steal my wheels. However, I didn't notice until after making a 120 mile trip. To make it worse, my front right wheel was held on by only the wheel lock!
![EEK!](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif)
It did explain those occasional vibrations at speed, tho...
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Fortunately, I had the factory locks in my glove box that I never got rid of so when I got back to the hotel I decided to put two locks on per wheel. ![Smilie](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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