Wheels/Tyres: Dynomec Locking wheel nut removal system

[steventoon]

Reading this thread too late! The removal tool is mishapen on my 2003 S60. I've booked it in with a Dynomec using garage next Friday. I'll let you know how I get on.

Volvo were going to weld a nut on to the nuts and remove but want a £100 for all four to be removed.

[Sanzomat]

Thought I'd copy this over from the >07 V70 forum in case its is useful to anyone else who might not look there http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=73937 . I've also had a refund from McGard of the 18 euro I spent on a replacement key so all good.

Might not work if if your bolts are really seized but certainly worked for me...

Okay, I've got the bolt off! Hooray! Thanks for the advice but I thought I'd try a simpler version first before digging my old welding kit out of the back of my shed and sacrificing a trusty old ring spanner.
After sleeping on it I thought that maybe some two-part epoxy to glue the key to the bolt might do the trick and I'd got some araldite already. As the rounding of the key causes the key to lift out of the bolt when torqued I thought that as long as the glue bonded sufficiently to hold the clover leaf in then there should be enough contact for the cloverleaf pattern on the key to do the actual turning. As such there is a lot of contact surface between the inside of the key and the sides/face of the slip ring as well as the cloverleaf itself so there was a reasonable chance of success. I also thought that if it failed the likely result would be that the key would detach itself by the key lifting off the bolt so I'd be no worse off and the welding trick could still be done.
As it happened it has worked a treat. I cleaned both surfaces as best I could, marked the key and the wheel to note the position in which the key engaged, mixed up some araldite and smeared it liberally around the inside of the key. After pushing it in with the marks lined up I gave it a couple of hours to set firmly and then simply undid it. As it happens it wasn't particularly tight so I can't imagine why the bolt had damaged in the first place, must have been made of chocolate.
The damaged bolt and key are now permanently attached to one another but as they were going in the bin anyway thats no problem and no spanners were harmed in the process.
As an aside, I have had an email back from McGard offering to lend me a "drill-out kit" free of charge as long as I promise to send it back. They have also offered a free replacement for the key (and presumably the bolts) as long as I send back the damaged parts, but as I won't be installing them there doesn't seem much point in that. I've asked for a refund of my 18 euro so I'll see what response I get... .. to be fair, even though their product is rubbish, their customer service is faultless.

[T6 Power]

Originally Posted by Clan

the dynotec tool will be useless on these bolts . tried it!
There is NO easy or cheap way of getting these off .

It isnt the power guns which make these bolts stick.

Clan I suggest that before you start knocking methods of locking nut removal, you actually try them yourself with professionally trained staff using the tools.

To everyone's reading this post:

I took my car to Castleford near Wakefield from Manchester just so the specialists could do the job directly using the Dynomec tool. Within minutes the staff had removed a seized locking wheel bolt of the McGard type from Volvo S80 T6 with absolutely zero damage to the wheel, the car or the locking bolt.

Within a further 5 minutes the remaining locking bolts were removed too with even less trouble..

This system works 99% of the time according to staff doing the work. For £10 a wheel compared to possible the cost of replacing a damaged wheel through welding spammers etc this is work every penny and minute of my time.

Thanks to the guys at Dynomec in Castleford, who ever soooooo kindly removed the locking bolts for me.

Don't be put off with the BS going about that Volvo McGard locking wheel bolts cannot be undone. This is totally untrue. I was skeptical initially, until I let them try and I honestly tell you this. "You are safe and assured removal of those McGard locking bolts." (Assuming they are not mangled beyond recognition, they must still have some form of key pattern in the head even if the head is damaged)

T6 Power
manchester