jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key

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Tue 6 Jul 2010 17:37
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - donnabutler

My husbad has lost the locking nut key, we hav got 3 of the nuts off but one of them we just cant do, the dome bit spins and we cant get a socket to fit in the hole. We have taken teh car to almost every garage and trye place in aldershot/farnborough and no one can do it. we have called out the AA and they cant do it. None of the standard locking nut removal tools work as apparently jags are different, any ideas on how to get this b***** nut off??

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Tue 6 Jul 2010 17:48
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - Falkirk Bairn

With the original packaging of the locknuts would come a reference number that equates to the locknut pattern

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Tue 6 Jul 2010 17:58
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - donnabutler

We don't have the original packaging, we bought the car 2nd hand in 08, the nuts were on the car then. They are jaguar locking nuts.

We have been told there is a letter stamped on the nuts and this would then helpus to know at least whcih key we needed but there is no letter on any of the 3 nuts we have taken off.

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Tue 6 Jul 2010 18:47
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - Collos25

http://www.screwfix.com/talk/thread.jspa?threadID=44506

Lots of ideas here

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Tue 6 Jul 2010 20:15
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - bathtub tom

>>They are jaguar locking nuts.

Have you tried a Jaguar dealer?

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Tue 6 Jul 2010 21:31
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - Ben 10

I had an Xtype and the car came without the LWN. I took it to a Jaguar dealership and they removed free of charge. All I had to do was buy a new set of LWN (4) and a new key.

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Wed 7 Jul 2010 08:33
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - Honestjohn

These people are supposed to be the best: http://www.mcgard.com">www.mcgard.com

HJ

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Wed 7 Jul 2010 11:07
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - mike hannon

Bit of a long shot, but have you thought of trying a Ford dealer? The X Type is a Ford really so maybe locking nuts from the Mondeo it is based on would be the same?

I know if I need a replacement key for my Jaguar a Fiesta one will fit...

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Wed 11 Dec 2013 07:36
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - dodger99

These people are supposed to be the best in the country, they removed my x-type lockers.

(Links removed - this is a new poster who has resurrected a three-year-old thread. I suspect an attemnpt at free advertising.)

Edited by Avant on 11/12/2013 at 23:01

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Wed 11 Dec 2013 08:19
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - jc2

The storeman at our local Ford dealer keeps a complete set of all the locking nuts Ford have ever used-so he can order the correct one when you sort out which it is.Try your Jag dealer.

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Wed 11 Dec 2013 08:42
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - Armitage Shanks {p}

I have a 7 year old car and was only given one locking nut plus a referenece number. I got rid the locking nuts,as I didn't want to finish up in OP's situation, and replaced then with ordinary ones, on the basis that they alloys aren't that special and my own garage said that whole cars are stolen now and nobody bother to steal just the wheels

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Wed 11 Dec 2013 08:44
jaguar x type 54 plate - Lost locking nut key - Armitage Shanks {p}

Thesep eople have been recommended by HJ for years and might be able to help - don't know how far they are from you? http://www.micheldever.co.uk/

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