RE: Wheel Lock Warning

["Stanton, John" <JStanton@newsamerica.com>]

Been there done that. It was awful weather cold rain not snow and just North
of St. Johnsbury VT on Rt 91.  The hero of the day none other than a trusty
pair of vice grips that live in the glove box.  Eventhough I often have a
tool box in the trunk, I always leave a flashlight, two screw drivers and a
pair of vice grips in the glove box.

Good luck, hope it fits on you lug.

JJS



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matthew Brenengen [SMTP:audi@stribmail.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 06, 1999 10:19 PM
> To:	quattro-digest@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	Wheel Lock Warning
> 
> Before you consider wheel locks, consider my story...
> 
> At the begining of this winter, with the windchill reaching far below
> zero, my wife called me with a flat tire on the QSW.  When I got there to
> change it, I realized that the PO had used wheel locks.  Fortunately, the
> "key", a small lug nut-looking thing was in the glove box.  Old tire off,
> new tire on, as fast as I could as my hands were getting frostbitten.  As
> I followed her home, I noticed something weird looking on the space-saver
> spare.  I pulled up beside her, but did not really see... the key that I
> had forgotten to take off.  When we got home, I was going to put a real
> spare on, and the key was nowhere to be found.  I realized then that it
> was lost, somewhere on the road in the five miles between where I changed
> the tire and home.  I called all the tire places, but since I had no idea
> what kind of key it was, they could not help me.  I had but one choice.
> The next day, I trolled slowly along those five miles, and low and behold!
> I found it in the gutter.  Unbelievab!
> le.
> 
> That same day, I went to the junk yard and bought 4 used lug nuts to
> replace the keyed ones.  Well, last weekend, I finally got around to
> swapping the lugs.  The first keyed lug I tried snapped the key-shape
> thing off in the nut.
> 
> I now have half a key that doesn't do anything and two wheels that I
> cannot remove.  I am not sure what to do.  Suggestions anyone?
> 
> (p.s.  I know losing the key was my fault, but we all do stupid things
> from time to time -- just a warning before you get the locks.)
> 
> 
> 
> Matthew Brenengen
> '87 4kq; '88 QSW; '76 '02 
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