Hey guys, how many of you have already switched to your summer wheel/tires? anyways, i tried to switch them in my driveway today, however, i cannot remove the wheel lock on the winter wheel because it has special patterns on it. I went to canadian tire to see if i can find any handles that can remove it but the guy there says i have to go back to where i buy it to get it remove, it's like a key for that wheel or something. Does that mean i have to goto the wheel storeand pay to switch my wheels everytime then? Have anyone experience this? btw, i have 17s eagle six spoke, i'll call Jerry on monday to see what's happening.

 

You should have the key for whichever security nuts you have on your wheels in case of repair, or wheel change etc.
Here's a pics of both my wheel nuts and keys - summer on the right, and winter on the left.
Be sure when you find the key(s) to carry it with you onboard for wheel changes.

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Humm... i found the wheel key for winter, which is the one you have for your summer. If i remember right, i didn't think there was a security nut for the 18 oems, i never saw those flower pattern nuts on the summer wheels. But i may be wrong. So i guess those nuts are from my winter are the same one to use on my summer wheels, basically i should just use the same nuts from the winter wheels and then put it on the summer wheels, is that correct? However, i cannot find that long black wheel key you have and i think i do need that for the 4 other wheel nuts (not the one with security) Here is what i found with the key:

 

Neohh, What you've got there in your pic is the 'key' (socket) you need to remove the 4 special 'nuts' (one on each wheel).
The other is just a regular nut used on the other 4 studs.
Those are used with the summer wheels.

In my picture, the long socket and nut on the left is what I use with my winter Enkei wheels only.
The other is the same socket key that you have. (used for my summer OEM wheels)

I don't know what winter wheels you have. The summer lug nuts and security nuts may not fit properly.
I had to have a different set of nuts and key for my winter set because the oem's wouldn't fit the Enkei's properly.

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Yep, those are the OEM nuts and the OEM special locking nut. I also used the same OEM nuts on my winter wheels (Ronal).

The OEM nuts may be too wide to fit on some after-market wheels. If the OEM nuts were too big, then you'd need "thinner" nuts (with a different special key for the locking nut).