Thread: D2 wheel nuts

The wheel nut size is the same as your lock nut key - 27mm.

The thin covers on the wheel nuts stay on. It's the cover on the lock nut itself that needs to come off. There is a remover supplied with the car when new but it sounds like you might not have it now.
ANR5436 is the LR part number.

Silly question

Have you checked under the rear seat for all the jack and wheel brace accessories? Thats where the factory hid them

Cheers
Jason

Hi, in emergency you can remove the covers off the locking nuts with a large flat bladed screw driver although the real thing works best. If you are after a wheel nut spanner, I use a good quality breaker bar and a 6 sided 27mm socket, available from stores such as Repco or specialised tool resellers.

Erich

I would use a 3/4 drive breaker bar and single hex 27 mm socket as per above post. I actually use a sidcrome 3/4 drive rachet with a lenght of pipe on it, but others said that I should not use a rachet like that, though I have done this since the early 1970's. It was on smaller nuts of VW's originally.

Hi All
Yes the lock nut cover remover is not that strong and being plastic broke. Now I use two small screw drivers one each side. And the lock nut key it self can split as mine did, had a little bit of trouble getting a tight nut off. Thanks to a rattle gun... I used my foot to try and crack it and it went side ways and split...hammer and welder fixed that ....no not the tight nut!! the nut key..just some thing to watch out for....Robert42

Southern's on Albany Hwy have the plastic tool for removing the lock nut covers in stock. Can't remember what it cost, but wasn't much - I bought one there a couple of months ago.

Get yourself some replacement non-security wheel nuts for your d2. Chances of anyone trying to steal a D2 wheel pretty slim. As someone said the key that goes with security nut splits.

All of those tools that you are missing, should be in the black bag in the pocket, inside the back door.
But I'm sure you've already checked there.

Greg