Vauxhall locking wheel nuts

[GSi-Col]

Right lost my locking wheel nut when i changed the new alloys over a few weeks back and didn't realise until my mate went to fix the front wheel bearing at the weekend. I've now found the car pass i got when i bought the car and it has a key number which has a letter then 4 numbers.
Does this sound like the code for the locking wheel nut?

[bigmac]

No thats your car key number the code for wheel nuts is in the box the nuts came in

[Leemarksmith]

thats for the car key bud... But if go to vaux they'll find you the number by matching the pattern, if there helpfull that is...

Too slow

[cerbrious]

[Dose]

cam also take upto 10 days to get IF the match it!

[GSi-Col]

cheers guys are there many different versions of the locking keys?

[Saxman]

if go to vaux they'll find you the number by matching the pattern, if there helpfull that is...

Correct, when I bought my motor, (Less than a month ago) a couple of days later I discovered that there was no locking wheel nut key anywhere in the car, went back to the place I had bought the car from (Non Vauxhall) and they told me to go to the local Main dealers, see what they said and come back to them.

I explained the problem to The local Vauxhall main dealers, they came outside, took a picture of the locking wheel nut, said that they would try and identify / match it, and e-mailed the picture to some dept within Vauxhall, this was after I had paid £28.00 of course.
(Which was still a better option than having my "19" Snowflakes butchered by someone attempting to remove them by other means).
They took my mobile number and said we'll be in touch within a couple of days.

Sure enough Two days later they texted me to say my wheel nut key had arrived, I went down and collected it, immediately tried it out and thankfully it fit perfect, I went back to the place I had bought the car from and they paid £20 towards the cost.

BTW, I think this option is only available to you if you have genuine Vauxhall locking wheel nuts fitted.

[Saxman]

cam also take upto 10 days to get IF the match it!

According to what my local main dealer told me, if it is a Vauxhall locking wheel nut and they get a decent picture of it, you would normally have the replacement in your possession in a couple of days.
They charged me £28.00 up front, but had they not been able to match / identify the locking nut, this would have been refunded.

[GSi-Col]

well been to one of the local stealers and they were no help at all and also managed to pop to the old owners house and have a chat with him but he didn't have a spare key or a note of the number

[ditchp]

do the dealer's not have a master set to get them off, then go and buy some Mc Guard ones....