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Help! Need Mopar locking lug nut taken off.

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I bought my Jeep jku from a small dealership. Long story short, they lost the locking lug nut key! I need a 7 hump flower pattern key to help me take them off. Please help your boy out!
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Welcome to the forum. Any larger tire shop can get them off. You might also have some luck sending a good picture to the major lock companies like McGard. If it there’s they w I’ll send you a key.
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Take it to any larger tire shop. They'll have pretty much every key for locking lugs.
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Clamp that bitch down tight, and turn. The spinning collars are pretty easy to deform and bend I to place so they stop spinning.

Or use a rotary tool to cut the spinning part off.

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Welcome to the Forum!
Discount Tire has the capability to remove them.
I bought my Jeep jku from a small dealership. Long story short, they lost the locking lug nut key!
Did they have it at one point, and then lost it (like while doing a service)? Or did they (or you) never actually see it? If the latter, I would search your JKU to see where someone might have thought it was a good place to hide it.
Large vice grips with a short length of pipe and they come right off.

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yeah, I would use a Discount Tire all day for that problem. But I have seen sockets, simular to an ez out, at AutoZone to remove those.
McGard makes these for Mopar. You should be able to contact them and they can help if you simply want to get a new key.
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I'm surprised at the dealership you purchased at; If its a JEEP dealer most I know have the McGard Master KEY set to use in the service dept. Agree most Big Box Tire Stores would probably have the McGard set.
They make a tool to remove them, emergency tool. You won't reuse them after. But, it is threaded such that as you soin it off, the socket spins on. Works great, but needed a vice to get them out after, they really stick on. Would suck in an emergency I would think. But they do work.

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I've read so many people who say they got theirs off with vice grips, but I used slip jaw pliers to close the vice grips and the ring still spun. Even with the ring cut off, vice grips and a pipe came off before the nut. Mine were torqued too tight by some tire shop.

And of course the jeep dealers don't have the key set for the jeep branded locks. I couldn't believe it either, seems like terrible customer service. But then again, so is selling a jeep without the key, or trading it in without the key. I wish the previous owner and my dealership, a lifetime of flat tires for their rudeness.

A tire shop said they'd get them off for $100 (jeep dealer wanted $250!), and in hindsight I should have done that. But here is what works:
Angle grinder with a metal cutoff wheel, cut straight in to those grooves, in a square and then again to get the corner bits, so you can slide the ring off.
Then you need a 13/16 emergency lug nut extractor, if the vice grips don't work. Autozone, Advanced Auto or Pep Boys, not Oreillys, their kit is too big even though it's the same fraction. You need one per tire, they get stuck on pretty well, unless you have a bench vise and can grind flats into the lug nuts after taking them off. And an air impact wrench to get the lug nut extractor to really bite in.

If you have time to kill, supposedly McGard will sell you a key with proof of ownership and a photo. But that miserable company will never get a dollar from me. As far as I know my car insurance covers stolen tires, my tires aren't fancy anyways, and I want to be able to get them off in case of a flat without worrying about losing keys in the future.
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But then again, so is selling a jeep without the key, or trading it in without the key. I wish the previous owner and my dealership, a lifetime of flat tires for their rudeness.
I agree with a lot of your points, but could not let stand my pet-peeve without making a comment.

I can't get over the number of people who think they are screwing the dealer, by intentionally doing stuff like this to their trade-in, when in fact they are only screwing the next owner. :eek:
discount a good bet. also most any chrysler jeep dealer will have the key
I agree with a lot of your points, but could not let stand my pet-peeve without making a comment.

I can't get over the number of people who think they are screwing the dealer, by intentionally doing stuff like this to their trade-in, when in fact they are only screwing the next owner. :eek:
that is why when I had the tyres done on my jeep I told the shop do what ever you want with the locking nuts, they are NOT going to be going back on, and bought all new lugnuts (all 20) and put those on instead...and threw the locks and old ones into the recycle bin never too be seen again
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