# Removing "tuner lugs" without the key

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [June 9, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/removing-tuner-lugs-without-the-key/30622 "2007-06-09T23:19:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mysterio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mysterio](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mysterio)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/removing-tuner-lugs-without-the-key/30622/2 "2007-06-10T00:18:13Z")

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Buy a crappy socket or find a spare socket that you don’t want anymore. Find one that is just small enough that it won’t fit over the outside of the lock nut. Take a hammer and pound it over anyways. Bust out the ratchet and remove. The lock not then becomes not re-usable, or at least… It’s a bitch to get the socket off the lock nut. I did that when I had a single lock nut on a car I bought and no key. Worked perfectly and took about 45 seconds extra time.

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