Originally Posted by BinaryJay

Nobody around seemed to have any 12 point sockets anywhere... last place I go to (of course) was Home Depot.. they had 2 sizes of sockets 19 and 21 that were 12 point husky... that's it. Bought both and got lucky the 19mm hammered onto the busted nut and I was able to remove it with a cheater bar in a total of like 30 seconds from start to finish (in the parking lot). Price was kind of a ripoff at 5 dollars a piece... but oh well. Definitely ruined the socket, I can't separate it from the lug at all any more and i can tell it's mangled... but for 5 bucks it's worth it, I was sure if I let a shop take it off they'd probably ruin the wheel and then charge me 40 bucks for the privilege.

Went to Toyota/Lexus and bought new regular lugs to replace the locks for a dollar each. Now I can finally get around to putting my winter wheels on hurrah.

Originally Posted by BinaryJay

Nobody around seemed to have any 12 point sockets anywhere... last place I go to (of course) was Home Depot.. they had 2 sizes of sockets 19 and 21 that were 12 point husky... that's it. Bought both and got lucky the 19mm hammered onto the busted nut and I was able to remove it with a cheater bar in a total of like 30 seconds from start to finish (in the parking lot). Price was kind of a ripoff at 5 dollars a piece... but oh well. Definitely ruined the socket, I can't separate it from the lug at all any more and i can tell it's mangled... but for 5 bucks it's worth it, I was sure if I let a shop take it off they'd probably ruin the wheel and then charge me 40 bucks for the privilege.

Originally Posted by zax3gs

Just remember once you get it loose to tap the socket off of the lug otherwise its a real PITA to get it off.

Originally Posted by IXI187IXI

glad to hear it worked out. 12 point socket is the way to go, just gives you more bite/grip. you should have followed this but hey, its only a $5 husky socket

Originally Posted by BinaryJay

I tried, but I didn't want to bang on it too much because my stud was more important to me than the socket. Even tried slamming the thing on a big stone a bunch of times after ... it's really jammed in there and already in the garbage hehe.