Lock Nuts?

[Jake02]

My dad went to get the rear tyres changed around 6 months ago and we were in the waiting room one of the workmen came in and asked where the adaptor for the locking-wheelnut was. We had no clue of the car actually having one, but there is one locking-wheelnut on every wheel (leaving 4 normal other wheelnuts on every wheel) and he said that this is standard equipment on most Euro vehicles.

The adaptor is in the little storage spot above the spare-wheel (where the jack etc is placed) and my 08' RS has it so I'm not sure about other models. The locking nut is visibly different to the others so it would be easy to spot.

[K1W1]

There are no wheel lock nuts on my car.
The tool kit (I'm using the term euphemistically) consists on a jack, a wheel brace and a towing eye. There is a cut out in the foam for a lock nut "key" but there is no key present. I have also checked all five wheel nuts on each wheel and every one of them is a standard wheel nut. There are no keyed nuts with covers over them.

[woofy]

To be honest I'm pretty sure my pre FL had them on it, as I vaguely remember being shown where the adaptor was. I wonder what else has been dropped silently from the RS.

So far:

Interior alarm
and for a while the heated seats was gone, but seems back
lock nuts

But you now get the Bolero and the MDI option and LED DRLs....the other things are comparable really.

[kenvik_7]

Hi everyone, apologies for resurrecting this thread. But I just wanted to confirm that the FL RS does not come with wheel locking bolts and hence we need to purchase these separately in case we want to protect our wheels?

Assuming this (and I'm still awaiting the delivery of my RS sedan - hoping to get it by 3rd week of March), I wanted to ask if anyone has purchased McGards Locking bolts for their RS?

My research (on Briskoda and VW Vortex) showed that they are quite reputable. So I now want to now confirm the correct size of locking bolts for for FL RS wheels (18" Neptunes), before ordering these.

McGards site search shows that the correct bolt type and size for the VW Gti (Mk V onwards) is M14 x 1.5 Thread Size, Radius type seat. The part no. is 28018. The bolt length is 1.84" with Shank length 1.05"

Unfortunately McGard's site does not have Skoda cars listed and hence I can't fit the exact part no. for the RS.

I wanted to request if any one can please confirm whether these will fit on the RS (or does the bolt length seem a bit short?).

I want to ask my cousin who is visting me from the US to buy a set for me (as the price of these in the US is really cheap as compared to Oz), and hence I'd really appreciate your assistance at the earliest.

Thanks guys.

[woofy]

Hi everyone, apologies for resurrecting this thread. But I just wanted to confirm that the FL RS does not come with wheel locking bolts and hence we need to purchase these separately in case we want to protect our wheels?

Assuming this (and I'm still awaiting the delivery of my RS sedan - hoping to get it by 3rd week of March), I wanted to ask if anyone has purchased McGards Locking bolts for their RS?

My research (on Briskoda and VW Vortex) showed that they are quite reputable. So I now want to now confirm the correct size of locking bolts for for FL RS wheels (18" Neptunes), before ordering these.

McGards site search shows that the correct bolt type and size for the VW Gti (Mk V onwards) is M14 x 1.5 Thread Size, Radius type seat. The part no. is 28018. The bolt length is 1.84" with Shank length 1.05"

Unfortunately McGard's site does not have Skoda cars listed and hence I can't fit the exact part no. for the RS.

I wanted to request if any one can please confirm whether these will fit on the RS (or does the bolt length seem a bit short?).

I want to ask my cousin who is visting me from the US to buy a set for me (as the price of these in the US is really cheap as compared to Oz), and hence I'd really appreciate your assistance at the earliest.

Thanks guys.

I do honestly wonder whether there is much benefit putting them on at all. I've never had wheels stolen, I've never heard of anyone since the 80s getting their wheels stolen unless they are the real mag alloys that some cars eg Porsche use. Once upon a time only certain cars had alloys, these days they come with pretty much every model, and if you go to sell the OEM ones they are worth bugger all.

[K1W1]

Commodore and Falcon wheels are regularly stolen because they are used on trailers. There are very few instances of other vehicles having wheels stolen and in my experience of my last two cars having factory lock nuts they are a pain in the rectum whenever you take the car in for service or a tyre change.

[kenvik_7]

I agree that these days one hardly hears about 'mags' getting stolen, but I just feel why take a chance. Its better to be safe than sorry, and I hear that replacement 18th Neptunes from the dealer are about $500 each!
Also since the bolts are currently on speacial in US, I was thinking - why not?

[K1W1]

and I hear that replacement 18th Neptunes from the dealer are about $500 each!

Don't forget another $250 or so (I'm guessing) for the tyre. I've never seen a wheel thief take just the rim and leave the rubber.

[Dutch]

I must be one of the only victims here, when i took ownership of my 05 BSpec Liberty, 14 days later I found it on wheels jacks in our security carpark in Camperdown with all 4 18" wheels gone. I looked at lock nuts after this but all the tyre dealers sort of iterated that if they want them they will get them even with lock nuts.

I'm not going to bother with lock nuts for the RS even though i've had it happen. I did look at the McGard's back then and they seemed to be the best at the time.