They make great theft deterrents, until you realize you've misplaced your key. Here's how to solve the problem of locking lug ...

They work by replacing one lug nut on each wheel with a locking nut that requires a special key to remove. While they are not 100% foolproof, they can make it more difficult for thieves to steal ...

Most cars have four or five lug nuts per wheel, while trucks have more like six to eight. That’s a lot of wheel nuts to keep track of…and a few things can go wrong with any one of them over time.

Car jack; Tire iron or lug wrench; Spare tire. Depending on the make and model of your vehicle, you may also need alignment studs, a wheel cover or lug nut wheel lock key and extension bars for the ...

If you have a metal lathe just looking for some work, why not make your own lock nuts? That’s what [my mechanics insight] did when faced with a peculiar lock nut that needed replacing in a car.

After returning home from service we realized the tire rotation supposedly done could not have been done without my locking lug nut key. Checkout documents identified all work completed ...

Viewer-submitted questions for The Car Doctor: Q: I have a 2021 Hyundai Tucson, and a dashboard light keeps signaling that ...

Another use case is leader election. If you only want one host to be the leader, then this lock client is a great way to pick one. When the leader fails, it will fail over to another host within a ...

It will be used by the app to load the settings. All config options are: &unlock@!@ctrl+q # Shortcut to unlock (Examples: ctrl+q, alt+s, shift+ctrl+q) &onstart_lock_keyboard@!@false # Lock keyboard on ...

Most digital torque wrenches are accurate to within two percent. You pay more for a better accuracy rating, but generally speaking, all digital torque wrenches are more accurate than their analog ...