Ultimate Handyman | How to drill out a hard wheel bolt @ultimatehandyman | Uploaded September 2018 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
Drilling out a wheel bolt is never easy and should always be the last resort. If you do need to drill out a wheel bolt, the easiest way is by using a mag base drill. The wheel bolt in this video is a special anti-theft one and was made from a particularly hard steel alloy. Originally I tried to drill it using a regular HSS drill bit and even a cobalt drill bit but neither of those two would even mark the surface of the bolt. It’s common for anti-theft wheel bolts to be impossible to remove using the dedicated removal bit, probably a major cause of this is when garages fit wheels using impact wrenches instead of torqueing the bolts using a torque wrench.

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