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"Sly" nuts and bolts

Becoming car owners, each of us is trying every way he knew to protect their offspring from the attacks. If the "internal organs" somehow protected from unwanted exposure to potential offenders, all that is on the outside, is subject not only to the winds, and "caring" hands on "professionals."

If you decide to buy a set of four bolts ("Antitheft") and key-Adapter, we advise you not to rush. Walking only one car market, we counted 12 varieties of such sets. Their prices vary depending on the material from which they are made and the original structure.

There is a clear consumer goods, which is a bolt-cam with the same key. Bolt with large height eccentric head is not protected against twisting pipe wrench. This option may be interested owners of those vehicles, which are alloy wheels with deep seats under the "key lock". The price of such protection - 3 to $ 5

Bolts to scroll through the protective ring and with the same eccentric worth up to $ 10. But the ring is jarring when driving, creating the impression that the car with a rope tied cans. Many get rid of this noise, tighten up under the base of the bolt from simple gum curlers.

When he reached the price of 15 USD, secret bolts beginning to resemble not "ugly ducklings" that Zamora rust on the counter in the open air, and white swans, proudly raising his head over a heap of steel all shaybochek, gaechek, cogs, prokladochek lying right. Typically, these "sekretki" are high-quality, appropriate heat treatment and the presence of the protective coating.

Design options too much. All of them, usually with a protective ring attached to the bolt through the rubber seal eliminates the extraneous noise. They have not one but two keys (one spare). The forms themselves, "secrets" are quite varied. Starting from the most simple, but sanitized eccentrics, to intricate splines: these, in our opinion, the most reliable and convenient for installation.

By the last class are those which cost - from 15 to 25 cu .. These instances as if descended from the paintings of the avant-garde. Then you and the "three leaves", and nuts of irregular shape, and a truncated cone and bolts with the keyhole-like character "Behind the wheel - the deaf." All of them are made with protective ring. There is a very comfortable and practical, but there are also questionable in their fitness to work.

Buying "sekretki" in our town, you usually are not insured by the fact that the same key is not present, and the attacker. The fact that the manufacturers are unlikely to change the size of bolts and keys to them, providing individuality of each set. Hence, if we put "sekretki", then acquired in another city. Either specially ordered from a friend turner. In this case, the likelihood that the wheel will get to your neighbor to park, have less but ...

Yet sense to install sekretki is - among the potential candidates for your wheels excluded technically inexperienced boys, for "unauthorized" removal of the wheels requires additional time, but as a result of careless manipuliyatsy competent intruders installed car alarm system can manage to work. Unless, of course, hackers are not literate enough to her "neutralize."

We will not go into the technical details, so tempting "irresponsible." Let's just say that if the owners light-alloy wheels with indentations hiding head bolts can "sleep" in the presence of a "sekretki" on wheels, steel wheels makes sense to attach three or four "tricky" bolts (or nuts), preferably different that is expensive and troublesome. However, healthy sleep is more expensive.