secsip

There are some tire thieves in the city I live in that have been stealing tires from cars parked in their driveways. I am lucky to have space in my garage to park my car, but sometimes I have a weekend project that takes me a weekend to complete where I am using up that garage floor space and park my GX in the driveway….which I won’t be doing anymore.

The thieves take out the flood lights a night or 2 before stealing the tires. A vehicle drops their friends off, circles around the neighborhood, and when they come back around, they pick their friends up and load the newly stolen tires.

I have one of those “lug-nut” wheel locky things. (I know, I don’t have the proper lingo.)

My questions are:

1. Does this little “lug-nut key” help prevent MY tires from being taken?
2. Would the lug-nut key work on any GX470 or is it special for my car only? I doubt it is the later, but still hopeful.
3. Any recommendations on how to protect tires from being stolen if you don’t have a garage?

Thank you.

vmirjamali

Yea sleep 3 nights in your car with a shot gun. They'll never come back.

secsip

The thought has crossed my mind.

Lexus 4 ME

It will require special jack to lift GX, I dont think they will still GX tires.

Turbinator

Need to make sure you're a light sleeper, else you might sleep right through the jacking up, tire removal, and getaway.

Turby

VictorGX

Yes, your locking lug nuts should keep the thieves from targeting your car. They are likely looking for easy targets -- and will not want to mess around with using a lug-nut key.

Additionally, I've been told that those lug-nut keys are not "universal." There may be 20-30 different patterns out there for Lexus lug nuts. So even if the thieves did happen to have a "Lexus" lug-nut key, chances are slim that it would mate with your lug nuts.

If possible, you may want to park your truck right next to a wall, bushes, or other obstacle. If the thieves can't easily access all four rims, hopefully they would just move on.

werewolf

Tires = wheels (metal and rubber)?

Depends on good the thieves are. Good thieves either have a butterfly nut (locking lug) or will hammer a socket over it to get it off that way.

Bad thieves won't. Maybe get some McGards?