Any lugnuts covered with plastic? Mine looks really messed up. (pic)

[wedouglas]

Not sure how this happened. Drives fine, but it looks really messed up. Feels like it might be just a plastic cover. Anyone?

Top left corner.

[SebringSilver]

Those are the plastic caps that go over the actual lug nuts. They're messed up because whoever took your wheels off last had a difficult time getting the caps to come off prior to loosening the nuts. They probably tried all sorts of things to get them off, when there's a pin that's stored in the trunk designed specifically to pull off the caps.

Audi techs hate those pins though, and use a set of plastic tongs that have very thin blades with an protruding section at the tips that makes it much easier to pull the caps off.

I should also mention that if you want to replace them with new ones, your dealership sells them for about $2 each. There's a special round one that goes over the wheel lock, as well.

[harrison]

My '08 came with the tongs type plastic tool... that works just fine. In the toolkit in the trunk.

[SteveR]

I have the tongs also, but I think mine were in the glove box. It looks like they just didn't seat the one over the wheel lock properly. Pull it off and slide it on straight.

[rmicroys]

The same machinist that made the jack pucks I was selling also makes Titanium lugbolts. They're kinda spendy, but **** they look really spiffy and you can ditch those plastic covers.

[M3R8]

I keep those plastic caps in a bag at the garage. The nuts are almost invisible deep inside the rim.

[Arantor]

could also be possible that they messed them up when putting them back on.. on my there is one tirelock instead of an "normal" nut, and the caps are in 2 different designs. so they maybe tried to push them because they don't notice and killed it =/