Engineering Almanac

Lug nut cover puller

One-piece spring tweezers that pull the Cybertruck lug nut covers out of their wheel pockets, no screwdriver needed.

By Roman Vaisman · CC BY 4.0

Drag to turn, pinch to zoom, double-tap to reset.

What it’s for

The thin 1.8 mm tips slip into the pocket beside a lug nut cover’s head, the hooks catch under it, and you squeeze and pull.

Before this I pried them off with a screwdriver, which marked the covers and the wheels.

It prints flat in about 25 minutes, 12 g of PLA.

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License

It’s under CC BY 4.0: print it, share it and remix it. Credit this page.