How do you remove a snaped nut?

when tightning a nut on my car wheel the other day it snapped and left the threads inside, is there any way to remove the threaded end?

Answers:
All the drilling/EZ out solutions would work but first remove the wheel and see how the other end of the stud is attached. You may be able to simply remove it with a hammer and punch.
Use an easy-out, they sell them at hardware/auto part stores. be sure not to drill your pilot hole too big.
with a hammer and chisel try and walk it off anti clockwise
Take the tire back off. Go to a parts store and ask for a new stud for your type of vehicle. Then replace the stud.
drill carefully through the centre with a small drill-bit, repeat using proggressively larger bits til it can be almos picked out.
or tack-weld a `T` bar to it and just unscrew..
one way is to get a reversable drill bit and try drilling out that way if that dosent work get a ez out you can get them at sears. just drill a small hole through it and the threads on the ez out are reverse so when you tighten it it extracts the old bolt threads out.
I always found a socket that barely would not fit on it and hammer it until it does then pop a ratchet in the socket and take it off.

That also works if you ever lose your lug key for locking lugnuts
its a b**ch that one.. happened to me, my mechanic had to add metal to the nut to make it bigger so he could get it off, i'm a girl as u can probably tell, but i mean like soulder? i dunno he melted metal onto it, to make it bigger.. DONT DRILL, it makes it way worse.
If you mean the lug nut stud, they are pressed in. You need a hammer and a center puncnch. Take the drum/rotor off abd pound it out.
My partner is a tool maker he said you can drill a hole through the cente of it and use an "easy out" tool.
Maybe put the nut in a vise and use needle nose pliers or a chisel to either pull, twist or bang the thread out. Because I'm not sure if u r saying the bolt & thread r stuck or just the thread. Either way a vise seems like it might hold the nut tight so u could torque or knock it out.
A wheel nut or a wheel stud? if it is a wheel nut you were tightening then daffyduct has the right idea, you have to take the drum off and knock the broken stud out . Been there, done that with a forklift truck!
The best way is to drill out the sheared bold and then re-tap the thread and put a new bolt in.

I've done this a few times and it is a real pain, a tap and dye set is not too expensive, prob about 10 - 20 quid from Halfords, worth getting if you tinker with your car alot like I do.
yer take it to a local garage and don't be so tight with your money.
It's a difficult one this, and I can see many other people have had this problem too. The solution appears to be drill a reversible screw thread down the middle with a T bar (or ratchet connection) on the end. I think you can buy these tools online somewhere.
Take the car to the garage.

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