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Old 01-20-2013, 10:23 AM   #10
BoxsterSteve
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Originally Posted by san rensho View Post
The tools in the kit will likely be inadequate to remove the wheel bolts if they have been overtightened, which they invariably are when a shop with impact tools works on your car.

Whenever I have tires removed at a shop, I always check the bolts, they are usually way over spec. They were so tight once I couldn't break them with a three foot breaker bar and had to take it back to the shop to have them loosen them with the impact wrench and then re-tighten with my torque wrench, and the mechanic still gave me the stink eye.
The nerve of you... asking the tire jockey to actually use a torque wrench. I do not believe (m)any are trained to use such a complicated device. What were you thinking?

Just kidding... I once got the stink-eye too for asking exactly the same thing. Funny how they all seem to use an air impact like it was an Uzi.

Too much MW3.
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