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Originally Posted by san rensho
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.
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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.
Udo
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