Yuglamron wrote:

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Hi Sharon,

One thing I would look at is your ability to change a tyre.Can you manage to undo the wheel nuts without too much problems.

In these days where tyre places wrongly use rattle guns to tighten wheel nuts instead of a torque wrench, and make it damn near impossible to remove them by hand it would be useful to have a tool which makes it possible.

I recently bought a specialist tool from of all places a ship chandlery which makes it very simple to undo tight wheel nuts.

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Safe Travels

Trevor

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I bought an Impact Wrench to do just that.  Cost around $70.00 from Repco.

Cheers,

Sheba.

 

Hello, just would like to add my bit.   Before my last trip I checked to see if I could undo my wheel nuts and as mentioned the rattle gun had done them up so tight, they wouldnt budge.   I had to go to tyre fitter to remove the wheel nuts and then  used copper paste liberally on the threads.    This works as an anti seize and  makes it very easy to undo wheel nuts. 

 

The tyre fitters are not meant to tighten the wheel nuts to the immovable.
They use the impact wrench to a set tension, and then they tighten them off with a manual wheel brace.
I don't know where this applies, but my experiences have been in Broome, Esperance, Cairns and Adelaide.
This was the policy of each tyre fitter.