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[omega3000]

As above, or are they both ok?

Cheers

How about one of these? http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l2736&_nkw=extend+wheel+brace You can get them for bu66er all, certainly cheap enough to buy one for the boot of all your cars. 

I had one of those and bent it trying to undo the wheel nuts , they was tight though   

[Auto Addict]

I always use an impact socket, after having a bad experience with an ordinary socket.

[Andy B]

I always use an impact socket, after having a bad experience with an ordinary socket.

How tight were the wheel nuts/bolts?   

[Andy B]

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I had one of those and bent it trying to undo the wheel nuts , they was tight though   

Years ago when I had a Senator, I was bending the OE wheel brace trying to undo the wheel bolts after ATS had tightened them. The Senator's wheel brace was a solid bar unlike the hollow crappy thing in the boot of an Omega. Needless to say I 'expressed my concern' when I took the car back to ATS for them to sort! 

[omega3000]

Think mine were welded on  Good job i took them all off with a 2ft breaker bar as i would of been stuck trying to replace a wheel at the side of the road beforehand 

[twiglet]

I always use the 17mm impact socket from the Halfords kit, along with a very short (like 2 inch) extension and a 24" breaker bar, on wheel nuts.

Having said that, I have had to resort to a hollow 5ft weigh lifting bar a couple of times in the past.  It fits nicely over my BB, and makes removing head bolts very easy! 

I'm glad I found a use for it, because I was never gonna be breaked to lift any weights with it! 

[omega3000]

I always use the 17mm impact socket from the Halfords kit, along with a very short (like 2 inch) extension and a 24" breaker bar, on wheel nuts.

Having said that, I have had to resort to a hollow 5ft weigh lifting bar a couple of times in the past.  It fits nicely over my BB, and makes removing head bolts very easy! 

I'm glad I found a use for it, because I was never gonna be breaked to lift any weights with it! 

everything has a use eventually .

[Andy B]

....y

I'm glad I found a use for it, because I was never gonna be breaked to lift any weights with it! 

 

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

If you do use an extension bar, pop an axle stand under it so you're keeping a nice 90 degree angle with the breaker bar - else you'll slip and either round a wheelnut, scratch your wheel, or fall on your backside...

 I use a 2ft bar with a swivel head and impact socket, it's just the right depth. I love my tyre garage, there don't use windy guns at all, everything is tightened by hand then nipped properly with a torque wrench, so even the missus can undo them if necessary.

[TheBoy]

So worth investing in a deep 17 then. Shame the current Halfords 150 set doesn't include 1/2 deep sockets 

Really? Its changed then! 

2 types of set - the older ones like my 2, or the newer type like gayboy's.

Immediately obvious to spot the newer type, it has a red container for the screwdriver bits, and an awful lot more screwdriver bits included...  ...at the expense of some of the deep sockets.


For wheels, I use:
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/clarke-square-drive-alloy-wheel-thin-wall-impa

[andyc]

17mm impact socket+ Impact Gun+150PSI compressor to undo and then torque back up by hand

[TheBoy]

17mm impact socket+ Impact Gun+150PSI compressor to undo and then torque back up by hand

Airguns are too tedious.  Battery impact wrenches are the solution

[aaronjb]

17mm impact socket+ Impact Gun+150PSI compressor to undo and then torque back up by hand

Airguns are too tedious.  Battery impact wrenches are the solution

Depends how far away your compressor is I quite like spinning them off with the gun.. but if I'm on the drive I do agree, apart from anything else it takes forever to pull the hose out that far

[andyc]

They are Jamie but i killed the battery on mine and until a new battrey drop into my lap then it will stay in the bottom of the RollCab

Andy

[TheBoy]

They are Jamie but i killed the battery on mine and until a new battrey drop into my lap then it will stay in the bottom of the RollCab

Andy

Ah, yes, always worth having a spare battery