Reply With QuoteI feel your pain JD - rattle guns are evil.
I find the smaller indepedents are often a lot better service wise and helpful wise and quality wise than the big players.
RoverLord
While in Yass, I developed a slow leak in one of my rear tyres, and got it fixed at the Yass branch of a well known tyre service franchise. When I checked tyres as I was leaving, I found it still (or possibly again) had a slow leak, and got them to pump it up, and told them about it. By last night, it was almost flat, so this morning I decided to take it off and take it to the local CRT to get fixed properly. It took me two hours to get the wheel nuts off, and I twisted off a 1/2" extension bar trying. Eventually got the worst one off using a hammer type impact wrench - the others came off with me jumping on an 18" breaker bar.
There is no excuse for this sort of thing - heaven help me if I had needed to change it on a lonely streetch of road without phone coverage! This is not the first time I have had this problem, although it is the first with that outfit. I wonder how many others are unknowingly driving round with immovably fixed wheels?
John
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SubscriberI feel your pain JD - rattle guns are evil.
I find the smaller indepedents are often a lot better service wise and helpful wise and quality wise than the big players.
It's not broken. It's "Carbon Neutral".
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OldBushie
that sucks and we have had that problem on our car.i dont like using power/air tools that much im old school
The MOD Father
you are right John,,
but they'd rather do it that way than have your wheel fall off. Which is their worst case scenario.
They dont really care about you trying to undo the nuts.
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OldBushie
trust you to say that
TopicToaster
It is a bit "Shonky" though...Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!
But "It's not worth Complaining!"
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John, one of those 12V Impact rattle guns will get just about any nut off, best $80 to $90 you'll ever spend, Regards Frank.
OldBushie
It is a bit "Shonky" though...
RoverLord
It would probably be worth having - but I certainly should never have to use one on a wheel nut. Thanks for telling me they work - I have wondered.
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
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