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Re: Garage attendants...
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, geordie wrote:
> My complaint here is the people who installed my tyres. I have no
> problem with the tyres but with the fact that they cranked my lug bolts
> on way way way too tight. I couldn't take them off with the silly lug
> wrench audi supplies with their coupes, and in my opinion, if that won't
> take them off, what good is my spare tyre?
I just wanted to get this in the clear with people that are wrenches for a
living. I was told by a local shop that air wrenches/impact wrenches (you
know, the loud cool ones) can have torque-sensing clutches or something
built into them so that they don't overtorque. Is this true or a load of
BS? At any rate, I don't think they are so accurate, because I was
changing the brake pads and rotors on my fiancee's Neon and I bent the
sh*t out of her crowbar getting them nuts off. I had the full-on
vein-popping sweat-beading light-headed-afterwards thing going on as well.
Sheesh. Torque-sensing my a$$.
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