The torque extender. An old trick, but still very useful.
Most factory supplied lug wrenches just aren't long enough
to be useful. Hollow steel pipe works better than solid
steel pipe with no hole in the middle.

The four way wrenches, sometimes called star wrenches. Work
nicely for me. I lean my left side against the vehicle. Put
my left foot on the left side of the wrench, push down. Pull
up on the right side, with one or both hands. Seems to
provide some extra torque.

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"Jules" wrote
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I still have a habit of carrying a bit of hollow steel pipe
in my
vehicles that'll slide over the end of the lug wrench -
makes life really
easy if stuck at the side of the road in the cold and wet
with a flat.

I actually bent a 2' long, 5/8" wide wrench in getting the
wheel nuts off
my wife's car (first time I'd pulled them off after she'd
bought it)
because they'd been put on so darn tight :-(