"Spamlet" wrote in message
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I always used to keep a metre odd of steel pipe in the boot to fit over my
socket set wrench, for just that reason. I often had to stand on it -
pushing downward so as not to lift the car off the ground - in changing
wheels that had been last put on by the tyre changing lads.


The tyre place I use always uses a torque wrench and they adjust it to match
the car.
On a car I borrowed once I had to put the jack under the wheel wrench to
undo a nut, saves having to carry a long bar.