dennis@home wrote:
"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.

I remember watching a tyre place put two new tyres on my car, refit the nuts
with the air wrench and then "test" the nuts with a torque wrench. I made
them slacken the nuts off and do the job properly.

--
Adam