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I want to start doing more jobs on the Celica - changing brake discs, that kind of thing - and think an impact driver will be pretty life changing when it comes to such things.
Trouble is, funds are very limited so a Milwaukee or Makita is out of the question. Does anyone have any experience of the myriad Chinese specials on Amazon for the £50-80 mark and if so any particular recommendations?
Might be worth checking to see if lidl has the parkside impact wrench in. That and a battery wont break the bank, and i think they still offer the 2 year guarantee.
I have found the cheap stuff from Screwfix, Erbauer and Titan, are pretty good value for money. Never had an impact driver from them though.
Do you actually mean an impact driver or an impact wrench? [which would be much more use on a car]
The Parkside impact wrench is pretty good for the money and I’m pretty sure it comes with a three year warranty. it’s not as powerful as the Milwaukee but it is significantly cheaper.
That's the badger. Present surprise so it was
My next purchase is a Bosch Impact Wrench (bare) as I now have quite a number of power and garden tools using the All4One batteries (Christmas presents when I was refurbishibg my daughter's bedroom)... got most of the tools bare but with a free battery offer (which comes round regular). The impact wrench is less than £100 bare.
I know you just said "that kind of thing" but im not sure how much use an impact gun would help with brakes as the bolts are normally all on the inside so you’d be stuck for space. We have a pile of Dewalt stuff at work which isnt bad and we have a couple of short guns which might work but they aren’t as powerful. I would however like to point out im not a car mechanic but do mechanical maintenance as a job and battery tools are such a bloody time/skinned knuckle savers
My next purchase is a Bosch Impact Wrench (bare) as I now have quite a number of power and garden tools using the All4One batteries (Christmas presents when I was refurbishibg my daughter's bedroom)... got most of the tools bare but with a free battery offer (which comes round regular). The impact wrench is less than £100 bare.
Green or blue Bosch tools? I didn’t think they did a green impact wrench, only impact drivers. Which is why I bought the Parkside.
Prolific car tinkerer here - i have a blue Bosch ugga dugga ‘borrowed’ from work. Its the highest nm 1/2” drive that Bosch do. My opinion is that i very rarely use it, i certainly wouldnt buy one myself, as mentioned you are usually restricted to where you can use it due to access, even though it has lots of torque it still struggles to undo many things, but can snap smaller fasteners as you have no ‘feel’.
I use a Gedore 3/4” sliding tee/t/tommy bar (with an extension tube slipped over for really tight stuff) with a 3/4 to 1/2” adapter far more often than the ugga dugga. I also have a selection of larger 3/4” sockets and some 12point sockets in usual automotive sizes. I prefer the T bar to breaker bars as although the breaker allows an angle allowance I’ve broken a few breaker bars when abusing them with extension tubes (at work), never had a problem abusing T bars.
Ryobi user here - very pleased with it after 6 or 7 years of regular'ish use.
I have an Erbauer Impact Driver (not wrench). As a do-it-all DIY tool, I'm very impressed with it, and with some socket-adapters it's helped with a couple of stuck bolts on the underside of the car too, but it's def not as powerful as a proper impact wrench.
I've got a Ryobi one, not that cheap but certainly not Milwaukee or Makita money.
Its brilliant. I think I paid £60 for it.
impact wrench no real application in servicing brakes. I get the most use from mine replacing suspension components - its the the seized pinch bolts and mounts for the bushes/joints that need it. A decent breaker bar and some 1/4" sockets is probably all you'll need. US Pro are good value also Halfords Advanced if theres an offer going.
impact wrench no real application in servicing brakes. I get the most use from mine replacing suspension components - its the the seized pinch bolts and mounts for the bushes/joints that need it. A decent breaker bar and some 1/4" sockets is probably all you'll need. US Pro are good value also Halfords Advanced if theres an offer going.
Basically that, there's no step in changing disks/rotors that would need an impact wrench.
Their utility is in breaking loose rusted bolts like suspension mounts, exhaust clamps, anything on trailers, towbars etc. Or things that would spin if you tried to turn them with a normal wrench, e.g. an impact wrench will remove the cassette locking on your bike without the need for a chain whip, it can work against the momentum of the cassette itself. On a car the comparable jobs are things like removing pulleys/vibration dampers from shafts (alternator, crank, etc).
Depends what your working on.
Removing the wheel , removing the slider bolts and removing the carrier bolts all done with ease with the impact on the iveco
Less so on the Berlingo you simply can't get in.
The biggest job I used mine for - driver rather than wrench - was dismantling and old wooden playhouse in the garden. It had about 200 screws of various sizes holding it all together and getting them out was becoming an increasingly frustratin annoyance with a normal drill / driver.
I thought, sod this and just but the cheapest Ryobi impact driver from B&Q. It was like witchcraft. All those slightly rusted, slightly buried screws in the wood just came straight out.
I would never use one on the bike or on anything remotely lightweight but for driving screws in and out of wood they are brilliant.
