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Well, I've had a look at plenty of reviews etc and ended up starting the kit off with the DeWalt DCF899. Yes it's a heavy bugger but my logic is simple enough; it won't ever be used away from home, will be significantly easier physically than fighting rusted bolts in any situation even if it is heavy, and it seems from reviews that there isn't much it won't break open with no effort. 1600nm of breakaway torque is decent!
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I have a Dewalt 1/2 18v impact gun
Dewalt 18v drill
Dewalt 18v impact driver that has 1/4 and 3/8 drive attachments
Used daily for a couple of years commercially and been excellent...
About £650 for the lot with 3 batteries and one charger iirc..
Dewalt 18v drill
Dewalt 18v impact driver that has 1/4 and 3/8 drive attachments
Used daily for a couple of years commercially and been excellent...
About £650 for the lot with 3 batteries and one charger iirc..
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Bloody Dewalt......Just like crisps Gaz.....you don’t know s**t from clay.......
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Ignoring 'Brand Wars', unless you envisage you're going to have a lot of large & rusted bolts that you need to remove, for DIY use I'd have gone with a more general purpose Impact Driver rather than an Impact Wrench - it's easy enough to get 1/4" & 3/8" drive bits for an impact driver.mjennings23 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:17 pm Well, I've had a look at plenty of reviews etc and ended up starting the kit off with the DeWalt DCF899. Yes it's a heavy bugger but my logic is simple enough; it won't ever be used away from home, will be significantly easier physically than fighting rusted bolts in any situation even if it is heavy, and it seems from reviews that there isn't much it won't break open with no effort. 1600nm of breakaway torque is decent!
That said, it's all down to how you think you're going to use it, I tend to use use my impact driver for screws/coach screws/concrete bolts much more often than I use it for anything on the car - although I do find it very useful using a 1/4" adapter and long plastic sheathed socket when removing/replacing wheels as the middle torque setting on mine puts wheel bolts in to about 100Nm leaving just a little nip-up with my torque wrench to get them perfect
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Time to ramp it up....
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M roady...OEM CSL’s, strut brace, Remus back boxes, ZHP
MR2 MK 2
E89 35i project car...mapped 365bhp, M4 stoppers & wheels, KWV3’s, H&R front ARB, M3 front arms, strut brace Eisenmann cat back race exhaust, VRSF downpipes inbound
E89 35is
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MR2 MK 2
E89 35i project car...mapped 365bhp, M4 stoppers & wheels, KWV3’s, H&R front ARB, M3 front arms, strut brace Eisenmann cat back race exhaust, VRSF downpipes inbound
E89 35is
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No harm having both some day, perfect excuse to the Mrs in fact...PerryGunn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 6:15 pmIgnoring 'Brand Wars', unless you envisage you're going to have a lot of large & rusted bolts that you need to remove, for DIY use I'd have gone with a more general purpose Impact Driver rather than an Impact Wrench - it's easy enough to get 1/4" & 3/8" drive bits for an impact driver.mjennings23 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:17 pm Well, I've had a look at plenty of reviews etc and ended up starting the kit off with the DeWalt DCF899. Yes it's a heavy bugger but my logic is simple enough; it won't ever be used away from home, will be significantly easier physically than fighting rusted bolts in any situation even if it is heavy, and it seems from reviews that there isn't much it won't break open with no effort. 1600nm of breakaway torque is decent!
That said, it's all down to how you think you're going to use it, I tend to use use my impact driver for screws/coach screws/concrete bolts much more often than I use it for anything on the car - although I do find it very useful using a 1/4" adapter and long plastic sheathed socket when removing/replacing wheels as the middle torque setting on mine puts wheel bolts in to about 100Nm leaving just a little nip-up with my torque wrench to get them perfect
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Switched over to the makita range the last 2-3 months from being a dewalt user majority of my life. Never looked back
However all my car mechanical tools are snap on, mostly just for those bonus points ...
However all my car mechanical tools are snap on, mostly just for those bonus points ...
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I did have a look at The 18v Makita 1/2 drive impact gun but the torque levels were woeful.... Perhaps a better one has now come out.
At the time the Dewalt and the Milwaukee was around 1000nm of torque,bit Milwaukee was around £100 more.
At the time the Dewalt and the Milwaukee was around 1000nm of torque,bit Milwaukee was around £100 more.