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MG TD TF 1500 - Hand Tools Are The BestOption

I have recently had the wheels on and off the TF a number of times. As any owner with a steel wheeled car will know the wheel nuts have a very long thread and it takes ages to wind them up. I thought I would take a short cut and found an adapter for my Dewalt cordless drill / driver that would take a socket and used this set up for initial tightening and unscrewing the nuts. Unfortunately the torque from the Dewalt has seriously injured my wrist. I have used it many times for wood screws and wood has a cushioning effect but steel on steel gives your wrist a real jolt. I don't know what goes on inside a wrist but what ever it is it sure is painful. It will be the wheel brace for me in the future.

Jan T
J Targosz

Get an electric impact wrench.
Gene Gillam

The good thing about hand tools is you can usually stop them right away too.
Christopher Couper

Jan, most cordless drills have a torque adjustment as not to over tighten screws which also takes the sharp twist out, Doesn't your drill have that? PJ
PJ Jennings

An impact wrench is much safer and more effective! And of course always start the nuts back on by hand.
Steve Simmons

You can spin a cross-brace in your hands quite easily, especially with gloves on. Good balance and momentum with no jolt.
M Magilton

You must have had it set on drill mode that locks up the clutch
W A Chasser

Sounds like a torque setting issue to me--
Let me tell you about wheel braces--
My best mate years ago was spinning some truck wheel nuts off with a wheel brace and when one of the nuts came off the wheel brace hit him on the side of his knee--ouch
He died in his sleep that night from a blood clot----------impact driver for me

Be carefull--Safety first
William Revit

This thread was discussed between 19/11/2018 and 20/11/2018

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