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Good god almighty

So if ever anything should happen which means I don't have my OH to do up / check  the wheelnuts on my car or the caravan I should get the garage out / take it there...

Yeah right. Not always practical, not always even possible, and sorry but in my experience they're not always trustworthy either so that's not for me ! 

Instead  I think I'll follow my husband's advice ... I'll get a decent quality torque wrench - ie not top of the range but not a piece of crap either -  & do it myself.   

 wow what happend to this post it started out with a simple question , the answer is yes you should use a torque wrench . i like a lot of people have been tightening wheel nuts for years without bothering to use a torque wrench this doesn't mean that this is the wrong way but to be sure that nuts are tightened to the manufacturers specifications surely if there is a tool that takes the guess work out of the equation why not use it. as for expensive versus cheap yes there is a compromise at the lower end of the price range but they still can be accurate and usable its worth going on line and looking  at some of the comparison tests

Hear hear phil76. Poor bloke that asked in the first place probably gave up reading this ages ago....

  shame .

Quote: Originally posted by LegsDownKettleOn on 09/6/2011

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The wheel nuts on a car have a correct torque setting, but how many people regularly check the wheel nuts on the car are correctly torqued? Not many and I'll bet no one torques their spark plugs. (The major manufacturers give tightening torques for spark plugs too)

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