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dgjks6

Autozone. Cheap and guaranteed for life. But the brand does not matter as much as the accuracy. So get one of these:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Powerbui...0962/203117027

That way you know you are calibrated

bhvrdr

Yup home depot husky. I have all three. Lifetime guarantee and all you do is walk in and walk out with the replacement. Kobalt from lowes are only guaranteed for 5 years but the rest of their hand tools are lifetime. Thet have some cool zero clearance pass through wrenches that are nice to have for swaybar links and the like

mike

ColoradoMark

sober_owl

1st u need to ask why u need it? if its for tires make sure u get one that has the range u need... like 20ftlbs to 120ftlbs for small engine bolts the smaller ones are more accurate than a bigger one set to its lower setting.. for tires just get a 30 dollar craftsman..

Bruce In Philly

+1
I am just a hack, but I tried the cheapo brand, a Brownlin electonic one, and now settled on two Craftsman (non electronic) that I really like (one for higher torque, like suspension and wheel lugs, and the smaller for drain plugs etc.).

The cheapo worried me, the Brownline was awful.... the batteries kept dying, the torque values would time out and constantly had to reset it.... just crap, and I would blow by the beeps all the time. You will need to consider 3/8" and 1/2" and then your socket sizes, and then adapters. Remember to "zero" them after every use. For lugs, get a good impact socket set because if you continue to wrench, you will end up buying an impact gun... a slippery slope item.

Peace
Bruce in Philly

Petza914

I have 3 of the Snap-On Digital Micro Wrenches. Set the torque you want on the screen and wait for the beep and slight vibration to know you've hit it. The newest one, which is an 1/8" has an LED array on the side so even if you're in a position where you can't see the screen, you can see the lights work their way up from green to yellow to red and know you're closing in on the value before the beep and vibration. The other advantage to this series of wrenches is that some Porsche fasteners, like those on the engines require a force value, then X degrees of addition rotation be applied for proper tightening. These have that setting and capability as well. The SnapOn wrenches also come with a calibration sheet to show you when they were calibrated and by whom at the factory.

Also, if you need a torque wrench for wheel bolts, getting one that only goes to 120 ft.lbs. isn't enough range. The current torque spec for wheel bolts is 118 ft. lbs. and a wrench that only goes 2 ft.lbs. above the needed value is too close to the end of range limit to be accurate at that value - you'd need one that goes to 150, 180, or 200 ft.lbs. to have good accuracy at 118 ft.lbs.

nougat

Porsche raised the wheel bolt torque spec from 96 lbs to 118 lbs in 2012 (22 lb increase!). I'm guessing anything in that range is perfectly fine and your wheels won't fly off. I shoot for about 115 so I have +/- 3 lbs of in case my torque wrench is off. I bought a $40 torque wrench from Amazon and it came with a handwritten test report that showed accuracy was within tolerances.

linderpat

OK, a little OT, but why did Porsche raise that torques spec on wheel bolts? I've been using 98 ft lbs.

nwGTS

torque was raised only for certain applications.. black wheel bolts are 118.. there's official Porsche language l posted in a thread a couple months ago. can't remember off top of my head.

Hi-Arc

GSXR750

thanks for all the info, much appreciated

mike

Ben Z

Counterpoint: Click-type torque wrenches are very convenient because you don't need to position it so you can read off a scale, but even the best of them goes out of calibration. If I were a pro I would definitely go with those and make sure they were calibrated on a regular basis. But for someone like myself who uses one occasionally, my Craftsman beam-type wrench I bought in the late 1960s has remained perfectly calibrated to this day. It is the only one I own or probably will ever own. I'm used to having to look at the scale, it doesn't bother me.

too tall

I have that split beam. That does the job.

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