justinsrx7

I've got two

rj5620

I have one

pissedpuppy

not I

PJorgen

^^^ This!

I'm much more worried about some knuckle-dragger cranking on my lugs like it's a Ford F250 or something. I always have service adviser write directly on the work order " hand torque to 96 ft-lbs"

iii911ooo

I have 2.

cvtbenhogan

3/8 craftsman ditigal. 5 to 150lbs settings.

RED HORSE

Absolutely. There is no question in my mind to always check your lug bolts/nuts using your own torque wrench whenever any maintenance is done, by dealer or independent, who performs work which requires wheels to be removed. Just last month I received my LX 570 back from the Lexus dealer with lug nuts so tight on two wheels that I had to use a 3' extension pipe on a 2' half inch drive breaker bar to remove the nuts.

I bought my first torque wrench in 1957 and now have 5 of different ranges.

eflight

I have 3 , 1 digital, 2 analog

Cuda911

OK, thanks for the input guys. Torque wrench is now officially on my X-mas list.

Doug_B_928

Just FYI, as of MY 2012 the torque for the silver wheel bolts is 118ftlbs. 118ftlbs is also "permitted retroactively" on the silver wheel bolts up to the model year 2011.

I have 4 torque wrenches: 1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 3/4"

Robocop305

I have 1

PJorgen

Did not know that, thanks for the info.

What caused Porsche to do this? Wheels coming off?

mdrums

I have 3 torque wrenches. 2 regular digital ones and a large 4' $500 one for my center locks...444ft lbs is the center lock tq spec.

Iceter

I have four. One digital that I rarely use, one ratcheting half-inch Craftsman with a range that handles most of my torqueing needs and two beam-type wrenches--one for backup and one with a low range (inch-pounds) that I use for tightening wheel bearing nuts.

Anyone who cares about his car should have a torque wrench and make sure that his lug nuts are at the proper torque. In fact, as soon as I log off, I'm heading out to the garage to loosen all of the lug nuts on my wife's GX460 and re-torque them. I just got her new tires yesterday and I'm confident that the monkey who mounted the tires installed the wheels with an air wrench. Judging from the scratches on the wheels, I'm assuming he wasn't very particular about the torque specs.

Yet anothercrisis

I too have a couple that are used frequently.