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Yeah, so I am having my springs put on tomorrow morning, and the shop will put my wheels on while they're at it...since I don't have a torque wrench yet (no cash for a few weeks) should I have them put them on? What if they use an Impact wrench, is that ok?? I heard most tire/wheel places use impact wrenches because they're faster. It won't screw up my wheels/lugs right?

 
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ya ALOT of shops uses impact wrenches to put on wheels... yes it can be badd but usually its fine... i'm sure someone will disagree but hey, 90% of shops use it and i havnt really heard of anyone having problems so.. even if you did, take it back and bitch at them.

 
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I've seen some good shops use an impact wrench just to drive the nuts in, then switch over to a hand torque wrench and torque the nuts down to spec.

 
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what kind or rims? steel? Alloy? Aluminum? If you spent some $$$ on nice rims, get those bad boys torqued properly, in MHO there is not excuse for a decent shop not to have the right tools for the job.

 
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that is one of the things i want for christmas, a torque wrench... i also want a lift, and a garage...

 
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Most shops use a torque converter on the end of the impact wrench so it doesn't hurt anything. Most likely thats what they will do.

 
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CivicLX620 is absolutly right they throw that on the end and it puts the lugs on and torques them instantly... but if they don't use that they should use a hand one, just ask them to torque them if you are worried and they should.

 
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If they know what they're doing they can set the torque with the impact wrench by varying the psi. Otherwise they can weaken and/or snap wheel studs. If they don't, then you will when taking the lug nuts off. Ours need to be tightened to 80 foot pounds. I tighten mine to 70 foot pounds since at 80 foot pounds there is over 12,000 pounds of force holding the wheel on to the hub. That's a lot of force! A screw is a wonderful invention. Thank you Archimedes!

 
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Most shops use attachments based on the lug size that doesn't allow the impact wrentch to put more than like 65 foot pounds per lug for our size.