Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
Subject:Re: Shocks
From:Mike Miller
Date:Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:37:21 -0800

I split one in half and rounded out another.  Only good thing about the VW
wrench is it's so bad it can't round your wheel nuts/bolt heads.

Mike

On 12/4/03 2:51 PM, "David Brodbeck" <gull@GULL.US> wrote:

> George Goff wrote:
>> In a message dated 12/4/03 1:04:51 PM, kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET writes:
>>
>> Look at that simple piece of swaged tubing that VW
>> calls a lug wrench.  It looks like a piece of shit, but even it works
>> surprisingly well.
>
> It does?  When I tried to use it it walked itself off the nut every time
> I tried to put any torque on it.  This was even on lightly torqued bolts
> like the spare tire holder.  To actually get my wheel lugs off I had to
> go to Pep Boys and buy a 4-way.
>
>