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Anyone here use a cordless impact wrench?

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Welp, I took my wheels off, cleaned them throughoughly with an iron removing wheel cleaner using Wheel Woolies, a boars hair wheel brush and a boars hair lug nut brush.

Not sure what I was expecting, I mean they do look a lot better. But imho for how long it took and how much work it was. I don't really consider it a day well spent lol. Also reading up from detailers who do this for clients. I was seeing about how even if you properly put the wheels back on. They still should be re-torqued again after about 100 miles. I've never heard of this, but I saw it mentioned a few times on multiple forums. That doesn't make it a fact, but I need to Google and read up more. Sounds like maybe this level of wheel cleaning isn't something well suited to offer your clients. I know for my personal vehicle unless I get a wild hair up my ass it's not something I see myself doing again.
 
QueBert said:
They still should be re-torqued again after about 100 miles.
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Whenever I swap my wheels over from summer / winter / back again I leave the torque wrench out to check the lug nuts every day or few. It takes a week or so for me to be able to go all the way around the car and not have at least one spin a little tighter until the wrench clicks.

I doubt any of them are "loose" or would be a problem, but they definitely don't seem to stay as tight as when they were first put on.
 
I have high-end cordless impact (snap-on). I only use it to take the nut off, almost never use it to put the nut on. I have cheap cordless impact that only get to around 20 ft-lbs or so to first put the nut on - the torque down by hand.

I use a torque multiplier (4x) if need to. I've never seen a bolt that need to be torqued down more than 275 ft-lbs or so on my vehicles.
 
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