Lidl impact

Was tempted to grab one today, but I too like to hear what others have to say about it, and if it's good it will probably be sold out next time I am in Lidl :(

Does what it says, have similar a couple of years, only used by myself and no issues.

How would buying a DeWalt save you money? The Lidl ones come with a 4 year warranty

It really depends on what you want it for.

I have a Chinesium one, not from Lidl but possibly from the same factory, and it's grand for car wheels and taking the blade off the lawnmower.

think he meant save towards a dewalt?

If you're just taking wheels off, a lidl one will probably be ok. If you intend doing real work on a car, ie suspension work, crankshaft bolts, brakes caliper holders etc, a Dewalt will do it all without struggling at all. I have one, and do all of the above work with it.

It comes with a battery and a charger

To be fair, I’d be using a breaker bar to crack the nuts half a turn first. Battery usage will be a lot longer. Same as id use a breaker bar to check them afterwards regardless of whether id used an air gun or good quality battery gun.

yep I have a 3/8 battery gun, used mainly as a time saver for spinning off nuts but will tighten wheel nuts to within a quarter of a turn of ‘tight enough’.

I got it, but I haven't used it yet. I will be used at home only, so no heavy use

It's so handy to use one for car wheels but do use a torque wrench when finished, if not you may hear a wheel rattle when driving.

Fair enough about having to manually loosen the nuts but you can't just tighten wheels with an impact gun and not hand tighten them afterwards. A tyre shop wouldn't even do that. An impact gun still saves a lot of time even if you have to crack the bolts manually

Because when I bought it I thought 400nm would be plenty of power to undo wheel nuts. Turns out it isn't. The other one mentioned in the OP wasn't available then.

I also have the DeWalt. Doesn't get a lot of use but for car suspension components its really handy.

I have the DeWalt as I was already bought into their batteries so just got the bare tool very cheaply by watching out for it on Amazon resale.

For anyone with no battery allegiance this current Lidl one seems a very good option. Particularly as for the average DIYer it isn't going to get massive use.

I've found the 400nm one fine for car wheels but I'm using proper impact grade sockets instead of the ones provided with the tool, which just seem like painted chrome sockets. I'd estimate it'll loosen somewhere around 250-300nm. The 200nm setting will tighten to around 120 or so but I'll just finish the wheels with a torque wrench. Very handy to keep in the boot.

Haven't really pushed the black one yet but there's a suspension job in the near future.