We Tested Lidl's Cheap Parkside Impact Gun!

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  @ShiftingMetal2.0 · 11 months ago · pinned

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  @Northumbrian-Today · 7 months ago

  You can&apos;t moan for the money. All said and done it&apos;s a product aimed at the DIY market. It does the job it&apos;s intended for and comes with a warranty. I&apos;ve got LOADS of Parkside products and I&apos;ve always been pleasantly surprised with the quality attained for the price paid.

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  @billburnett3902 · 11 months ago

  It&apos;s about break loose torque which is higher than tightening torque. Dynamic friction v static friction is different.

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  @spanglepoacher-ju9jk · 11 months ago

  They are awesome for driving large coach bolts into fenceposts.

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  @trevorcrook2565 · 11 months ago

  I&apos;ve owned one of these for about a year, it&apos;s been perfect for the odd wheel swap etc. When tightening I always spin them up on the lowest setting, then use a torque wrench. Your review was very fair.

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  @georgebarnes8163 · 11 months ago

  Have been using the same machine &nbsp;for years and found it perfectly &nbsp;fine for my needs, I got the screwdrriver adaptor for &nbsp;use in joinery work, the machine puts in 100MM screws easily. Great value for money machine.

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  @NearlyFullyFree · 6 months ago

  The Parkside brushless Performance tools (the black bodied tools with 5 year warranty) are becoming gradually available in the U.K.<br>Last week the highly sought after rather large and heavy Parkside Performance impact wrench - the PASSP 20-Li C4 which claims to have 1898 Nm loosing torque was in the Northern Ireland UK stores for £69.99 and a £10 off on Lidl Plus app - so only £59.99.<br>That was for the tool and case, plus a 4Ah smart battery and a charger and 3 Cr-Mo sockets and a 1/2-3/4” adapter! <br>I believe the Irish Republic also had similar deal in euros.<br>So hopefully rest of U.K. will get these, 🤞 but need to be at a Lidl store for it opening early mornings to have a chance of getting one.

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  @baseder514 · 9 months ago

  I got this exact impact gun and honestly it has served me quite well. I mostly do some work on my own scooter and car, and it has undone every bolt that had to come off. <br><br>even took off a bolt so tight that I literally bent my breaker bar (it was a cheap one, but still like 2.5 cm of steel), which was only like 25 cm&apos;s long. its good enough for basically anything an amateur home mechanic needs to use it for, which is also what it was intended to do. <br><br>plus, you wouldn&apos;t compare 2 things with a price ratio of 3:1. i&apos;d say its one of the best impact guns out there for the price range and target demographic.

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  @leba4651 · 9 months ago

  I bought one, I think maybe 4 or 5 years ago. Great tool for undoing tight bolts like my Volvos suspension job. Ofcourse if I would have the money I would go for Milwaukee but for odd jobs for an amateur for hobbies the parkside is great.

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  @theonewhoknows73 · 3 months ago

  I&apos;ve used the same one for almost 6 years, with cars, with anchor bolts, and just tightening anything bigger,. never had a single problem with it, it undid small truck wheel bolts , the most imortant thing is to get real sockets for it.. bang for the buck for a hobby guy awesome.

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  @51madmitch · 11 months ago

  This is for DIY people, maybe use it 5 times a year, excellent value. As someone who was in the motor trade, I can say that so many garages and tyre shops massively over tighten wheel nuts!!! You wouldn’t undo by the side of the road with a puncture, many call outs were because of this problem. We had to use a 3ft (1 metre) bar often to break the nuts, this can also cause some alloy wheels to crack round the tapper of the stud hole, to me you should use a torque wrench to tighten the wheel nuts up, as per the car manufacturers setting. Never in 20 years had any problems with mine or regular customers car.

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  @stuartbeard966 · 11 months ago

  I&apos;ve had one of these for a couple of year&apos;s and it&apos;s worth it&apos;s weight in gold to me I always crack nuts with a bar anyway and it just saves so much time!

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