Can you drive your car to a mechanic? It might be cheaper to have them loosen it with their air powered impact wrench. Other options I've used

1. penetrating oil (as mentioned)

2. breaker bar (long pipe)

3. propane torch (also mentioned)

Once loosened then add some anti-seize compound so that this does not happen again in the future.

On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 03:07, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

Hi (another very off topic),

Wheel bolts on my VW are seized pretty hard. Standing on 24in breaker
bar doesn't help, and that's 300ft-lb torque. So, I'm thinking about
getting an impact wrench. Those with greater than 300ft-lb are very
expensive. I found one with 250ft-lb spec at my price range.

Question is, is there difference between static torque vs impact torque?
In other words, will 250ft-lb impact wrench loosen 300ft-lb bolt?

Browsing YouTube, I learned that torque specs are always misleading and
inflated. This means, I have to find 600ft-lb or greater, and that's
serious money.
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