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A pair of wire snips will cut tire stems right off, and quickly.
A can of expanding foam up the tailpipe into the muffler, and/or emptied into an engine compartment will ruin anyone’s day.
5 lug nuts can be loosened in about 5 seconds with a heavy duty impact wrench. If you’ve ever seen tires get stolen it only takes about 15 seconds to pull off.
That will be enough to disable the car. It’ll get moving before they notice it.
Make sure the battery is at full charge. Chevy typically uses 12mm or 14mm lug nuts in their trucks.
Used motor oil and sand in a water balloon also completely obstructs the view through any window and can’t be cleaned off.
This will also ruin someone’s day
How does it go when you remove them from a fully pressurized tire? I have only ever removed cores when the tire was empty or had a low amount of pressure.
Don’t fully unscrew it and you should be fine. Removing it completely makes a lot of noise, especially with higher pressure truck, uhaul and suv tires.
Loosen somewhat, it’ll whizz out and they might be on the move before it runs flat. Then the tire is ruined.
How quickly can these remove the valve? could you cut off the stem with wirecutters faster?
10 seconds or less. Leaves no damage or trace. I carry one in my glovebox.
If it’s for ICE, cut it, fuck em.
Clippers make a loud CLICK when used, wrench is mostly silent, just the sound of slowly escaping air.
You can loosen it enough without taking the whole valve and air will disappear in roughly 10 minutes. Hopefully while they’re on the hwy driving away lol
If they’re close enough to hear those clippers clip, you’re doing it wrong and dangerously.
You can just kick them if they’re rubber, sometimes it’sjusta little tear that wont even really make noise.
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I’m OOTL Please fill me in?
If the ICE vehicles don’t have wheels, they can’t move very fast…
ICE as in Internal Combustion Engine, or as in the US neo-brownshirts?
Specifically the SS rounding up everyone who doesn’t look like them.
Last I checked, EVs also have tires, so probably not the former. :P
This is big if true.
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Your problem is you are probably using an impact driver numbers vs impact wrench. Even compact battery impact wrenches can get over 300 ft-lbs of breakaway torque. The beefiest consumer cordless can get over 1000. That’ll rip those lug nuts right off.
You can get 11000 ftlbs in a battery handheld. https://www.radtorque.com/products/b-rad-x/
Ha, I haven’t seen these, the Torque Test Channel needs one!
Looks like a standard drill/driver with a torque multiplier bolted to it. I wonder what that does to the impact force?
The harder the hit the better generally, but cordless sometimes substitutes speed of hits, these multipliers would slow that way down.
They have a huge lineup of tools, some corded, some air, and then the battery lineup. Probably something for everyone.
I think at those torque levels the hit of impact doesn’t matter, because its not doing an impact to try to torque a resistive nut, there will be a bracket that touches the workpiece to resist the 11000 counter torque.
Battery powered impact driver plus a deep socket set = you can remove lug nuts or bolts (securing a wheel to a vehicle) in very quick fashion.
Here’s a compact socket set that will handle most every consumer vehicle too: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EHK86WS.
Almost the same one at HF where you can pay cash: https://www.harborfreight.com/12-in-drive-impact-flip-socket-set-3-piece-62491.html
Don’t forget you can also ugga dugga them with an impact gun and cause the bolts to snap, so even if they get new lug nuts they aren’t going anywhere unless it’s up a flatbed
Also don’t forget your locking nut key for those pesky lock nuts
Also don’t forget your locking nut key for those pesky lock nuts
Leaving only those will make for a bigger surprise a few minutes later when they take a corner at speed. Or hit a bump.
If only one is locking just break the others. Locking will break in short order.
Just be careful because the pictured drill will break your wrist if you let it.
Know your tool before you use it.
Slashing tires is faster and quieter.
Why use it on the vehicle and not the ICE agents? Rip their sacks right off with 2500 lbs of torque.
Or, a small pair of pliers can open a brake bleed valve.
Fucking with the brakes risks getting bystanders involved, though.
Messing with the wheels can too if your plan isn’t leaving it sitting on cinder blocks. A runaway tire can do some damage at speed. Or if heaven forbid the vehicle rolls. Definitely wouldn’t want that to happen.
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