Tools to maintain my Chim at home?

[Dougal9887]

A lift comes in handy also 😀.

[wseed]

Thanks for the tips guys, I'll give the ratchet set a miss and go with some S and cranked ones instead. Good to know the sizes too.

[ianwayne]

The 5/8 and 3/4 ratchet spanners would have been a great advantage to me when I was changing the wishbones on my Chimaera last month.

You can only get 3/4" ring and open spanners on the bottom front shock nut and bolts, not accessible enough for a socket. And access to some of the nuts is not good.

[Chimp871]

Amassing tools has been part of the fun of TVR ownership.

Weird spanners for the exhaust manifold, long socket for rocker cover (ground to a taper), tapped out spark plug for TDC, ground down bike spokes to set tappets..... They all live in a special box.

Ratchet spanners are great but good spanners are essential for the most jobs. Draper expert is fine. I've also got some cheap as chips spanners from years ago that I use for the exhaust manifold as they're lower profile and easier to bend

[Belle427]

Ive got an older Halfords large set and its been faultless over the last 10 years. They are very good tools for not much money, not sure who makes them.

[QBee]

Belle427 said:

Ive got an older Halfords large set and its been faultless over the last 10 years. They are very good tools for not much money, not sure who makes them.

I have one of these too, bought as a Christmas present to myself. At the moment it is at a serious discount, and a mechanic friend of mine said it was excellent quality. I have had no tools break in 3 years of use.

http://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/tools/socke...

[N7GTX]

Bought the Halfords professional range around 20 years ago. Sockets, spanners etc and most are still going strong. Managed to break a 13mm spanner and when I went to get another they said it had a lifetime guarantee and swapped it free (no receipt), even after 10 years of use. Not sure if that is still the case.

[QBee]

Yes, still warranted for life.
It’s a great set, as well as the usual sockets and three different ratchet handles, it has all sorts of things in it:
Plug sockets
Deep sockets
Six sided sockets for difficult nuts
Allen key sockets
Star drive / torx sockets
Ratchet ring spanners

It is quite simply the best quality and best value tool kit I have ever bought.

[wseed]

I already have the 170 piece set so I'm ok for metric. I bought the 200 piece set with a mate today hoping to use the 10% discount from the TVRCC but alas the manager said they couldn't do that on the heavily discounted set. :-( did get the 7% quidco though for click and reserve hopefully.