Your next tool purchase?

[Bren]

For me a snap on roll cab (battered and secondhand of course) so that I can put my top box on it - it is taking up most of my work bench at the mo.

 

I am still saving for a decent sized compressor, I could also do with something that provides heat with a flame (portapack would be nice but out of my league) probably end up with a taymar blow lamp.

[twosmoke300]

4 wheel alignment equipment

[Bobthebeard]

A Tardis. So I can go back to 1984 when everything was better.

[dave21478]

Just ordered a fine-pitch helicoil kit to fix a stripped thread on my bicycle. 

 

I will see how the money situation goes this summer, but I really, really want to buy a two-post lift. I have seen them locally second hand for about 900 euros. but I hear of a place up north selling reconditioned ones with a guarantee for not much more. Ebay uk has new ones at about £1200, but I would need to go and get it. Thats a vast amount of money to me though, so needs careful thought.

[Asimo]

Is there such a thing as an electric (cordless) bottle jack?

[cort16]

A bigger hammer

[fordperv]

A smaller socket

[Minimad5]

Possibly diagnostic equipment (Saves me annoying the guy next door)
Engine crane followed by some decent spanners and a set of ball joint splitters

[Ronnie L]

Regarding secondhand two-post lifts, you've gotta be careful as the professional ones are usually 3-phase. We tried running one through a rotary-converter once upon a time. It worked after a fashion but it was incredibly slow and every time we lifted a car it dimmed the house lights and killed the picture on the telly. Not the best thing for domestic harmony.

I would buy one of the 240v models designed for car enthusiasts doing stuff at home, but problem is finding a garage high enough to take the car on full lift.

[garbaldy]

I fancy one of these as it would save a 15 mile trip to use our lift.

 

they are supposed to be able to turn a 4x4 on with little effort as in the states I've seen pics of pick ups on them.

 

[forddeliveryboy]

The really sweet ones are those which attach at the bumper mountings and you can swivel the car like a chicken on a spit.

 

Cheaper ones like these

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHASSIS-TILTER-CAR-BODY-ROLLER-AUTOVIP-RAMP-JACK-/121401933232?pt=UK_Lifting_Moving_Equipment&hash=item1c441e7db0

 

 look expensive compared with http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/car-roller-chassis-tilter-car-jig-car-rotisserie-car-lift-ramp-CJAUTOS-CT06A-/231155364490?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item35d1eef28a 

 

- but the cheaper type are quick and easy to make yourself.

[garbaldy]

The starlet at the back of my garage is on a homemade spit but I wouldn't trust a complete car on one

 

the one I posted bolts to the hubs on one side and apparently all you have to do is remove battery and over she goes, sounds ideal for getting easy access to the underside.

[TRW]

Can't wait to get my hands on my newly bought brake pipe spanners (made of chocolate) from Machine Mart. Just the thing to mangle the bleed nipples on my Rover.

 

Great stuff!

[sheffcortinacentre]

just bought a vacuum brake bleeder, awaiting its arrival.

[dave21478]

Regarding secondhand two-post lifts, you've gotta be careful as the professional ones are usually 3-phase. We tried running one through a rotary-converter once upon a time. It worked after a fashion but it was incredibly slow and every time we lifted a car it dimmed the house lights and killed the picture on the telly. Not the best thing for domestic harmony.

I would buy one of the 240v models designed for car enthusiasts doing stuff at home, but problem is finding a garage high enough to take the car on full lift.

 

I have 3-phase power at the farm and have a high enough barn, so no worries.

[beko1987]

Whatever I need next for the ZX or Meriva. My last purchase was 2 taps for the hub holes on the ZX, not even used that yet!

[spike60]

just bought a vacuum brake bleeder, awaiting its arrival.

I've used vacuum bleeders with limited success, I found pressure ones better. The vac ones seemed to pull air in anywhere they could, like the nipple threads.

My next tool will probably be a strobe timing light, I seem to have a car that doesn't have a diagnostic port!

[sheffcortinacentre]

hmm was in two minds which to get ,had probs with eazi bleed & didn't want the type that needed a compresser/airline as it limited its use.

purchase is prompted by a transit that didn't want to bleed (2 man method ) & couldn't find the eazi bleed.

see how it goes.

[CreepingJesus]

Probably a bearing puller: I hear noisy grumbles on the V70, and the washing machine's not far behind. The car will probably require heat, violence and swearing, but I'm not fearing it as much as stripping a washing machine!

[garbaldy]

Four years ago when I replaced ours I vowed never to do a washing machine bearing ever again what a ballache.

If anyone wants a free washing machine that has a slight bearing rumble come and get it as I've bought a new one, I refuse to it again.

[bub2006]

I am easily pleased. Just want a cheap drawer tool box and really need to get a soldering iron and a grinder.

[derskine]

Plasma cutter, reckon it'll come in handy and already have a compressor to supply the air.

[Pillock]

I'm trying to decide whether a Pela oil extractor is worth it. Quite a few internet forum experts rate them, but I've still got that nagging doubt of do they get it all out, will there be a massive thick load of goop in the sump after years of using an extractor?

[dave21478]

Even if it doesnt get it all out, the amount left behind will be pretty small and will be diluted away to nothing when you put the new oil in. I wouldnt even worry about it.

[Pillock]

I decided not to worry about it, and bought one. £47 from Machine Mart. Actually, perhaps it does leave a dribble in the sump, but as you can also suck out the oil filter housing on a VAG PD which holds about 250ml, it doesn't matter. If you take the sump plug out that housing never gets emptied. It also means I can change oil more frequently so probaby better in the long run.

 

It took about 20 minutes to empty, I think I probably warmed the oil to much but no harm done, I panicked about melting the covering on the hose (it's identical to the outer sheath on a bicycle brake cable, wire coil wrapped in plastic) but all good. Whilst sucking, did the filters, wondered what century the pollen filter was last changed, one last pump and a jiggle to get the last out, refill.

 

The 2.0TDi takes 3.8 litres, I've just refilled with somewhere between 3.5 and 4 so that sounds good enough for me.

[robinmasters]

It might have to be a hydraulic sphere removal tool.

[gordonbennet]

Tried to find me torx sockets the other day, buggered if i know what i've done with em, so just had a Sealey AK6197 set of torx, male and female plus security torx sockets turned up today, nice set.

 

Half my trouble is i'm such an untidy bloody wretch and me garage looks like the aftermath of grenade attack, if i ever get round to clearing it out its sure to reveal a treasure trove of kit.

[Luckythirteen]

Fault code reader for me too. Just a simple wee box that shows me the codes, so I can go and look them up on the net.