u/Dan23DJR

Took about 3-4 weeks of waiting ordering from Haus of tools shipping to UK but it was definitely worth the wait, these spanners are amazing! Really nice finish on them, and man they're comfy in the hand. Really nice chunky and smooth radius beam/handle makes it super comfy to grip and feels like you could wrench with a lot of force without it hurting. They look great, and I haven't got a chance to properly test out the open end teeth, but I put a 15mm nut on a bolt and put the bolt head in the vice to test it out, and wrenching with absolute full force tightening the nut into the bolt, the open end didn't even think about slipping off. Do that with a cheap spanner and it'd fly off. Didn't marr the bolt head off too much either like some of the more aggressive teethed spanners like the Milwaukee maxbite does.

All in all, 10/10 super happy with them, would definitely buy more wright tools in the future.

I was just replacing the big DISA air adjuster flap on my N52, so I got curious and thought I'd open up the old one to see what's inside. But to my surprise...as you can see, there's literally not a motor inside? You can see in the "cap" the cylinder shape where presumably a small motor sits to drive the gears. I swear I'm not making this up, there is nothing there. There's not even any wires running from the circuit board to where the motor should be

Am I going crazy or what? There has to be a motor in there to adjust the flap position. You can see clearly that a motor is meant to sit in there

The weird thing is, my car is running fine. I got an engine light and the fault that logged was for this flap getting stuck/blocked, so I cleared the code and ordered a new part and carried on driving it daily until the part arrived. It wasn't noticeably down on power or running rough at all.

I just can't comprehend how the engine was running fine when as far as I can tell it's literally impossible for the car to be able to operate this flap as required.

It's a Mahle unit, looks real and genuine with all the different serial and part number stampings, but I wonder if it was a fake part or something?

Also is there an aftermarket billet DISA Flap available? These are just a terrible design with the way it wears on the plastic spindle. If there isn't a billet metal aftermarket option, it could potentially be a great gap in the market lol

Literally just got it earlier, haven't used it much but I love it already. The ratchet is one of those with the rotator/twist handle that you can twist either way and it drives the head/anvil. Seems like it'll come in super handy in tight access spots where you don't have much room to swing the handle or can only get 1 click of the ratchet per swing.

The head of the ratchet is more bulky than your average 1/4 ratchet, but that's to be expected when it's housing what I presume are some pretty fancy gearing setups.

Really nice compact little set, it's hard to tell the scale from the pictures but you could carry this in your trouser pocket if you really wanted.

The finish on the sockets and bits is also top notch aswell, even the sprung loaded locking catch on the case. All feels very high quality, not that you'd expect any different from Facom

Picked it up for (IMO) a steal brand new at around £120.

The ratchet is quite short, but I mean you're mostly gonna use this for 8-10mm nuts and studs, H3 hex head machine screws, Torx bits from T20-T-30 range so I can't see the short handle being an issue because for what I'll use it for I won't want much torque and leverage, if anything that'd just make it easier to shear a stud buried in a dash or something lol.

My only complaint is that the long extension bar is a touch fiddly to get out of its holder clips, the camera isn't focused on it but you can see it in the top of the case (the red part when it's open) at the top alongside the various hex bits etc. I presume with some use the clips wont be as tight, but it's almost a bit buried deep into the case and you can't get your finger under it easily to pop it out. Other than that though, I love it

I'm a HGV Tech (CDL/Diesel Tech to Americans) and I can see myself using this loads, gonna be especially handy on jobs like changing a fuel pump on a Volvo D13 engine where you don't have enough radius between the chassis rails/air suspension bag and the engine block to swing even a normal 1/4 ratchet to unscrew the little Torx studs that mount it.