Laser Tools has introduced a new wrench set designed to speed up wheel fitting and avoid wheel nut cross threading.

The wheel nut locating wrench set part (No. 7037) is used before the standard wheel nut socket and torque wrench to squarely locate the nut or wheel bolt and spin it up hand-tight. This avoids the problem of balancing the wheel on the hub or on the studs, with the road wheel wobbling  about making it difficult to get the wheel bolt or nut to start threading squarely without cross threading or disappearing into a deep recess.

The set includes four locating wrenches, three commonly used standard hex profiles, 17, 19 and 21mm and the fourth locating wrench is the special Mercedes-Benz 17mm profile. There is a magnet in the centre to hold wheel nuts and bolts steady in deep wheel recesses and they are fitted with a nylon protective sleeve to avoid paint damage on alloy wheels.