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Shouldn't be to expensive to fabricate something like that yourself with an old rim, a metal lathe, a wheel-balancer and some welding.

Seen one of those before. If you have no other way of recovering your vehicle, then go for it - but honestly, that's a lot of work to get it on and off your vehicle. I just couldn't be bothered with the hassle.

And I'd be worried about the extra stress on the wheel studs - which *can* snap under normal load, imagine what they can do with that thing attached!

If you're in a situation where you can't get out, get your mates to pull you out. Unless you're in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, you should always have a mate with a truck with you for recovery purposes!

Or front and rear winches. *AND* a mate with a truck!

Even a Female can carry it and put them on the vehicles themselves, very PC there

I'm getting a pair for the saab's for x-mas. I think it's an amazing idea for cars that you can't or won't put a winch on.

A winch for me...and a Katana for the zombies

donkeychomp wrote:Katana for the zombies

Modified nailgun...

they use special wheelstuds, so it just pops on and off. I would be worried by the huge strain on your wheel bearings more than anything

I would rather buy a winch than waste my time with that

Special wheel studs, or special wheel nuts?

If it needs the wheel studs pressing out and new ones pressing in, that's a lot of messing about. And are they stronger than standard wheel studs?

If it's just new wheel nuts, then the issue of snapping wheel studs that I brought up earlier still stands - will the studs hold up under the added stress?

And yes, it'll put a lot of stress on your wheel bearings too!

Might be ok for occasional light use for recovering a road car stuck in the snow or something. A hand-crank winch might be better though.