I'v got an 18v Milwaukee and have been abusing it for over 7 years. Just getting nicely run in. It's so easy taking wheels off that sometimes I do it just so as to hose the mud off the underside of the car. So well worth having. I like the Milwaukee 18v batteries too. They seem to have used the same battery fitting for years, so they've very interchangeable. Unlike De Walt who changed their fitting a while ago. However, you can get adaptors so as to fit Milwaukee batteries to other brands of cordless power tools, and they don't 'arf go!
 
We use Milwaukee 1/2’’ and 3/4’’ drive M18 at work and they are excellent, expensive but you never have good tools if you don’t buy good tools. Slowly renewing my own cordless tools with Milwaukee now.
 
I have 3 dewalts , the big 899 which i seldom use and a medium one which i do use a lot , Also a baby one which doubles up as a driver , i put a driver adaptor on for screws and is used the most of them all . How did i live without them , they make life so much easier so its really working out what you will use it for the most . Or go stupid and buy all 3 sizes as i did .
 
For work use, get a quality make
For diy any of the cheapies will do, dewalt are pretty cheap, and seem to have some decent grunt.

Any of the 1/2 ones are real weapons, but simply to big for most car stuff.

3/8 one with a decent selection of sockets/torx/allen keys is a real time saver, 4 prop bolts 30 secs max, by hand you cant do one in 30 seconds.
 
I bought the 899 a few weeks ago, £179 in a TStak without charger, £52 for the 5.0 battery, done what I want it to do so far.
 
I've got a dewalt, not sure which model it is but it's bloody useless. It won't crack my landy wheel nuts and if I use it to do them up, I have to give them a half turn with a wheel brace.

Col
 
rob1miles said:
I think one of these could be more use, yet to buy one but looks like it could get in more places.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-Cordless-3-8-12V-90-65Nm-Right-Ratchet-Angle-Wrench-Tool-2-Battery/283818215879?epid=0&_trkparms=ispr=1&hash=item4214e249c7:g:yecAAOSw17lecKdl&enc=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&checksum=2838182158793a7f24277a574902aaf90cfb04254782
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I'm really tempted to get one of those. Pity DeWalt doesn't do one so I can use the batteries I already have.
 
One of the you tube guys (diagnosedan) who shows how to read fault codes and find the fault uses a 1/4 drive one and often has the bits apart while he's still talking, it seems to say a lot of time.
 
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