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Looks like a decent starter kit for someone that doesn't have any tools. This obviously isn't for a mechanic or any serious work. But for around the house it should get the job done. I'd buy it if I didn't already have most of these tools around the house
My experience so far has been the opposite. Made in China is often cheap crap made of inferior materials, but Made in Vietnam has consistently been that, plus shipped with obvious defects, bad casts, and missing parts. Be prepared for globs of extra pot metal inside your sockets, pits and holes from bubbles during casting, structural failure from unblended alloys...
I agree 100% on the case. I bought one of these ultra-cheap Walmart toolsets over 20 years ago. The tools in it still work like new, and I use them all the time. But the tabs that snap the case closed broke off after a few years, and then later the whole case split in half at the joint. I've seen videos on ways to repair it, but I'm not crazy about any of the solutions I've seen.
I guess I could take out the tools and put them in another case, but they wouldn't be as tidy as they are in the original case. For the time being I've just been content to snap everything into it and make do. As others have mentioned, the tools don't even snap in all that well anymore.
For $21.30, I'm tempted to buy this set just to have a working case with a matching toolset. I'd prob pay more than that just for a new case that wouldn't work as well for my existing set.
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Photo of the back shows "Made in Vietnam". Might be better than the average made-in-China stuff. Better than nothing for a car toolkit, anyway.
My experience so far has been the opposite. Made in China is often cheap crap made of inferior materials, but Made in Vietnam has consistently been that, plus shipped with obvious defects, bad casts, and missing parts. Be prepared for globs of extra pot metal inside your sockets, pits and holes from bubbles during casting, structural failure from unblended alloys...
Looks like a decent starter kit for someone that doesn't have any tools. This obviously isn't for a mechanic or any serious work. But for around the house it should get the job done. I'd buy it if I didn't already have most of these tools around the house
I agree, just add ratcheting screwdriver and you are set, but my biggest complaint about these cheap sets is the ultra cheap cases. I had one and I had it for a few weeks and over time the grips loosened and it was a big jumbled mess inside. Everything went everywhere and it couldn't hold tools or bits in place anymore. I think the temperature changes causes plastic to expand and contract, I don't know what kind of plastic this one has but that would be my biggest complain.
I also would not rely on that ratcheting wrench to be able to loosen tight lug nugs, definitely keep a tire iron if you plan to change tire or a small kit for that with a solid bar. The extensions on this kit along worth good $4-$5 so for those and the screwdriver kit, this is good, hopefully nothing rusts.
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I guess I could take out the tools and put them in another case, but they wouldn't be as tidy as they are in the original case. For the time being I've just been content to snap everything into it and make do. As others have mentioned, the tools don't even snap in all that well anymore.
For $21.30, I'm tempted to buy this set just to have a working case with a matching toolset. I'd prob pay more than that just for a new case that wouldn't work as well for my existing set.
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I also would not rely on that ratcheting wrench to be able to loosen tight lug nugs, definitely keep a tire iron if you plan to change tire or a small kit for that with a solid bar. The extensions on this kit along worth good $4-$5 so for those and the screwdriver kit, this is good, hopefully nothing rusts.
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