TengTools - bad experience

For the hell of it, I bought a 150 lb-ft torque wrench from Tengtool. The feature that intrigued me was the built in angle gauge. The buying experience was good but that was it.

1. Tool came, the adjusting handle was extremely hard to turn. I had to put a 6 inch extension at the socket end to have enough leverage to twist the handle.
2. Turns out the torque angle feature is no better than eyeballing it (which I do just fine)
3. Emailed them, sent it back, they sent out a new one and it does the exact same thing.
4. I demoted it to tire duty and set and forget it at 100 lbs (ya yah I know you have to reset to zero, but...)
5. Used it a total of 5 or 6 times, Four months later it no longer clicks so I overtorqued the wheels.

Good news is it has life time warranty and they will replace it.
Bad news is they have to "order one" and it has taken a whole month of waiting already.

I told them to give me a refund and they said no. So, I politely told them to keep my money and the tool cause who needs a bad torque wrench?

Back to Snapon, Gearwrench, and life goes on. Don't buy this Tengjunk.

 

I got three of those Split Beam types too. I think I am done screwing around.

1st, it's Taiwanese, who do make better tools than mainland Chinese.
2nd, experimentation leads to discovery. In this case, discovery of junk.