Originally Posted by
wrath
A guy I knew in the UP I met when he was on work release said they used RV scissor jacks and ran them up and down with cordless drills. Way faster than hydraulic and lighter. He said that when they were done they would just push the vehicle over and take the jacks. If the jacks bent bad enough they couldn't fix them then they just got new surplus ones.
If it had wheel locks they had sockets that were modified to be beat on to the locking lugnuts after the collar was broken off. If they were the inverted kind they did the same but the outside would be ground such that it grabbed the same knurls the lock key did.
So they had:
scissor jack
Cordless impact
Cordless drill
ball peen hammer
cold chisel
sockets
locking lugnut defeaters
5 guys. One in a lookout vehicle. The other four were in a minivan. Said usually it took them less than 5 minutes.