Cordless drill & rattle gun

i personally have a makita 1/2 rattle, got just the skin as i already had other makita tools/batteries, with the 18v 3amp battery it packs a good whollop.
 
undid driveshaft nuts on my st205 rears.
 
heard good things about milwakee, we're about to upgrade to them at work.
 
just buy one as a skin to keep costs down.

I was almost going to buy a ryobi one last week, but every has been recommend snap on. It's rated to something like 800nm butcost around 900 if youbuy from Australia. They say it outlastevey other drill. Some havehad it for over 5 years and the batteries are still ok

They is just workshops, racers I've spoken to and looking around the net.
What sort of things do you use for.

I will happily recommend the Snap-On cordless stuff. I've tried a few different brands and nothing else even comes close.
 
The second-best one I've found was the Chicago Pneumatic cordless, rated higher than the Snap On and it even cost more when it was new (yes more than $900) but in terms of power and battery life it pales in comparison.
 
If you use the Snap-on gun flat out every day it will last about 1.5-2 years. Batteries last a bit longer, maybe 3 years. Usually the first parts to let go are the hammer mechanism in the nose of the gun, and the trigger switch.
If you only used it occasionally at home then it would last for ages!
 
We also have the cordless drill at work and it's very good. I used it to enlarge the holes in my steeering knuckles with a huge drill bit and it didn't break a sweat.
 
I think I said this before on the old forum but i wouldn't even look at anything that costs less than $800 becasue I can pretty much guarantee that it won't be as good. But then you probably don't need something that good for working around the home...

I use  makita and bosch  drill and impact guns for work (roofing) Very happy with the Makita rattle gun skin I picked up on Ebay too. use it a bit with stripping the cars and wheel nuts, dont know the torque but when I tightened wheel nuts with it for the Wakefield 300 then  torque wrench was used  to test them they were spot on.
Ryobi should be good for occasional use I have used them for work before but the are not up to the same standard for full time use.

265Nm is about 50kg on a half meter bar; thats a fair amount of torque but I daresay I've had to pull harder to get some nuts loose. Although the impact will help in some situations.
It depends on what you're going to be happy with. The cheaper one will be enough for 95% of stuff, but you might have to manually crack a bolt every now and then. Is it worth the extra money to avoid doing this?