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An OEM car jack and a lug wrench are all you need (and you already have them). Do one wheel at a time. Use your body weight as a calibrated torque wrench (i.e. slowly step on a lug wrench at certain distance fron the lug). Torque wrench is an "overkill" for lug nuts. I have seen so many tire centers just using impact wrenches for all lugs - most of the time succesfully. Once I had to use a huge breaker bar and a blowtorch to undo some of their work (must have been overtightened big time - at least 300 ft-lbs) but the bolts did not break. Another time I drove for a week on a whhel that was just barely tightened (~20 ft-lbs). My point is that there is quite a range there that can be tolerated. It is not the headbolts after all.
All this is unless you are just waiting for an excuse to buy some tools - knock yourself out.
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