Garlan Garner
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Yea. I have been on their list a while. That’s why I ended up going with a quickjack. Sure it’s more money, but everyone seems to love their quickjack.
I'm hoping never to need a quickjack for anything.
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Yea. I have been on their list a while. That’s why I ended up going with a quickjack. Sure it’s more money, but everyone seems to love their quickjack.
How does one get the exhaust out of the bag? Suck it out? then store it in the trunk?
Do you really want to trust your life and/or your $50k car to a $150 part though? When it comes to being crushed to death or dropping my expensive car, I'm okay with spending a few hundred for stands. I've got pretty okay low profile stands already, I have had a low profile jack that alone cost me more than $150. Just the thought of hearing the car start to slip and knowing you're about to be smashed to death makes me shudder.
The lift being discussed is $1500ish, I quoted someone saying that was 10x his budget. That is where the $150 number came from.
Far as what it cost to support a car, there are a LOT OF floor jack+2 adjustable height jackstand kits on the market for $40-70 that work just fine but they require the stands to be placed under a different point than the jack. The value of the car isn't what they support, the weight is, and people use these under trucks every day. I have used these under my past 42-4700lbs cars and truck weighing more while changing transmissions, suspension components or ring and pinion gears so real time spent under heavy cars supported on kackstands that came in a $50 kit with Jack. Here folks are mostly looking at tire rotation.
The open pocket of jackpoint is going to be more complicated to produce consistently and require better materials and they have their patent process and initial tooling to pay for so I do not expect them to be as cheap as old school saddle stands. Right now though the only justification for $300 a pair is people are paying it. They should be able to make a profit selling a set of 4 for less than a pair goes for.
But the $50 kit was a jack and 2 stands, the $300 kit is just 2 stands there is a lot of room in between.
I always try to leave ramps under the tires if under a car no matter how hefty the stand. A distant cousin died fighting a stuck bolt under his Mustang mailman found him. Rocked it off the stands, not a stand failure.
Someone once said that lifting a wheel with the suspension is like sticking your finger up your butt and picking yourself off the ground. But, the Citroën could perform that feat over 60 years ago.The suspension can't lift wheels.