Fairly easy answers here.
I don't just sell these, I designed them and use them every day [...]
Thanks for responding, but, I have to say that the rest of your reply appeared to grow increasingly defensive. I’m not disparaging you or your product. Indeed, by all accounts here & elsewhere, you’ve designed a terrific jack pad to fulfill a need unaddressed by Tesla. Good for you, and I wish you nothing but success. As a new Tesla owner, I also say “thank you!” for making an improvement to the overall ownership experience.
However, that leaves my questions unanswered. I didn’t ask for an “idiot proof” tool—I’ve managed to bash my proverbial thumb with my proverbial hammer over the years, but I don’t blame the hammer for it!
I’m asking about an emergency kit to carry in the car. I believe you’ve stated that your pads are not suitable for scissors-style jacks or bottle jacks, correct? So,
is there any emergency jack type suitable for use with your pads (and by “emergency,” I mean small/light enough to carry in the car)? Put another way, is there a “portable” style floor jack out there, small/light enough to ride around in the frunk hopefully never to be used...?
If the answer to that is “no,” that’s no reflection on your product—it just means it’s not the appropriate tool for this particular scenario.
If the answer is “yes,” let me hear it! You’ll likely gain a customer—if for no other reason than size/stability, I like the idea of your pads over the “hockey puck” design. I’m trying to get to “yes” here, there’s no reason for you to get upset with questions about applicability to my need.
So, I ask again:
- Which is better, and why? You clearly have a vested opinion (likely justified) on the Murphy’s Law pads; and I’m clearly interested despite the 3x - 5x cost factor over the hockey puck style. I’ve already said why
I, a Tesla noob, like them (size/apparent stability). I’d like to know the full pro/con list of each, and its a reasonable question for a prospective customer to ask.
- What style jack should I use for my emergency roadside scenario; and, is that jack compatible with the Murphy’s Law pads? Also a reasonable question.
- Given my need (emergency kit to ride in the car full time, hopefully never to be seen again), is
either the Murphy’s Law pad OR a “hockey puck” (or perhaps some third style I haven’t seen??) suitable for BOTH the roadside jack in the previous question AND for an unplanned visit to a non-Tesla shop’s lift? An eminently reasonable question when the goal is to build an emergency kit while observing space/weight constraints....
Again, NONE of this is disparaging to your product. Even if the answer to all of the above is “no,” it may well be—scratch that, it likely
will be a case of no ML pads in my emergency kit, but either one or a set of four in my garage. (That’s a question for another day, after I’ve got my emergency kit built.). If I told you I had a nail to drive and was thinking about using your pad to do the job, you’d (hopefully) steer me toward a hammer. That’s no reflection on your product, it’s just not the right tool for that specific job. In the
specific context of my emergency roadside scenario (with only an emergency roadside jack available): is yours the right tool?
