I'd like to get one of these lifts one day

[FC]

http://www.americasprideonline.com/Low-Rise-Lifts/Portable-Low-Rise-Lifts-LR-60P--40-1-15-.ViewProduct

Pricey, but it obviously makes swapping wheels, brake jobs, fluid changes, etc, a piece of cake.

Any know of peopel who have one at home?

[Jason C]

Bah! I prefer one of these:

http://www.americasprideonline.com/pictures/products/Manitowoc_Lifts/CFF10000.jpg

:twisted:

[rumatt]

a) If you have a garage that can fit one of those, then you suck. :mad:


b) If you're going to get a lift, isn't it better to get something that allows you to get under the car? That thing looks pretty limiting. What's wrong with jack stands for brake jobs.

[blee]

I'm not a real big fan of those lifts. I'm sure they're built well, but it seems that there isn't a lot of room for crawling around underneath the car. The worst part is that there's a lot of hardware right where I would typically lie/stand/squat. It's great for tires and brakes, though. As for fluids, I think I'd be just as fast with ramps. If/when I get into a place that has room for a lift, I'm going to get one with posts.

[Jason C]

b) If you're going to get a lift, isn't it better to get something that allows you to get under the car? That thing looks pretty limiting. What's wrong with jack stands for brake jobs.

Were you talking about yours? You couldn't have been talking about the one I posted.

http://www.americasprideonline.com/pictures/products/ALM//7001A.jpg

Plenty of room for everything. My head comes up to the wheel centers.

[rumatt]

Sorry, I was referring to the first one MBR posted.

[Jason C]

Sorry, I was referring to the first one MBR posted.

Derr somehow I didn't see the different poster(s). :roll: :lol:

[TD]

Bah! I prefer one of these:

http://www.americasprideonline.com/pictures/products/Manitowoc_Lifts/CFF10000.jpg

:twisted:

Someday...

So, I wonder where the nearest store that sells lottery tickets is.

[Jason C]

Someday...

So, I wonder where the nearest store that sells lottery tickets is.

Of course you'd have to get this first:

http://www.koenigsegg.se/graphics/imagearchive/ccr_yel_3_640.jpg

:thumbup:

[TD]

Someday...

So, I wonder where the nearest store that sells lottery tickets is.

Of course you'd have to get this first:

http://www.koenigsegg.se/graphics/imagearchive/ccr_yel_3_640.jpg

:thumbup:

My lottery winning car actually would be the Konigsegg. Same general idea, though.

[clyde]

Bah! I prefer one of these:

http://www.americasprideonline.com/pictures/products/Manitowoc_Lifts/CFF10000.jpg

:twisted:

Someday...

So, I wonder where the nearest store that sells lottery tickets is.

Two post lifts aren't all that expensive. I think Pinecone's is in the mid $3k range. What keeps them out of a lot of home garages, I think, is the height requirement of about 12 feet. Your garage is actually pretty tall, isn't it?

[TD]

Bah! I prefer one of these:

http://www.americasprideonline.com/pictures/products/Manitowoc_Lifts/CFF10000.jpg

:twisted:

Someday...

So, I wonder where the nearest store that sells lottery tickets is.

Two post lifts aren't all that expensive. I think Pinecone's is in the mid $3k range. What keeps them out of a lot of home garages, I think, is the height requirement of about 12 feet. Your garage is actually pretty tall, isn't it?

Oh yeah, it would fit on height no problem. My greater concern would be width. Oh, and the PITA of carefully parking in between the posts every time I pull into the garage.

[clyde]

Bah! I prefer one of these:



:twisted:

Someday...

So, I wonder where the nearest store that sells lottery tickets is.

Two post lifts aren't all that expensive. I think Pinecone's is in the mid $3k range. What keeps them out of a lot of home garages, I think, is the height requirement of about 12 feet. Your garage is actually pretty tall, isn't it?

Oh yeah, it would fit on height no problem. My greater concern would be width. Oh, and the PITA of carefully parking in between the posts every time I pull into the garage.

Yeah, that's the other part about putting a lift into a garage meant for parking....especially with wives. :speechle: :(

[TD]

Bah! I prefer one of these:



:twisted:

Someday...

So, I wonder where the nearest store that sells lottery tickets is.

Two post lifts aren't all that expensive. I think Pinecone's is in the mid $3k range. What keeps them out of a lot of home garages, I think, is the height requirement of about 12 feet. Your garage is actually pretty tall, isn't it?

Oh yeah, it would fit on height no problem. My greater concern would be width. Oh, and the PITA of carefully parking in between the posts every time I pull into the garage.

Yeah, that's the other part about putting a lift into a garage meant for parking....especially with wives. :speechle: :(

I seriously wouldn't be worried about it with my wife (no offense to yours). But the PITA factor for whomever parks on that side of the garage is huge.

[bren]

. But the PITA factor for whomever parks on that side of the garage is huge.I don't see why it would be so bad. With the asymmetrical lifts there is plenty of room to open your doors unless you just fling them open, and you have a couple feet of wiggle room on either side of the car between the posts.

[FC]

I'd like to have the two-post ones, but my garage is not tall at all. I'd like to add a separte garage with a tall ceiling and a wide door (like this one (http://www.globalhouseplans.com/house_plans_get_11688__.htm)), but my wife disaproves.

Anyway, before adding something like that we have to update the kitchen, bathrooms, blah, blah, blah. So a two-post lift is definitely part of the 15+year plan. :D

[Rob]

I have actually done a lot of research on lifts lately. I think the scissor lifts are great if you go to the track all the time and want to swap tires, but not so good if you want to do anything more. There are 4' scissor lifts that give you some more options, but the lift is still in the way (and you have to back on sometimes to get access to different stuff and so on.

There is a local company that builds four post lifts for about 2k and they are the biggest lift supplier in the country. There were half a dozen vendors at the Barret Jackson auction and I really couldn't find any difference in details that I thought were worth 50% or more on the price. If you get a four post lift, you don't need high ceilings, they are about 8' tall if I remember correctly. You do have to get a tray to support your jack to get the wheels off, but it's a lot easier to position than with a two post lift.

A four post lift is my only choice b/c I can't drill into my garage floor. The house is built on a pretensioned slab. Drilling into it can cause injury and death. I think it has something to do with the earth quake code, but I am not sure.

What's holding me back is lift height. I would spend 2k to get the lift, but I would get like 2' of clearance before I hit the garage door rails and opener. So I would also have to change the door to a "roll into a ball type" or at the very least have the rails run along the ceiling. I was ready to swallow $2k for the coolness factor, but I am ready to start adding onto it with custom garage doors. I have to start saving for the kid's college education, after all.

[JST]

I have actually done a lot of research on lifts lately. I think the scissor lifts are great if you go to the track all the time and want to swap tires, but not so good if you want to do anything more. There are 4' scissor lifts that give you some more options, but the lift is still in the way (and you have to back on sometimes to get access to different stuff and so on.

There is a local company that builds four post lifts for about 2k and they are the biggest lift supplier in the country. There were half a dozen vendors at the Barret Jackson auction and I really couldn't find any difference in details that I thought were worth 50% or more on the price. If you get a four post lift, you don't need high ceilings, they are about 8' tall if I remember correctly. You do have to get a tray to support your jack to get the wheels off, but it's a lot easier to position than with a two post lift.

A four post lift is my only choice b/c I can't drill into my garage floor. The house is built on a pretensioned slab. Drilling into it can cause injury and death. I think it has something to do with the earth quake code, but I am not sure.

What's holding me back is lift height. I would spend 2k to get the lift, but I would get like 2' of clearance before I hit the garage door rails and opener. So I would also have to change the door to a "roll into a ball type" or at the very least have the rails run along the ceiling. I was ready to swallow $2k for the coolness factor, but I am ready to start adding onto it with custom garage doors. I have to start saving for the kid's college education, after all.

Screw that. Let the kid learn how to fix cars. Who needs college?

[FC]

Screw that. Let the kid learn how to fix cars. Who needs college?

Let them pay for their own college. I did. My wife did.

A lot of mechanics make more than college grads and have more fun.

[Rob]

Screw that. Let the kid learn how to fix cars. Who needs college?

:lol: That would make like soooo much simpler.

So this apprehensive panic goes away sometime after the kid is born, right? Right? Please?

[JST]

Screw that. Let the kid learn how to fix cars. Who needs college?

:lol: That would make like soooo much simpler.

So this apprehensive panic goes away sometime after the kid is born, right? Right? Please?

You're asking the wrong guy--no brood yet at mi casa.

[SteveM]

Screw that. Let the kid learn how to fix cars. Who needs college?

:lol: That would make like soooo much simpler.

So this apprehensive panic goes away sometime after the kid is born, right? Right? Please?

It doesn't go away. :smile:

You're correct in that you can't take large chunks out of a post-tensioned slab just willy-nilly. You can however drill mounting holes without fear. A post tensioned slab has steel cables in it that are under tension; your slab will lose strength if those cables are inadvertently cut. When we expanded the upstairs bedrooms of our house, a structural beam and a support post were added to the garage. My contractor was able to cut a section of the post-tensioned garage floor out without damaging the cables. The section was about 3 feet by 3 feet and 2 feet deep (used for a footing for the support post). The hole was criss-crossed by two of the cables; they were about 3/8" thick.

[Jason C]

Screw that. Let the kid learn how to fix cars. Who needs college?

Let them pay for their own college. I did. My wife did.

A lot of mechanics make more than college grads and have more fun.

Damnit, someone's onto my plan... :lol:

[FC]

Screw that. Let the kid learn how to fix cars. Who needs college?

Let them pay for their own college. I did. My wife did.

A lot of mechanics make more than college grads and have more fun.

Damnit, someone's onto my plan... :lol:

That was almost my plan too, since I had to make the hard decision of financing a $100K education by myself if I wanted to go to college. It will eventually pay off. I'm getting there. But that is because I got an engineering degree.

[Jason C]

Screw that. Let the kid learn how to fix cars. Who needs college?

Let them pay for their own college. I did. My wife did.

A lot of mechanics make more than college grads and have more fun.

Damnit, someone's onto my plan... :lol:

That was almost my plan too, since I had to make the hard decision of financing a $100K education by myself if I wanted to go to college. It will eventually pay off. I'm getting there. But that is because I got an engineering degree.

I still occasionally ponder the "what ifs." Someone once said that the average driveability/smog/diagnostic tech of today needs to know more than the average engineer of the '60s. I'm starting to believe that statement. :|

Oh well. Even with lots of Snap-On goodies and the other costs of education (including the aborted time at college), I still figure to come in waayyyyyy under $50k spent, a figure that I may be able to recoup the first year at work. :P

[lip277]

I've heard good things about Eagle Equipment (http://eagleequip.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=LI)

http://eagleequip.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/mechanix_2p.jpg

$1,995.00 with freight included.
:twisted:

[Nick M3]

http://eagleequip.com/page/EE/PROD/LI-ETP/618-001

This one is tempting...

9' clearance required....

Obviously, you won't be doing too much walking under the car, but it still beats the hell out of the alternative...

[SARAFIL]

I've heard good things about Eagle Equipment (http://eagleequip.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=LI)

http://eagleequip.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/mechanix_2p.jpg

$1,995.00 with freight included.
:twisted:

I was offered some of those for free. We're in the process of rebuilding the entire dealership, and as they are taking down the old buildings, they have been offering lifts to anyone that wants them and had the means to transport it out of the dealership. Unfortunately, it was met with such high demand that they had to come up with a lottery system to see who the lucky winners are.

And, as I have no place to put it, nor do I work on my car, I can say for sure that I won't be in that lottery.

[Pinecone]

I have an Eagle MX9A lift. VERY nice. The A model is the assymetric lift so you can open the doors when it is on the lift. Which was very helpful when working on BahnBaum's car.

The local company that installed the lift called them the Hyundai of lifts. Not top of the line, but do the job, have very few problems, and probably the best WRT price/performance.

I have no complaints.

[FC]

I have an Eagle MX9A lift. VERY nice. The A model is the assymetric lift so you can open the doors when it is on the lift. Which was very helpful when working on BahnBaum's car.

The local company that installed the lift called them the Hyundai of lifts. Not top of the line, but do the job, have very few problems, and probably the best WRT price/performance.

I have no complaints.

As long as the car doesn't fall on me, I good.

[BahnBaum]

I have no complaints.

Neither do I. :D

Alex