Thread 28549050

Why aren't ramps like this more commonplace as a cheaper alternative to a lift?
Seems like they'd be perfect for jobs that don't require removing your wheels.

During Soviet times, many gas and service stations had a couple of these on their lot so you could do maintenance on your cars.

>>28549050 (OP)
That looks more awkward and expensive than some jacks.

>>28549050 (OP)
Because you still need a method of lifting your car when you do require the wheels to come off. And if you already have that equipment why bother also getting a pair of big, awkward ramps that'll take up space in your shed or backyard or whatever.

>>28549058
You're crazy if you think lifting your car a few inches with jacks is in any way comparable to several feet with drive on ramps
>>28549061
>if you already have that equipment
Very few people have lifts in their home

>>28549050 (OP)
Well it definitely doesn't cost electricity I'll give you that I guess. Still looks like it would require a grease pit.

>>28549076
Those ramps aren't that high, you can't stand beneath the car or even kneel without hunching substantially. If you're gonna work on your back anyway what is wrong with a jack and 4 jackstands? They take up way less storage space and you aren't losing much height anyway

>>28549082
>you aren't losing much height anyway
I've never been able to kneel under my car with a jack.

>>28549093
What good is kneeling when you're bent over double? How're you going to get anything done staring at the floor? Definitely not high enough to be worth it

>>28549101
I feel like you must never wrench if you don't see how having several feet under your vehicle would be beneficial.

because the average guy can't weld strutrures like that

>>28549105
>several feet
The ramp as shown has maybe 2 feet over jackstands being generous

>>28549112
Lets say 2 feet is right (it's not), you don't see how having 2 feet over the absolute maximum jackstands could provide would be useful?
Again, you don't wrench.

>>28549107
this is the real answer
they'd be too expensive to manufacture and sell and require tools most people don't have access to to make.
also they take up a lot of room
most people that have the money to buy something like this could just buy a budget lift
it's only really something feasible if you can make them yourself

>>28549125
Four jackstands have a total of 16 feet, retard

>>28549159
With a diy ramp, you could have 1000 feet
Checkmate

>>28549050 (OP)
Honestly senpai, I’d just build a working pit before this. At least you can easily cover a pit to walk/drive over it and not have these awkward ramps taking up space. Plus this is at such an odd height AND it needs some more triangles welded in since during the pivot all the weight is supported on that central point
I like the idea of quickjacks over this but they seem expensive for what they are.

>bro just keep stands and jacks around for your shed for the 10% of the time you need it
>bro just spend thousands for a tall garage and a lift

vs.

a fucking hole

>>28549314
A lift is superior to a grease pit in every way, for example when doing work that requires the transmission to be taken out in a standard RWD car.

>>28549317
Are you supposing many people with a car and a residential garage regularly swap out transmissions?

>>28549050 (OP)
because theyre expensive, guys at used car lots try to get 1200 minimum for them, if you see a set for 600 that's not falling apart on cl or fb mp go fucking get that shit.

>>28549336
I was doing it in gravel driveways before I had a garage, so yes.

>>28549093
i would not want to be underneath the vehicle when it is in motion

>>28549314
>>28549305
>dies

>>28549050 (OP)
Looks janky as fuck

>>28549341
So you're saying go grab these?

Far more practical and sensible and safe, but full retard pricing (250 fuckin dollars for 2 rubber fucking blocks)

>>28549467
A stack of 2x4s does the same and is infinitely adjustable
The benefit of ramps is ease of use and height. I would rather save the money and put it towards installing a lift though

>>28549462
I would totally put those in my yard

>>28549462
depends on the condition, for 700 dollars you couldn't build them with raw material.

>>28549475
>A stack of 2x4s does the same and is infinitely adjustable
Your wheels can slip off them if not level or aligned properly.

>>28549475
A lift beeds maibtenance
A ramp doesn't until your grandchildren inherits the ramp

>>28549744
"Based" wheel crib enjoyer, to use the parlance of our times. I still need a ramp to even get the jack under the front jack point of all my BMWs THOUGH

>>28549076
you can get alot more use out of a lift, if you buy the ramps then need to do work that require a lift, then what? you do it the right way the first time, you dont have to cry about tire kickers on facebook and craigslist later when you need to sell the ramps.

>>28549462
>>28549622
>>28549633
quick jacks are 1k at costco... why even bother with ramps that are super bulky and hard to store?

>>28550103
again, it's a height thing. quick jacks will raise your car like what, maybe a foot off the ground? vs the ~3 feet you'd get out of something like pic related. it's the difference of working on your back and having the option of kneeling under your car.
Also at $1000, save up a little more and get a 2nd hand lift which is infinitely superior.

>>28549055
same in Poland
but of course room temperature IQ byzantine slavniggers did what they do best and they kept dropping cars on their heads and dumping old oil on the ground (not my problem) so they were decomissioned

>>28550111
at that point, 2 post lift is end game, why fuck with bulky ramps you got to sell to some shady buyers?

>>28550190
why not both?
I have little car ramps as well as a jack and stands, if I just need to do fluid changes the ramps are easier

>>28549050 (OP)
Looks like something a third worldie would do.
Stop being cheap and just get a proper lift.

>>28550211
>Fastest American production car
>Production
Kek no

>>28550211
lifts cost alot of money and you pretty much have to have a tall ceiling unless you install it outside where it will be weathered.
>>28550103
quick jacks look like faggot shit for midlife crisis sports car buyers.

Plebs.

For maximum access it's easier to pop the wing and roll it on its side. If you're scared of scratches just lay down a bucket of sand, or do it on a beach.

>>28550232
Based and Hulk-pilled

>>28549055
>During Soviet times
>not "In Soviet Russia..."
You had ONE job

>>28550230
and these ramps have you crouching and contorting all the same, whats the point? just get a 2 post.

>>28550211
>Stop being cheap and just get a proper lift.
eventually I will, but lifts aren't cheap or easy, all the other shit mentioned itt is comparatively.

>>28550257
post your 2 post. even buying one 2nd hand it'll probably run you 3-4k installed.

>>28549314
>be me
>bottomless pit supervisor
Anyway I do want one of those but the floor should be made out of trampolines so if you fall in you just bounce back out. Also makes dropping tools or bolts kinda fun

>>28550273
Just build a fucking cover above it with angle iron wtf

I feel more confident that wooden cribbing is more sturdy than spindly metal stilts. As long as the wood cribbing is wide enough that sideways tugging on the car will not cause it to fall sideways, the cribbing would probably even withstand an earthquake.

>>28550300
takes ages to put a car up on wood like that

>>28550257
you must be fat as fuck and have joints like an old faggot

>>28550257
>It's another "Americans are too fat to do things that take no effort from normal people" thread
Kek

>>28549314
Nice hole.

>>28550310
Yeah, I found that out when I had to replace the slave cylinder in my 2014 Mustang. Got the job done, but it was a pain in the ass.

>>28550219
The car is illegal in e*rope, it's production in america. Retard

>>28550255
Yakov Smirmoff hasn't been relevant since 1989

>>28549314
This is a blue board, sir.