Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,331 Member For: 19y 5m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 07/10/14 10:09 AM Share Posted 07/10/14 10:09 AM I bought a hoist and still have to use planks to get the car on the hoist! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,327 Member For: 16y 11m 10d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 07/10/14 10:10 AM Share Posted 07/10/14 10:10 AM what sort of suspension do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,331 Member For: 19y 5m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 07/10/14 10:14 AM Share Posted 07/10/14 10:14 AM Pedders XA coil overs. The hoist is an older 4 post so the bed is aprox 80mm high, plus the jacking beams at aprox 80mm again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,327 Member For: 16y 11m 10d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 07/10/14 10:15 AM Share Posted 07/10/14 10:15 AM Ahh, that would be why...People with low cars should just carry around planks of wood in the boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,331 Member For: 19y 5m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 07/10/14 10:18 AM Share Posted 07/10/14 10:18 AM My car isn't "low" it's just a perfect storm of high hoist, low Fpv skirts and 4" cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,327 Member For: 16y 11m 10d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 07/10/14 10:20 AM Share Posted 07/10/14 10:20 AM Worth it to have a hoist, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,331 Member For: 19y 5m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 07/10/14 10:22 AM Share Posted 07/10/14 10:22 AM Yup, I'm not sure how my chiro is going to pay off his boat now though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 13y 3m 18d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 08/10/14 01:09 AM Share Posted 08/10/14 01:09 AM I have ramps too but am too scared to use them, the couple of times I did use them they moved so much I just wasn't confident to drive up on them. That was in a pretty polished garage floor and I'm in a different house now with much grittier concrete. Others thing I'm scared about using them is if I'll drive off the end of will the lip on them be enough to stop me with the amount of forward momentum needed to drive up the ramps.A very good solution for this, which Phill showed me is to use those matts that you put on your dash to hold sh*t there.They are like sticky pads to hold your phone on the dash. I have no idea what they are called.I put the ramps on top of those mats at the maint day and just drove up onto them slowly. My car is not lowered but it helped getting the trolley jack under the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 3m 24d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 08/10/14 12:36 PM Share Posted 08/10/14 12:36 PM I was thinking of that webbing stuff the missus put in the cupboards to stop pans sliding around.Googling "grip mat" finds it: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,327 Member For: 16y 11m 10d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 08/10/14 12:40 PM Share Posted 08/10/14 12:40 PM (edited) Wouldn't want to drop a small screw or bolt into that stuff... Edited 08/10/14 12:40 PM by k31th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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