Car Ramps! - Love - Hate or Need em?

[Huge]

When is a Ramp not a Ramp? - When you can’t get your car on em! 😤

[katana]

What is the timber and the shovel for? and how are they supposed to be helping?

[colr6]

2 hours ago, katana said:

What is the timber and the shovel for? and how are they supposed to be helping?

Probably going to do a John Cleese take off where he beat the car with a branch, he’s going to beat it with the wood and then the shovel for not going up the ramps ....lol

[Huge]

They do nothing w/out a willing volunteer to stand in front of the car whilst I rev it & drive toward them 😳 whilst they hold the shovel against the wood to try & hold the ramps in place!!! 
Ps She’s well insured 

[Daddio]

to dig the concrete floor so there's enough space for the ramps??

[Huge]

1 minute ago, colr6 said:

Probably going to do a John Cleese take off where he beat the car with a branch, he’s going to beat it with the wood and then the shovel for not going up the ramps ....lol

Brilliant scene only bettered by Basil reaching around the wall to turn on the light switch only to fiddle with Polly’s nipple! 😂

[katana]

2 hours ago, Huge said:

They do nothing w/out a willing volunteer to stand in front of the car whilst I rev it & drive toward them 😳 whilst they hold the shovel against the wood to try & hold the ramps in place!!! 
Ps She’s well insured 

Forget the wood, forget the shovel and get two strips of carpet 6' long and about 6" wide. Fold each in half and place the fold through the lowest rung of the ramp and lay on the ground so that the car wheel sits on the carpet and prevents the ramp from slipping away as you drive up. If you have any sort of clutch control, you then just drive up the ramp till the top & its hard to drive off the end! ps. you don't need the carpet if you reverse up the ramps.

[Ray]

personally with a garage floor like that, I would raw bolt them to the floor, using the bolt type not the stud ones, then you can take them up and put them down as many times as you want, and feel perfectly happy in the knowledge your washing ironing and cooking slave will be around for a while longer

[Huge]

WTF do you mean with a garage floor like that? THATS my best garage floor😂

[Huge]

1 hour ago, katana said:

Forget the wood, forget the shovel and get two strips of carpet 6' long and about 6" wide. Fold each in half and place the fold through the lowest rung of the ramp and lay on the ground so that the car wheel sits on the carpet and prevents the ramp from slipping away as you drive up. If you have any sort of clutch control, you then just drive up the ramp till the top & its hard to drive off the end! ps. you don't need the carpet if you reverse up the ramps.

Right! I’m gonna try that & report back 👍

[BROWNY 1968]

id rather use ramps than axle stands, but I jack the car up and put ramps under wheels one facing forward, other facing backwards, that way I know its not rolling off and gonna squish me 😁

[Johnny Boy]

On 07/08/2020 at 18:38, katana said:

Forget the wood, forget the shovel and get two strips of carpet 6' long and about 6" wide. Fold each in half and place the fold through the lowest rung of the ramp and lay on the ground so that the car wheel sits on the carpet and prevents the ramp from slipping away as you drive up. If you have any sort of clutch control, you then just drive up the ramp till the top & its hard to drive off the end! ps. you don't need the carpet if you reverse up the ramps.

That's a very good solution 

[Huge]

Just deciding on the style of carpet & which underlay 😂

[katana]

For you - anything shiney! 

[Huge]

Yabadabadooo! Whoop whoop the shiny things! 😂

[Huge]

The ramps are getting bolted.........🚧

[Huge]

See ‘Project Daisy’ for the successful conclusion - thanks to everyone for commenting 👍

[psmk2]

I bought the jackable ramps.  They are brilliant and gives you plenty of room underneath

[Rally Pack 2000]

2 hours ago, psmk2 said:

I bought the jackable ramps.  They are brilliant and gives you plenty of room underneath

Like these ones?

 

[Huge]

Anybody got these? Great solution.

I saw jackable ramps but they only gave a small increase in height - I didn’t see anything like the video that RP posted tho?

[Xp197777]

They look home made but good

[psmk2]

These are my ones.... when the cars on the ramps and jacked up its gives you a lot of room. I even had to chase my dog because he kept crawling under and lying beside me😅....ive got axle stands holding up the back end

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252585769997.

I paid 139 for the pair.

[Huge]

Looks like the wheel ‘tray’ stops the front wheels from rolling down the ramp & so you can use them together with rear axle stands - don’t think I could do that with mine in fear of the front wheels rolling down the ramp 🤔

[psmk2]

1 hour ago, Huge said:

Looks like the wheel ‘tray’ stops the front wheels from rolling down the ramp & so you can use them together with rear axle stands - don’t think I could do that with mine in fear of the front wheels rolling down the ramp 🤔

Yes it definitely feels safer...the front end is secure and no rolling back at all.....ill pop up a photo of them fully jacked

[psmk2]

Heres mine...fully jacked up gives you 20 inches from the floor to the bottom of the cross member