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Just don't drive up and over the ramps!
Now that is an intersting place to fix a Honda, I would have never thought of putting a tree under a car...
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With the Rhino Ramps, I would back up a little bit and then "take a run" at them. If you're going fast enough you can get the front tires up and onto the top before the ramps slide forward. But you've got to be fast on the brakes or else you'll drop the car over the backside of the ramps. - Patrick
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This is why I don't use store-bought ramps much at all anymore. I have a set of nice metal ramps, and they slide all over the place, too, when I try to drive up on them. That's scary. Plus, I find that the ramp itself reduces my mobility on a creeper when I'm trying to work under the car.
The idea of "taking a run" at the ramps is really scary.
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Honestly, I use some old bottle jacks to raise the cars I work on and then support them with properly rated jack stands on a solid concrete garage slab.
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They should outlaw the cheap metal drive on ramps that have two support straps along the sides. Know of two cases of them folding up or breaking. Much rather use short lengths of surplus 2X10s and build my own if I used ramps. Just stack and naill like a layer cake. Cheap and strong.
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I have one of the old sets where they are the THICK folded steel with no support strap. Holds the benz up no questions asked |
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