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looking for good quality low profile floor jack and jack stands. already have sourced Jack pads specific for the car.

Anyone have a supplier for these. after some advice re best fit for my car so would prefer to talk with a 'local guy' not buy over the net.

Cheers

Wow snap on tools are usually pretty expensive no? but uh autobarn and repco usually have regular sales on that sort of thing might want to check that out

EDIT: :down: I just noticed what car you have........Drools

i got one from DIYtools.com.au, $300 and came day after payment.. its an alloy, low profile jobby that moves around very easy..

check out waranaimports.com or .com.au for alloy jack stands, $99 for 2.

I got one of these puppies from Bursons for $380ish trade price.

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not ultra low, but does the job, and its a LOT more rugged than my old aluminium jack which shat itself after some heavy use.

i have a snap on one its freaking awesome....

Hows the second mortgage treating you? haha.

I bouight a cheapie one from trade tools, nicely low up front, but at the back, it get's high. It's an Omega, i think up front it's 63mm. Freaken heavy at around 40kgs tho, but pretty sturdy.

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not being ... how do i put it... errr.... one sided or sounding like a total wanker, but my jack is alot better designed than any of the ones above (seriously no offence intended)

i have a hsv gts that was 80mm high at the skirts and i could jack that up easy as pie... i work on alot of drift cars and the like so it was worth me spending the money

yes they may have an approach measuremt around 70mm but only at the absolute tip of the jack.... which in most cases renders the jack pointless if you have a very low car as most jacking points and inbound toward the centre of the car 100-200mm even more at crossmember or diff.....

the version i have was the most expensive but was the only one i saw any point in .... it has a 60ish?? mm aproach height and maintains that height for about 400mm and has a very very light lift height and rate (6 pumps to full height) because of this length

yes i am very biased... but for a very good reason

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not being ... how do i put it... errr.... one sided or sounding like a total wanker, but my jack is alot better designed than any of the ones above (seriously no offence intended)

i have a hsv gts that was 80mm high at the skirts and i could jack that up easy as pie... i work on alot of drift cars and the like so it was worth me spending the money

yes they may have an approach measuremt around 70mm but only at the absolute tip of the jack.... which in most cases renders the jack pointless if you have a very low car as most jacking points and inbound toward the centre of the car 100-200mm even more at crossmember or diff.....

the version i have was the most expensive but was the only one i saw any point in .... it has a 60ish?? mm aproach height and maintains that height for about 400mm and has a very very light lift height and rate (6 pumps to full height) because of this length

yes i am very biased... but for a very good reason

wow, you really are an insensitive, single sided wanker, you really hurt me there. haha. Your jack sounds awesome, could never be able to justify getting one though. What you said is exactly the problem with mine, low at the jacking bit but going towards the pump bit it usually catches skirts/bars, sucks for cars with jacking points on subframes, etc.

Hows the second mortgage treating you? haha.

I bouight a cheapie one from trade tools, nicely low up front, but at the back, it get's high. It's an Omega, i think up front it's 63mm. Freaken heavy at around 40kgs tho, but pretty sturdy.

jack.jpg

haha nice, expensive stuff but it's worth it, from what my dad tells me LOL

All the 'low profile' ones i've ever seen are low at the front but get just as high as others towards the back, so they really aren't that much better anyway. I'm still content with driving the car up on my chunks of wood and going from there. Until I have a spare $800 that is ;-)

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