Just trying to think outside the square. On your photo from inside the garage,what plot of ground is the black car parked?
Do you mean how big is the space? I think the garage is big enough for a car-lift from a sqm point of view, but height is the problem. I reckon what I’ll do is store the 355 for a month or two while I explore all options re a lift. I’d need to get the new Golf under the 355, which with a little space between the two means a height of around 2.9m, which is re 150mm more than I’ve got at the moment.
My next door neighbour has just bought one of these. It’s a four post hoist designed for longer term storage, however can certainly be used as a hoist. Around $ 4,500 delivered and installed. https://tufflift.com.au/product/tl3-6ph-s/
That's a very good price. I bought a 4 poster about 8 years ago for $3,000, and assembled it myself - big job with no helpers and no lifting gear.
No,on your bottom pic on page 2 of post #15 on this thread you have the Beema and 355 in the garage and a black car parked outside on the right,what is that ground? yours or someone else's? Geeez it's hard to explain to someone who can only drive an automatic car.....
Ah. I see what you mean. The space directly behind the garage (not quite where the black car is in the pic due to angle) is, technically, “ours” but we don’t own the land. It’s a lane-way, and as often as not if we don’t park something there someone else parks their HOS in “our” spot. Erecting a semi-permanent structure there would be akin to doing it out the front of a normal house, on the road.
Steve, be careful when buying a hoist, particularly anything that seems cheap. A lot of them are made in China and have issues such as the platforms the car sits on not being made from a single length of steel, but rather 2 pieces welded together. Also the lifting cables can fail and the car on top will drop up to half a metre before the safety mechanism stops it. If you pay more for good quality like a Molnar, it's easy to sell it again later for most of what you paid, because every mechanic trusts them.
Yeah, for sure. I’m very aware that the whole lift idea is pretty “iffy” in our current house. It seems that the height of the garage is really on the edge of what could work. As I said, I think what I’ll do is store the 355 down the road for a couple of months while I explore options, and if nothing is properly feasible I’ll just have to keep it there and pay what it costs. Or the new car will have to stay outside.
What Ian is saying is right on the money in various respects. You can,however,find excellent buying in the second hand market,particularly in higher quality hoist's...Molnar...as I had previously is,as Ian says ,the gun.. Don't be concerned re 2nd hand,you're not using it in a commercial situation...as someone else on here did! You will need 3 phase electrical capability though....I think. Check out my favorite Gumtree,facebook and fleabay.
On my Pro Park 8s (its the same as the Tufflift TLV3.6PH-S) the platform does not rest on the lifting cables but rather on the mechanical locks on all 4 corners. To lower the car one needs to first raise the platform by about 40mm to be able to disengage the lock. You have to hold the safety lock lever off in order to lower the platform. The locks are every 100mm, so that's the most it would fall before engaging if you let go of the safey lock . The cables & hydraulics are only being used when lifting or lowering. I''ve attached some crappy pictures from years ago Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
OK, Molnar, 3 phase can be converted to single phase according to some people I know who service them
...and depending on the age of them,have the locks Mike is going on about. I would suspect/believe that would be an Aussie design rule at some stage as the 2nd hand one I bought had 'em and would have been about 10 years old 9 years ago.
Surely there is money to be made out of a dog that can drive a car? Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
Ian I think all the new Molnars are made in China now just like the new Milwaukee tools..Dad bought one from Repco many years ago and back then they were still being made here...
It won’t change until BUYERS start putting their money where their mouth is and actually KNOW where stuff comes from. One of the things governments need to do is enforce online advertising t0 the same standards as normal: identify product manufacturer and ‘made in’ and ‘Australian content percentage’ information that is mandatory on goods sold off the shelf. This is a loophole for online sales at present. I don’t buy anything in the supermarket without reading the lable - Aussie only except for ethnic products and a few odd things where I reckon the foreign stuff is better (eg Italian tinned tomatoes and I’m addicted to original Sirena tinned tuna! and Lurpak butter but I only use that on sangers and toast Aussie butter for cooking). Lucky here as I get local Jersey milk, yum!
I love the way package labelling is allowed to say "made from imported ingredients", which is code for "made with Chinese ingredients"
