This is why you should always use good strong jack stands
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This is why you should always use good strong jack stands
Local story today on the news that happened here in my city:
When working under your car, always make sure you have good, strong jack stands. Its a great idea to put your wheels under the car as well so if the jacks do fail...the car will and on the wheels and not your body.
Police have released the name of the man who died after the car he was work fell on top of him.
Police say 45-year-old Tawfik Amine was working on his car just after 12:30p.m. on Asbury Street in Rochester. Police say the car fell off the jacks and Amine died from his injuries.
Police are calling this an accidental death.
Police say 45-year-old Tawfik Amine was working on his car just after 12:30p.m. on Asbury Street in Rochester. Police say the car fell off the jacks and Amine died from his injuries.
Police are calling this an accidental death.
When working under your car, always make sure you have good, strong jack stands. Its a great idea to put your wheels under the car as well so if the jacks do fail...the car will and on the wheels and not your body.
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You go under a car held up with jacks?!
Have you not heard of axle stands or ramps? Jacks are for raising the car, should never be used to hold it in place!
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From: tacos
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i tend to use both jacks and stands
neither is guaranteed to be safer than the other, ive had both fail on me
my brother fractured a rib while working on my moms old minivan and the ramps bent (yes they were rated for the weight of the van)
luckily he was like me and kept the wheel and tire under it, along as a backup bottle jack
neither is guaranteed to be safer than the other, ive had both fail on me
my brother fractured a rib while working on my moms old minivan and the ramps bent (yes they were rated for the weight of the van)
luckily he was like me and kept the wheel and tire under it, along as a backup bottle jack
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From: Floating around the AUDM
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I had a scissor jack completely fold in half on me once.
I always use stands, then leave the jack under there as well (with no weight on it) AND put a wheel under there.
On the other side of the coin, I've had to change a tire and remove an exhaust with only a scissor jack... in wet sand... it sank a few times. sh*t was very ghetto.