Fiddy

Just been and picked mine up, its never going to win any design awards, and its no top brand make, but the jack, axle stands, and wheel chocks, look fairly decent for the price IMO, and it means i can retire my trusty old scissor jack

RichieST

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sounds good fiddster! Maybe I should get mine free for advertising them lol

mcst

My thoughts exactly, i got mine yesterday. For occasional DIY use its fine its not like its used everyday. Some jobs i do i could do with 2 jacks and my 25+ year old jack is showing its age now. End of the day it was less than £15.

vaughant

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How much are they guys?

Lee1

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.js...=0000005307142

Glenn_

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The way fiddy goes through wheels he will soon wear it out.

vaughant

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Cheers dude!!I'll pick one up after work tommorow,as soon as I find b&q Aberdeen!!!

Fiddy

You should do rich, the amount of people who must have bought them after you posted the link


Its nothing special, but this for under £15, gotta be cheap

Fiddy

good point, well made. my scissor jack had never been used when i got my car, 14 months later, its fucked

mcst

Fuck knows how you've got on so long with just a scissor jack!

Fiddy

with great bastard difficulty matt, ive done all sorts on the scissor jack, even fitted my decat, that was arse twitching time, there not bad if your just changing wheels, but when your under the car, different kettle of fish mate, the fucking things are lethal.

Matt_16v

Good stuff, picking mine up tomorrow

Edit - no idea where the random thumbs down came from!!

muz

Those stands look identical to the ones my granddad bought for me in Aldi 4-5 years ago for ........£3.49 a pair!

I'm still using them to this day though and I'm known to throw/kick the odd axel stand

Chip

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same as all the other cheap jack sets like halfords etc, ok if you look after them, if you put any side loading on the jack though they twist pretty easily.

botters

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just be carefull with those jacks the heads are so small and unpadded they tend to dent whatever they lift on especially chassis legs and sill lips

botters

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your fucking mad getting under a car on a scissor jack my cousin was killed a few years ago doing this you can push a car off a scissor jack no problem

Joshy

almost chopped my leg off changing a front brake disk on a scisser jack when it rolled backwards and i wasent even under the car!

i was lucky it went back first then down as it landed with a thud on my baggy track suit bottoms...

would never use a scisser jack again, even at the side of the road

R5FORD

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So you risked you life using a scissor jack because you didnt wabt to spend 50quid on a proper jack?

Joshy

not for a 18 quid disc to get it through an MOT no....

plus the fiesta came with one

nickscunny

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I got a RAC jack. Trusty thing it is... had it 6 years and hasnt let me down yet...... (touch wood lol)

cossie4i+

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A friend of mine died last month due to this

Steve

rs_traynor

i got myn on monday.bargain

Glenn_

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Lol at fiddy taking pics of it. Is there anything yet havent got pics of lol. Your mad going under the car with it jacked ur on a scissor jack.

Fiddy

There was a recent thread on here about someone who did die when a scissor jack failed, that really was the eye opener

Fiddy

mate, usually glenn who posted in this thread lets me use his garage with all of his top of the jacks/tools, and does the work for me, but on the occasions when him and his garage are not available, i have just used the scissor jack

Fiddy

done it for years mush when you havnt been available

Fiddy

that was the thread that opened my eyes steve, again, R.I.P to your freind

fogulbennett

going for mine tomorrow

Chip

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If I ever go under a car without an axle stand under it I always just chuck a wheel under the sill or similar so that if it falls it can only go a finite distance, I got partially crushed by a car about 15 years ago and learnt my lesson then, luckily a large mate was on hand to take enough of the weight for me to wriggle out but it so easily could have gone the other way if I was alone at the time.

Gravity is a very relentless enemy!

Matt_16v

Jesus, RIP mate. One of my mates uncles also went the same way, was underneath a car on a scissor jack and it fell on him. Not a nice way to go, and probably goes someway to explain why i CANNOT get underneath a car when it's just on a scissor jack!!!! Literally, try and shuffle underneath it but my body just won't go!!

ballin

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I wouldn't buy that for any money, looks fucking shite all of it. the only useful bit is the chock in my opinion!

Matt_16v

Can anyone who has actually used one confirm this?

RichieST

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Please elaborate? Or were you expecting more for £14

mcst

As others have said you're mad getting under any car unsupported on a jack, i struggled with a scissor jack just swapping wheels before but soon got a trolley jack once i started doing anything else. I got sick of retrieving it from under the spare wheel anyway!

I do just the same if nothing more suitable is to hand. Even just changing a wheel

See the original thread https://passionford.com/forum/genera...t-b-and-q.html theres some more constructive feedback from others that have actually used the stuff!

Since moving and no longer having a nice big garage anymore i'm not spending a fortune on a jack when its often getting wet outside. Mines used mostly on my Jimny after its been off road anyway and it usually gets covered in shit while i clean up the brakes etc.. at £14.98 its essentially disposable if it lasts over a year its a bonus. Its made no worse than my current jack and thats been going strong for well over 25years!

PETEDUDE007

thats ten miles from me off i go lol!

Matt_16v

Cheers for the link to the original thread and the feedback. I think as mine, like most people i would imagine, will only be for occasional use it should fit the bill just fine. Might still lob a spare wheel under there though just in case!

ballin

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I wouldn't expect more at all, I'm saying I wouldn't buy or use that for any money.
The jack is flimsy, the jacking plate too small, and I wouldn't trust it to hold the weight for many months.
The axle stands are equally weak, and I would never climb under a car sitting on those and/or that jack, simple really.
£15 to hold up over a ton of metal, no thanks

fiend

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Please explain how the axle stands are weak..

Fiddy

Thats half price, they were £30 rich. so does that mean there twice as good as you initially thought ?

vaughant

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Got it tonight,had to goto the big b&q by the ski-slope,bridge of don were Fecking useless!!!