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Originally Posted by David.m
terrywang it's your money but these are currently on sale at $49 a pair (& what I have) compared to $184 a pair for the esco, and the SCA's have dual pins. If you've already bought the metal jack pads and really want to use them fair enough, but from my experience your spending money for no practical benefit.
https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/p/...kg/563871.html
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The issue is where would you put this on the front end of the car? If you put it on the lower control arms you risk damaging them and the bushings as they're not meant to take weight. On the rear end you can use the subframe. So it's not an all encompassing solution. Its also a reason why I don't use standard jack stands to lift my car.
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Originally Posted by terrywang
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My advice is as follows:
1) if you're looking to save money buy 2 jack pads, 2 jacks, and use ramps. You'll use the jacks to lift the car onto the ramps - 2 jacks to simulatenously lift the back up onto the ramps and then do the front. You want the rear on ramps first because it has parking brakes and you can leave it in gear.
4 ramps are also really cheap compared to 4 esco jack stands, and this is what I use currently. The only con is that you cant do any jobs that require the wheels to be off, so that's what I currently use my jack rod for (plus axle stands etc, but that's a different setup and story).
2) buy the jack stands, then you want to measure how high your jack can lift the car rather than how tall the jack stand is. That influences what jack stand you can get. If the jack is too short you'll prop it on something like I stack large planks of wood to give my jack extra height to lift my SUV. Make sure it's really wide so there's no chance it can roll off.
3) renn stands: these are the most convenient jack stands. But they're not cheap.
4) quick jack: really expensive but very convenient, problem is it's hard to store since they're big and take up a lot of space.