Jack Collapse - A Warning

[dingah2]

Last week an owner of a modded XR6T Ute brought his jack in for us to see!

Hole Hell this thing looked like a piece of twised tin foil.

That day he had used the jack to change his rear tyres twice and on the second occasion had just located the last rear tyre on the studs and whammo, down comes the ute.

A very chilling reminder to what is written in every handbook and on factory scissor jacks - do NOT get under the car if it is resting solely on that apparatus!

Dingah

Edited 10/03/07 09:01 PM by dingah2

[G6ET8U]

Too right there dingah... they hardly look like they could hold themselves up let alone a car.

Close call...

Jack

[YPURV4]

Yeah mine broke when I was changing a rim I had a block under there aswell but, it scared the sh*t out of me.

useless piece of crap.

[jEtONiT]

ford should get sued for not making a proper jack.. that's just fcuked.

[Ralph Wiggum]

How much wieght was in the back of the ute at the time?

[YPURV4]

Mine failed under standed weight and yes I had it in the right spot.

There just crap.

[kramo]

Thanks for the reminder guys. I'll make sure I never get under a car supported by a jack. You know sometimes you say to yourself 'Ah, I'll be alright!'. Never again.

[mbjunior99]

I have used mine in my XR6 Turbo and also GT and both times never had a problem. Might have to be extra careful if I need to use it again

[86gav]

Mine let go while I was using it on my EL, Just folded in half, not worth there weight in pig sh*t f u ask me.

Cheers

Gav

[SAMSXR6T]

Yeah there not made to well. I have a habit of placing the spare tyre under the car for that same reason..