![]() The reason that jack stands are so essential is that you should never crawl underneath a vehicle without being 100% certain that there's no chance of it falling down. “In action” report to follow in due course.If you're planning on doing any kind of work on your vehicle, even just basic maintenance, having a set of jack stands is an absolute necessity. Everything fits neatly into the canvas bag, which has a remarkably small footprint. And although my neighbours are considerate and careful, it’s nice to have some spare bits for it. However, once I’ve used it a few times and it’s been up and down the street with a few neighbours, it won’t seem to have been so expensive. So about 43cm is the maximum height this stand will hold your car at when used with a shoe and a puck. When the legs are extended to their maximum height, the overall height is 40.5cm or 44cm with the shoe and puck on top. With the flat shoe and rubber puck on top, the minimum height is 31cm. This is the assembled jack at minimum height. With the shoe on the top of the horizontal member, plus m puck, the total clearance is 7.7cm, although that will reduce to about 6.8cm when the puck top is pushed up into the jacking point on the car. I use one of these between the car and the jack ![]() If a flat shoe with curved corners is placed on top of the bar, the clearance increases to 5.2cm. This is the minimum extra clearance you will require above your jack pad to fit this between the jack pad and the jacking point on the car. It is shown above without a shoe attached (the shoe attaches via the hole). This fella is the horizontal top support. They also sent me two packs of pins and two canvass bags. For some reason they supplied two of each type. There are two types of shoes, a flat one with slightly raised corners (top left) and below them in the photo, a couple of seam grippers. ![]() At least I managed to get my feet out of the way. It weighs in at 5.5Kg and I can vouch for its weight and sturdy construction because I am now sitting with a black and swollen ankle, in a cold pack after dropping the bloody thing. I got hit with a VAT charge of £37.41 and a clearance fee of £11.25. But I couldn’t find anything like it in the UK and every time I use it, the potential disaster it could avert is beyond monetary measure. Rather a lot for a jack stand I’ll admit. It cost me $309 including a canvass bag which equated to approximately £221. Two days later the ransom demand appeared, was paid, and the package was released and delivered the next day. What they were trying to tell me was that there was a customs charge which would prevent delivery until paid. ![]() The best explanation appears to be that “attempted delivery” was one of a limited number of options available to the update inputter. There was no card pushed through the letter box. This got me wondering how I managed to miss it and if it may have been taken to a wrong address. The only confusing bit was an alert telling me that delivery had been attempted and failed. It took just over 2 weeks to arrive and it was possible to track it at every way point.
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