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I'd like stands that go down to 10 inches so I don't have to jack the car way up in the air. The $25 stands Advanced Auto Parts go down to 10.5 inches. Allegedly.
The 5372's are 12" minimum. The Pittsburgh's are 11.75 minimum. I'd rather go with 3 ton than 2 ton, and HF's are the same price for their 3 ton stands.
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6x6's work wonders too.
No way in the world am I trusting some pieces of scrap wood to hold up a 2354 pound chunk of metal and plastic. Wood slides and splinters. Wood isn't made of steel or aluminum, and it's not specifically designed or tested by companies who sell jack stands. Pretty sure if it was, they'd be selling wooden jack stands on a regular basis.
I posted this on a different forum:
http://www.hyundaiperformance.com/forums...html#post818410
"This is what you have:
2.5 Ton Aluminum Racing Floor Jack with RapidPump®
The JEGS one is about $70 more (if you don't count the jack stands) at $224.99. Someone at JEGS thought it would be a brilliant idea to make the kit of jack stands and the jack the exact same price as if you'd bought them separately. Price went up by $30, now my top pick is gone. They didn't have the bundle on sale or anything, so I incorrectly assumed the price was stable. A 10% price increase overnight is hardly what I could call stable. The JEGS 3 ton version is $100 more than the HF racing jack. I could maybe get the 3 ton JEGS $260 jack and one of the jack stand sets listed below.
These are almost the cheapest set of jack stands I could find:
3 Ton Steel Jack Stands $26.74, a difference of $18.54 between those and the OTC Tools 5372 stands. I like the (probably) superior build quality of the 5372's, and the placement of the feet underneath the stand rather than the feet recessed above floor height with the Pittsburgh stands. 2354 pounds is "nothing" until half of that suddenly drops while your hands are halfway in its guts--jack stands are the last thing I want to skimp on--jacks, sure, no biggie if it fails during pumping, goes right back where you started; chocks, a little less risk, because it's forward or backward single-axis motion (until it falls off stands, and then you've got a rolling falling chunk of more than a ton of metal and plastic), but jack stands are what can make the difference between a night of vehicle maintenance and a night in the ICU.
Thanks for your reply. I think I can get by with cheaper stuff, I'm just wary of anything with more than a few negative reviews and a bad general reputation for poor build quality. I could probably get the 1.5 ton junky HF racing jack for $90, the junky HF stands for $27, and save myself $193 worth of overkill. I dunno what to do. Probably hyping this and overthinking it too much. Further thoughts?"
I've also thought about spending the extra $50 and getting the 3 ton aluminum JEGS jack and then getting the Pittsburgh or OTC stands. Without the stands as part of the JEGS purchase, buying the more expensive jack seems like a pretty good bargain for the extra 2000 lbs of capacity. I'm still undecided on the two jack stands.