Car Lift

Check out Greg Smith Equipment. They have a big selection.

X2 on Greg Smith. I got one of their Atlas 8000 lb. 4-post lifts and couldn't be happier with it. Deciding on 2-post vs. 4-post vs. portable is a trade off, you'll have to decide what your priorities are. No lift has all positives and no negatives. I didn't want to have to cut out and re-pour my shop floor, and I wanted to be able to work underneath the lift on another project if needed (the car sits on top, out of the way). I like being able to roll it around, I've moved it twice trying to find the best location for it before I anchor it to the floor. Anchoring is optional, but I like the idea. True, I can't pull a wheel that easy but I don't do that often, and I made up a method to use a pair of scissor jacks to get the wheels up, then use jack stands on top of the lift to hold up the car. It works fine.

The one thing I'd mention on the lift, is the instructions were both abysmal and criminally negligent. Besides the usual tortured English from trying to translate Chinese to English, it was horrid for bad photos, instructions that made no sense, missing - and VITAL - information, and so on. I got through it, but I was oh-so-tempted to blister the dealer for selling such a great lift with such lousy assembly instructions.