Re: jack slipped

["Alexander van Gerbig" <Audi_80@email.msn.com>]

    Yikes!  I would never go anywhere underneath my car with the Audi jack
being the only thing holding it up.  I actually use an Audi jack as my
garage jack to lift the car then I always put the jack stand underneath and
lower all the weight onto the jstand.  Then I remove any wheels I need to.
The Audi jack has never rolled or folded except once which was my mistake on
my nicely lowered 80.  The tires were covered in road dirt from the dirt
road and the garage has a slippery cement floor.  Need less to say I went to
high on one side of the car with the Audi jack and the driver's front tire
slipped very slowly.  I held onto the jack and slowly let the car slide.
The jack popped out and has worked perfectly since, just for lifting and
lowering, never for anymore than a minute or so.
    Although I'd have to say the Audi jack is an easy to use, lightweight,
and effective jack.  I got in a bind in Canada at 2AM in the middle of no
where. A friend an I had pissed off a truck full of angry, drunken
Canadians, inadvertently of course, and then they proceeded to chase us down
a 2 lane stretch of highway doing 100+mph.  I slammed on the brakes and did
a speedy u-turn.  During that u-turn I damaged one of the front tires,
luckily the tire held out so I could speed away fast enough so that the
truck couldn't catch up.  The tire split in half and died 3 miles down the
road.  (Jack Content Here)==>I have never changed a tire that fast in my
life, 5 minutes with the Audi jack which acted perfectly.  The worst part
was the donut tire had 10psi in it, made it to a truck stop and nearly wore
through the sidewall of the donut.  What a night, and the only thing that
worked properly was the jack, and the tire iron.

Regards,

Alexander van Gerbig -- '88 Audi 80

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