Posts tagged 'car lifts'

This week's new chapter in our ongoing Car Lift Buyer's Guide is all about a topic near and dear to our wallets: car lift pricing. Car lift prices can really run the gamut depending on what capacity and style you’re after, so it's important to know the lay of the land before venturing out. Read More

Want to know how to easily tell the difference between a car lift dealer who will treat you right and one who will leave you in the lurch? How about a car lift manufacturer who will provide you with valuable customer support instead of making you fend for yourself? Read the Dealers and Manufacturers chapter in BendPak's Best Car Lift Buyer's Guide. Read More

Today's chapter fills you in on the importance of ALI certification and the role that the Automotive Lift Institute plays in making car lifts safer for everyone. As we discussed last week, there’s no single safety feature that will work for all car lifts. The Automotive Lift Institute ensures that not only are the safety features sound, but also that the car lift itself works exactly as advertised. In fact, many of the car lift safety features that we went over last week were pioneered by ALI members. Read More

Today's chapter focuses on something that's very important to car lift operators--safety features. There's a lot of different methods that reputable car lift manufacturers use to make their lifts safer. Now's your opportunity to learn all about them. It's no secret that a car lift has to hold thousands of pounds of automotive metal every day. Whether you're a hobbyist wrenching in your garage or a seasoned automotive service technician, these essential safety devices keep you protected every time a car or truck goes up on the lift. Read More

Jalopnik featured our good friends at Drop Top Customs today in an article about the new Chevrolet Camaro’s conspicuous lack of a T-Top option. As the article states, “They’re ridiculous and sorta vulgar and they leak and rattle, but they’re so damn cool.” We couldn’t agree more. Read More

Last year, we brought you The Top 10 Things You Need to Know Before Buying a Lift, which we’ve heard has helped a lot of people. Now we’re picking up where that guide left off and taking a hard look at your different options when buying a new car lift. This new guide will help you get the best lift for you--even if that means not going with BendPak. That’s why we call it, The Best Car Lift: A Guide. Read More

If you've been following along on Twitter, Facebook and of course the blog, then you're already eagerly anticipating this Friday's episode of Garage Mahal with Car and Driver Magazine. Their garage was in serious need of renovation, so DIY Network called in only the best equipment from BendPak / Ranger to help turn it into a bona fide testing facility with all the works. At the heart of this newly anointed workshop is none other than a BendPak XPR-9FX Two-Post Car Lift. Read More

Here at BendPak, a lot of us put as much love into our own vehicles as we do into the BendPak car lifts we make. And there's nothing like seeing all that love and tender care pay off during a hard day at the track. One of our own intrepid BendPak team went down to Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond this past weekend for a particularly pulse-pounding Memorial Day. Read More

As we reported a couple months ago, we’re not afraid of a little friendly competition. So from time to time we pit our most popular car lifts against the other guys for a battle royale of automotive lifting metal. This one's been in the works for a while and we’re very pleased to bring you a new, comprehensive chapter on the Study in Lift Design website. In this head-to-head challenge, we take a closer look at a lift we’ve heard quite a bit about, the Direct-Lift Pro-Park 8 Plus. Read More

What can this baby do? On the surface it looks and acts very similar to the RL-8500 Combination Brake Lathe: the same great, time-tested design; super-duty construction; unsurpassed safety features and conveniences to help you get the job done faster than your competition; infinitely variable speeds and the accuracy to form perfect cuts on the first pass. But the real big news on this brake lathing machine is the extended capacity spindle. The RL-8500XLT brake lathe is capable of handling brake drums that are up to a massive 10 inches deep! Now there isn’t a brake drum in the world that can’t be trued and refinished to perfection by the incredible Ranger RL-8500XLT Heavy-Duty Brake Lathe from Ranger. Read More