Look into small floor jacks they come in a case. Probably chinese but they'd work a few times or dig for a quality one.
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Maybe an aluminum floor jack? I would figure out a secure mounting system to safely stow the jack and its handle. It would suck to have it roll around and damage a 1/4 panel.
Compact floor jack. This just an example, I'm sure there are better ones. Note carrying case.
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Forget about a jack.
Call a rollback and get that baby back to the house if there’s going to be any jacking going on. Just saying.
Call a rollback and get that baby back to the house if there’s going to be any jacking going on. Just saying.
If I were taking a trip across country like Hawkrod did. I would have a jack, spare, and tools. Just cruising around and going to local cruise nights. No jack, spare, or tools.
Hagerty includes roll back road side service. But might be limited to # miles.
Hagerty includes roll back road side service. But might be limited to # miles.
I use those aluminum Harbor Freight jacks. They go on sale for 79 bucks. I have three of them,and will probably buy three more so I don't have to keep moving them from car to car.
Best I am aware of is AAA Premier. Any car I am in can be towed for up to 200 miles free. For both of my trips across country, I figured that would be enough to get me somewhere where I could fix the car. If any of you guys go on a long trip, take me along for the towing!
In 2022, I DID use the towing, although it was "only" like 60 miles. The coil went on the car and I had used my spare already. We had to get towed to the nearest small town where I could buy a coil. (I screwed up because I had a Flamethrower coil in it that used full voltage, so I had a wire shunt bypassing the ballast resistor. When that went, my spare was a standard coil, but I forgot to remove the wire shunt. Full voltage killed my spare coil in a few days, and of course it happened in the middle of nowhere...)
Anyway, enough hijacking RC's thread - although I recommend having things like a jack, tools and reasonable spare parts if you will be going any real distance...
X2. A phone and a wallet. There are a lot of things that can go wrong with a car and a trunk full of tools, jacks and tires aren't going to fix them all.Forget about a jack.
Call a rollback and get that baby back to the house if there’s going to be any jacking going on. Just saying.
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I have a friend who works for a towing company. My car still has the original spare and jack, and they've never been used. That won't change.
In my picture, my ignition switch went out.
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When I retired, I spent almost a week sorting out the spare parts and tools I carried in my truck. I'd used all of them at one time or another, over the course of 1.3 million miles. I still ended up getting towed three times. Not a bad track record, but there's always something waiting that won't get fixed on the side of the road.
My car is computer driven. I have a port under my dash to plug into just like any new car. While I check it, periodically, that stuff is electronic and works great and a few minutes later, it doesn't.
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