Using car ramps with lowered cars?

HamZilla · 3 Sep 2009 at 15:32

How do you use (if possible) car ramps with lowered suspension cars?

I picked up a set of car ramps but how do I get my Cupra up them without scraping the bumpers?

benjo · 3 Sep 2009 at 15:34

Get coilovers

shauncr91 · 3 Sep 2009 at 15:35

Planks of wood.

Firestar_3x · 3 Sep 2009 at 15:35

Wood blocks to decrease the slope, or don't use them and jack the car up and put it on stands, which is what i do.

Or if you have a good enough jack, jack the car up and put the stands under the wheels.

Dup · 3 Sep 2009 at 15:37

Our standard SAAB 9-5 won't even fit on ramps due to the distance from bumper to wheel. Sadly I had to use this due to the driveway being loose gravel and I ended up addign a row of bricks to gradually get it up in the air. Quite amusing with an automatic and spat a few bricks out on the way up

TaKeN · 3 Sep 2009 at 15:40

I have to drive my 306 HDi onto bricks.. just so I can get the trolley jack under it

I've not messed with the Suspension either

NVP · 3 Sep 2009 at 15:43

It's not really an answer but my friend had a lowered e36 with "lightweight" (cheap/flimsy) bumpers and skirts and he took it to a "friends" garage for some repair (mistake!), they popped it up on the ramp and snapped his skirts like a twig! To fix it, the geeza put some ugly metal bolts on either side of the crack to join it back together as they said it was too thin to fibreglass it over. They gave it back to him like this without mentioning what they had done, my mate complained saying that they have to replace the skirts but they ended up leaving it as it was and just not charging for the other work done... He ended up with a bargain as he fibreglassed them back like normal himself.

Quite a pointless story I know... just thought I'd share.

Lethagized · 3 Sep 2009 at 16:23

get 2 pieces of thick timber and put a piece on each ramp, so in effect you're making the ramp twice as long and not as steep. Works a treat. Alternatively get a row of house bricks and line them up in front of the ramps. Drive onto the bricks then onto the ramps.

*Moangroan* · 3 Sep 2009 at 19:06

Have a look on ebay you can get ramp extension which help with lower cars.

Or look at the pics of the ramp extensions and get yourself a bit of angle iron and a mate who will weld them up for u.

slowrunner · 3 Sep 2009 at 21:07

2x8 timbers, about 3ft long with one end of each placed on top of the first rung of the ramp has allways worked for me, bar the occasional car where I've needed 8ft long ones with a brick under the middle and the ends on the second rung.

It used to be a major problem with getting an mot for me, as the local garage used to take the veiw of "if it scrapes going onto the ramp (4-poster), it fails". How I lol'dmao when they were told they had to spend £3k digging a recess into the concrete floor so the ramp was level with the rest of the mot area floor.