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What’s the best vehicle lift for you?

Garage Equipment Vehicle Lifts come in a range of styles and uses from 2 Post Lifts, 4 Post Lifts, Scissor Lifts and Wheel Alignment Lifts and ensuring that your garage workshop get the right equipment for the tasks at hand can be a daunting choice. So which do you choose?
Typically, car lifts fall into two brackets, Vehicle Servicing Lifts or Parking Lifts.

This article breaks down the various types of car lift and their uses to enable our customers to make an informed decision as to what particular car servicing lift is best suited to their needs.

2 Post Vehicle Lifts

Our range of 2 Post Car Service Lifts are perfect for professional mechanics or home enthusiasts. They are designed with ease for all vehicle servicing applications. At HJS Garage Equipment we have a range of Vehisle Lifts which come with either asymmetrical or symmetrical arms depending on the application you have.

2 Post Vehicle Lifts with symmetrical arms

When surface mounted 2 Post Vechile Lifts first appeared on the market, they all featured symmetrical arms. A vehicle servicing lift with symmetrical arms has four arms of the same length with the lifts posts standing in line across from each other, this places the vehicles centre of gravity inbetween the two posts and in the center of the vehicle, front to back.

Symmetrical lifts equalise the pressure on the lift’s posts and carriage, a symmetrical 2 post car lift affords the user a larger drive through area making them a great choice for long wheel base light commercial vehicles.

Symmetrical 2 post vehicle  lifts typically all come with one problem and that is when you place the vehicle onto the lift the front doors are lined up with the posts making it difficult to exit the vehicle without the risk of damaging the door on the post, as a way of removing this issue lift manufacturers designed a new and innovative way of engineering their 2 Post Lifts.

2 Post Vehicle Lifts with asymmetrical arms

In order to remove the problem of doors getting damaged when entering and exiting a vehicle 2 post lift manufacturers re-designed the configuration of the lifting arms to create asymmetrical 2 post lifts, On an asymmetrical lift, the front arms are slightly shorter than the rear arms, meaning the vehicle that is being place on the lift does not have to be driven as far forward as before this meant that the car door was no longer being blocked by the lift post.

This provided them with the solution to the door problem but presented an entirely new issue (Weight Distribution) this was solved by simply rotating the lift columns 30 degrees and the asymmetrical 2 post car lift was born, when the arms and post angles are set up in this way, the vehicles centre of gravity is properly balanced and there’s no extra wear on the lift’s structural components..

Our Range of Vehicle Lifts

HJS Garage Equipment supply all wide range of vehicle lifts for your workshop including;

4 Post Car Lifts With Ramps

4 post lifts have their own set of pros and cons to consider for instance a standard platform four post car lift has no jacking beam, this makes it difficult to gain access to the brakes, steering and suspension components and underside access to the vehicle is limited as the lift platforms restrict both access and visibility, however they are great for storage and for keeping a vehicle elevated for sustained periods of time.

Vehicle Scissor Lifts

Scissor lifts for workshops are come in a variety of designs and applications, short platform low rise to full platform ATL MOT lifts, scissor lifts can be very verstile and mobility of these lifts has been increasing in popularity, this is why we have a large range of low rise mobile scissor lifts avaiable, this means that they can be relocated to anywhere in the workshop or even outside to free up space as and when required, our range of scissor lifts feature a very low-profile when in the lowered position they can be easily driven over to place the vehicle in the correct position for lifting, they are of a robust but highly compact design and can lift up to 3 Tonnes with ease.

If you require further information on any of our lifts ranges please browse our Lifting Range online, contact us via our website or call us on: 01698 361526