I'm 75% sold on the 10k Challenger Versymmetric 2 post lift (VLE10), but still considering the ProKar 9k lift. The ProKar is about $1700 which is about the bill for all the concrete work, and comes with similar warranty.
This is strictly for personal / hobby use, and will likely never pay for itself in jobs performed. I will be shocked if I use it more than once a month. I am looking at the verymmetric because of it's 3 stage arms, and how possibly it's pretty dang universal.
- Curious if anyone had any first hand experience with this lift and a variety of veicles? Mainly curious if the verymmetric is gimmicky, or actually maybe it is a cool hybrid of the standard and asymmetric designs. Or maybe the door ends up right where the post is anyways?
- For those that have installed, what have you guys done as far as the concrete? I'm too close to a joint, so I have to re-pour something new anyways. I am 75% leaning towards a 4' x 15 pad, 12" deep with reebar and tieing into existing surrounding pad. Lift Manufacturers have different requirements depending on brand. Some just require 4'x4'x12" Piers / islands, and some recommend the full rectangular pad like I'm considering. The lift sales people and local concrete contractors say 4x4' x 6"-8", which I don't really see stated on any manufacture's website. The exact lift I'm eyeing doesn't have details so I'll be calling the mfg (and not sales people) directly tomorrow.
Here is list of potential things I'd be working on:
- Standard SUV's (FJ80 / wife's Durango)
- Diesel F250 4x4 Crew Cab
- side by sides
- Lowered track cars (5th gen ZL1 Camaro & BMW 3 series)
- Short wheel base 4x4's (FJ40 / SWB Jeep / Suzuki Samurai)
- If I can figure out a motorcycle adapter I'd probably lift that too eventually.
This is strictly for personal / hobby use, and will likely never pay for itself in jobs performed. I will be shocked if I use it more than once a month. I am looking at the verymmetric because of it's 3 stage arms, and how possibly it's pretty dang universal.
- Curious if anyone had any first hand experience with this lift and a variety of veicles? Mainly curious if the verymmetric is gimmicky, or actually maybe it is a cool hybrid of the standard and asymmetric designs. Or maybe the door ends up right where the post is anyways?
- For those that have installed, what have you guys done as far as the concrete? I'm too close to a joint, so I have to re-pour something new anyways. I am 75% leaning towards a 4' x 15 pad, 12" deep with reebar and tieing into existing surrounding pad. Lift Manufacturers have different requirements depending on brand. Some just require 4'x4'x12" Piers / islands, and some recommend the full rectangular pad like I'm considering. The lift sales people and local concrete contractors say 4x4' x 6"-8", which I don't really see stated on any manufacture's website. The exact lift I'm eyeing doesn't have details so I'll be calling the mfg (and not sales people) directly tomorrow.
Here is list of potential things I'd be working on:
- Standard SUV's (FJ80 / wife's Durango)
- Diesel F250 4x4 Crew Cab
- side by sides
- Lowered track cars (5th gen ZL1 Camaro & BMW 3 series)
- Short wheel base 4x4's (FJ40 / SWB Jeep / Suzuki Samurai)
- If I can figure out a motorcycle adapter I'd probably lift that too eventually.
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