Ugh, now you're tempting me. I have this thing where I just loathe jacking cars and putting them on stands. I actually have two jacks now because the vette I owned basically required it. Something about being cramped under a car knowing that what stands between you and death is a safety pin holding up the stand arms just causes me a ton of stress especially when I really gotta get some torque behind a bolt. Having that sounds like a good compromise between a jack/stands vs. an actual lift. I'm just getting old, getting under a car on just stands doesn't give me enough breathing room anymore.

 

I built some wheel cribs similar to these:
I've been using them for years...

 

He was tired of putting stands on subframes... not all subframes are mounting points. I thought about that as well, they sell collapsible tire stands as well but the issue is getting it off the ground to begin with. I actually have a good set of stands that I'd bet my life on, the issue is that it doesn't get high enough, and buying higher stands is sorta irrelevant since most jacks only go so far unless you're willing to stack wood like how the guy in the video did. Even if I was willing to do stack wood, on alot of sportier/lower cars, the jack points don't allow you enough access. My vette for instance had the jack points on the subframe, IIRC around where the lower control arm mounts, no side seams like most cars. The issue is that when you jack one side up, even a little, the other side would compress so you won't be able to fit a jack under. In fact, to even get a normal jack under the vette, I literally had to grab the fender, lift, and kick the jack under to clear the rocker panel. Also, you can't work on the brakes/suspension either.

That is cheap, but I don't have unlimited space so not a good solution for my case.

 

Do it. You won't regret it if you plan to keep doing some work on your cars.

The safety factor is well worth the cost. For me though, I do actually ENJOY doing some car stuff when I have the time and this gives you peace of mind and lots of extra space. The second thing is that I have this pet peave of being taken advantage of. I really did not want to do my PDK service, would have paid a reasonable rate to do it. Watched some videos, two hour job, less than $180 in parts. The two quotes were a little over a thousand and $2k. I think professional tradesmen and mechanics are worth their weight in gold when you NEED them. But they can basically ask anything they want these days and for some things you just don't NEED them. This thing gives you so much more ability to tackle things you might not otherwise try.

I am trying to put in a hot tub this summer and need to run a 50 amp circuit trenched out to the location 60 feet away. The LOWEST quote I got was $7k. One was $11k. I am not comfortable undertaking this project on my own so I have to pay the cost and it bugs the living crap out of me. But now with anything cars related, I will just see how hard it is to tackle myself without even thinking of giving the opportunity to get soaked. And I can use it to maintain a car hobby in retirement.

The internet says Costco runs a sale on them once a year for several hundred off retail but I watched for a few months and no dice so I ordered of Amazon.

 

I hear ya on that, home improvement work around here is astronomical since all the techies essentially write blank checks for total home makeovers, all the contractors are in high demand especially the ones that do good work. My garage needed new shelving and the drywall was done in pieces, so I wanted to finish up the walls, rip out the old shelving, put new shelves in and paint. Quotes were in the thousands so I said screw it, how hard can drywall be. Turns out, not very, just tedious and time consuming being my first time, but I knocked it out and did a better job than the last guy I paid to do some of it, and I used the savings to put in some led lights.

Fortunately, I have some good mechanics I can run to when I don't feel like doing the work myself, and my wifes car and mine are both relatively new so I typically do the maintenance at the dealer just to keep an eye on things for any early issues, but I sense pretty soon I'll be doing the maintenance on our cars again as I have in the past, hence the Quickjack thing always being on my radar.

 

Have done the pdk service on our macan twice now (2017 gts). I have an old sears jack and typical jack stands and it works just fine. Hardest part of the service is setting the correct fluid level when it’s 105 outside and the trans temp can’t be much higher than that to set.