OK, you know the picture;
You've got up in the morning and it's raining cats and dogs. You were going to
get under the car and change the oil and filters because you've got to go on a
long trip in the next couple of days and already the service is overdue. There's
no way you are going to be able to get under it out on the grass; too wet and
uncomfortable so in the garage it is!!
Out with the ramps, lay them out in front of the car on the nice clean, smooth
concrete floor. Get the wife or someone to guide you up and spend the next half
hour swearing and screaming as the car slides those ramps all over that nice smooth
concrete floor. By now wife is limping around because she tried to hold her foot
against the ramp to stop it from moving and weighing 53 kilos she doesn't really
have a weight advantage over the 1000 kg car being driven by a 145 bhp motor.
One ramp has slipped more than the other so now you've also got a hunk of fibre
glass missing from your front spoiler/air dam. Sounding more familiar?
Here's an easy solution:
Get an old seat belt and fix it to the stopper on the wheel
ramp.
When you go to drive on (particularly with front wheel drive cars) instead of
the car pushing the ramp away, the actual driving action of the front wheels
tends to "lock" the ramp in position and even pull it towards the
vehicle instead of pushing it away. You usae the cars own weight and power to
keep it where you want it.
Brilliant idea that works and which I saw suggested by a Bob Smith on a bulletin
board in the UK.
Check out the photo. Every set of ramps should be like this.
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