# Home car lifts **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** gt, porsche\ **Created:** [April 18, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622 "2010-04-18T14:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![surfbud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@surfbud](https://community.cartalk.com/u/surfbud)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/1 "2010-04-18T14:25:29Z")
Hi All I’m looking to buy a lift for the garage and looking for some general info on finding a GOOD one. Any help wood be appreaciated Thanks ---
**Author:** ![mshugna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@mshugna](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mshugna)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/2 "2010-04-18T16:21:25Z")
go to home page and search “home car lifts” and you will get…[http://www.cartalk.com/content/googleresults.html?cx=partner-pub-7133054861616181%3Ahi3ycasbap0&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=home+car+lift&sa=Search&siteurl=www.cartalk.com%2Findex.html](http://www.cartalk.com/content/googleresults.html?cx=partner-pub-7133054861616181%3Ahi3ycasbap0&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=home+car+lift&sa=Search&siteurl=www.cartalk.com%2Findex.html) ---
**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/3 "2010-04-18T18:29:15Z")
Better check your real estate zoning… ---
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/4 "2010-04-18T18:38:30Z")
I saw a Suburban pull a post for an electric lift right out of the concrete, investigation blamed the concrete mix, it was a new install. ---
**Author:** ![ebko87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@ebko87](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ebko87)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/5 "2010-04-19T00:47:44Z")
I bought a 4 post, 8000lb lift in February. Besides being able to easily work on my cars and pickup truck, I store my pickup ontop of where I park my car. If you have the head room in your garage, I would suggest you get one capable of lifting the extra height (usually about 82"). Also, if you buy a 4 post lift with casters (which almost all of them have), you won’t need any special permits and there aren’t any zoning requirements because it is then considered portable. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/6 "2010-04-19T01:29:28Z")
“Any help wood be appreaciated” I recommend that you get lifts made of steel. Wood is not strong enough. ;-)) ---
**Author:** ![Flagman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7cd45c/32.png) [@Flagman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Flagman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/7 "2010-04-19T01:38:45Z")
You can also buy a portable air bag type lift that can be moved when not needed, or when collapsed can be parked over. Wouldn’t require installation but you would need an air compressor. [http://www.herkules.us/index\_vl.php](http://www.herkules.us/index_vl.php) ---
**Author:** ![ebko87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@ebko87](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ebko87)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/8 "2010-04-19T02:08:51Z")
How much money are you planning on spending ?? Are you buying the lift for only working on cars or for storage as well ? ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/9 "2010-04-19T13:11:23Z")
Zoning??? Really??? I can understand if you plan on doing other peoples repair work…but never heard of a problem with installing one for you home use…and I’ve been on couple of towns zoning boards. ---
**Author:** ![surfbud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@surfbud](https://community.cartalk.com/u/surfbud)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/10 "2010-04-20T10:56:00Z")
I’m looking at storage only inside the garage $ 3,000/4,000 ---
**Author:** ![surfbud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@surfbud](https://community.cartalk.com/u/surfbud)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/11 "2010-04-20T10:57:38Z")
Thanks What brand and are you happy? ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/12 "2010-04-20T12:59:17Z")
There’s this guy in Pelham NH that has a bunch of classic cars. I’ve driven by his place a few times taking my son to baseball games. Many times he’d have cars parked outside…different ones…His garage was huge… Well one day I drove by and the garage door was open…and able to see inside…He had at least 8 lifts…classic cars on top of each lift…with another classic car parked underneath. I was (and still am) EXTREMELY JEALOUS. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/home-car-lifts/47622/13 "2010-04-20T23:02:04Z")
Are you sure you have enough clearance up top?