# The Ultimate Creeper **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [March 27, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446 "2015-03-27T20:34:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/1 "2015-03-27T20:34:11Z")
I don’t know if anyone has seen this yet, but watch this. Tester ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/2 "2015-03-27T21:13:12Z")
I remember seeing this awhile back. Unfortunately it seems to be vaporware. They tried to fund it via Indiegogo. They ended up raising $2600 out of the needed $100,000 before the campaign closed out. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/3 "2015-03-27T23:07:29Z")
That’s cool. But I know a few mechanics that are tinkering on being obese…that thing would push them over the edge. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/4 "2015-03-27T23:19:00Z")
Overly complicated Too many moving parts . . . more things to break Will the batteries be available, when they won’t hold a charge . . . ?! How expensive are these batteries . . . ?! I strongly suspect it won’t work very well, when I need to work under a truck, which is parked in the dirt, and it can’t be moved This is just a gadget, or toy, if you will 🍪 ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/5 "2015-03-28T01:54:36Z")
Donald Sutherland in Kelly’s Heroes. “Why do you have to be such a downer man? Always with the negatives.” Tester ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/6 "2015-03-28T02:06:35Z")
Or “catching some rays”: ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/7 "2015-03-28T02:28:15Z")
Go ahead and buy one, in that case I’ll let you be an “early adopter” of new technology ⚠ ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/8 "2015-03-28T02:40:19Z")
I don’t need one. I have a lift. 😉 I just thought it was cool. Tester ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/9 "2015-03-28T02:50:43Z")
Not my cup of tea but a pretty fascinating and innovative device with some serious engineering involved. ---
**Author:** ![MY\_2\_CENTS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@MY\_2\_CENTS](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MY_2_CENTS)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/10 "2015-03-28T03:09:47Z")
I want one! ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/11 "2015-03-28T05:33:23Z")
I’ll be a sourpuss I don’t even want one 😅 ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 6:40am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/12 "2015-03-28T06:40:00Z")
I have to ask how much it sells for. Therefore, I can’t afford it. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/13 "2015-03-28T06:52:35Z")
If the thing had a pot on it you’d never have to get up again… ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/14 "2015-03-28T06:52:48Z")
The Garage Journal referred to it as a 1000 dollar item to be marketed by DR equipment. That was a couple of years ago so I assume the market and price worked against it. Not that I’d really want one but one benefit I could see is that it might save the joints and spine of a mechanic. It’s very easy to break/separate/fracture something with the most benign movement. A downside might be dropping a wrench onto a lever and accidentally raising the thing while you’re under the car… 😉 ---
**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:** [March 28, 2015, 7:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/15 "2015-03-28T07:00:28Z")
It’s just some designer’s imagination run amok. I doubt if they sold a single one. I used to have dreams like that too. Especially after pepperoni pizza & beer. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 7:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/16 "2015-03-28T07:03:10Z")
**If the thing had a pot on it you’d never have to get up again…** Or, if you had some pot while on it you’d never have to get up again… ---
**Author:** ![MY\_2\_CENTS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@MY\_2\_CENTS](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MY_2_CENTS)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 7:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/17 "2015-03-28T07:13:19Z")
I have the ultimate creeper - a piece of cardboard. ---
**Author:** ![Yosemite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/yosemite/32/643_2.png) [@Yosemite](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 7:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/18 "2015-03-28T07:32:25Z")
I saw this a few years ago, I think on one of the “invention shows” that were running at the time. I researched it a little at the time, just out of curiosity and at the time DR…as in the DR mower were going to produce it, but I think that fell through for a lack of serious buyers. I figured that if I bought one, I’d have to invest in more bandages. The thing raises pretty fast and I figured I’d be the first to fuse my nose to a hot Cat. Hell I’d have lumps all over my forehead. It’s bad enough now…turning and banging your head on the lift as it is. Yosemite ---
**Author:** ![wentwest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wentwest/32/6073_2.png) [@wentwest](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wentwest)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 9:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-ultimate-creeper/89446/19 "2015-03-28T09:47:21Z")
Spend the money on a lift.