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what a disaster. Lifting vettes can be tricky too.

LS6 Motor

Angled two post lifts are the only way to hit the lift points correctly. When I had my tires mounted on my chrome ZR-1 rims, they said flat out, "We can't, and won't, lift your car!"

No problem, I brought them the rims, and tires, then mounted them on the car myself. This is Dunn Tire here in Rochester, and these guys do nice work. They are the only ones I let do an alignment, and they have a Hunter Drive on machine with ramps that are on a very slight incline, so the front spoiler isn't even close to rubbing.

If I ever walked into a shop, and saw my car in that position, I would be in prison for a veeeeeery long time......

MYCoupe

That's the problem with most shops. They don't treat customer's cars like their own and they are not very good at following directions.

Vette Threat

I doesn't matter what other people do, if you care enough you'll be fine. I have lifted everything from Civics to Buses in the last 10 years and have not even come close to dropping one.

In alot of other lines of work you can screw up and be fine, but not in auto mechanics. One wrong mistake can easily get people injured bad or even killed.

silver84

please enlighten me.

what is the special difficulty with,
Elise
'vette
or similiar?

'04 Z06 Rocket

leadfoot4

The last time I was in a Dunn Tire store, it was the store in Penfield, at the Bay Rd./Empire Blvd. intersection. As I was waiting to talk to the counter guy about some snow tires, I happened to glance into the shop area.

Two "minimum wage" jackasses were taking the tires and rims off a mini van, and as the removed them, they were bouncing them back and forth at each other. At one point, they almost hit another car with one of the wheel/tires. I turned and walked out.......

I have my tires/alignment done at Craig Autometrics on Winthrop St. downtown, in the former Hallman Chevrolet body shop. All the latest Hunter stuff.

2000R

Try aircrfaft maintance, still don't like jacking the 180k plane on just 3 jacks.

coupeguy2001

I agree but try one that's worth $30 million

DINO84

Sometimes for $10.00 an hour you get what you pay for.

ein Tier

If you read the thread, the Elise has some very specific jacking points, much like the Corvette does.

The Elise is a little trickier, because some of these points are hidden behind access panels (so they can keep that flat undertray for aerodynamics) and the points you use to jack half the car up are different from the ones you need to use on a lift.

The tire guys read half the manual, found the points for lifting half the car, then lifted it using those points. When they pulled the front tire off, the car became unbalenced and fell off the rack.

'04 Z06 Rocket

OK, while I would want a new car too, and I would be very PISSED to see my car like that........
What makes this a TOTALED CAR? I've seen worse 5mph wrecks at a red light than this!

chuck1026

Been on here a few times. You can plan all you want... but you will never truely be in control of anything - sh*t happens