Trolley jack advice

[heathrobinson]

Can anyone recommend me a decent trolley jack? To be used under capris, and landys, so needs to be fairly low, fairly long, and not too spendy.
Cheers

[86corolla]

Clarke and draper stuff is fairly decent for the price..
what I do is buy 2 or 3 or the cheap silverline made jacks at about £20 a piece
when they break chuck them away ..

[envoycdx]

I paid something like £86 for my big jack and so far I am up to year 2. My halfords jacks are about 8 or 9 years old and where reasonably priced at the time.
Look out for bargins, but make sure you buy something you can get replacement bits for, nothing worse than having to bin something for the sake of an oddball seal

[86corolla]

Feb 8, 2015 16:15:23 GMT envoycdx said:

I paid something like £86 for my big jack and so far I am up to year 2. My halfords jacks are about 8 or 9 years old and where reasonably priced at the time.
Look out for bargins, but make sure you buy something you can get replacement bits for, nothing worse than having to bin something for the sake of an oddball seal

Not always tru about parts I had a Clarke jack for a good few years and when one of the seals went I tried getting a rebuild kit..and no such luck.non available..Clarke didn't stock..non on the net.apart from one from the USA with silly shipping cost...In the end took it to a hydraulics specialist and they rebuilt it....
If you do buy a new named brand jack order a rebuild kit at the same time while there still being made and keep it somewhere safe then when the time comes

[heathrobinson]

Good advice, then it's just a matter of not loosing the spare seals!

[envoycdx]

Feb 8, 2015 17:49:37 GMT 86corolla said:

Feb 8, 2015 16:15:23 GMT envoycdx said:

I paid something like £86 for my big jack and so far I am up to year 2. My halfords jacks are about 8 or 9 years old and where reasonably priced at the time.
Look out for bargins, but make sure you buy something you can get replacement bits for, nothing worse than having to bin something for the sake of an oddball seal

Not always tru about parts I had a Clarke jack for a good few years and when one of the seals went I tried getting a rebuild kit..and no such luck.non available..Clarke didn't stock..non on the net.apart from one from the USA with silly shipping cost...In the end took it to a hydraulics specialist and they rebuilt it....
If you do buy a new named brand jack order a rebuild kit at the same time while there still being made and keep it somewhere safe then when the time comes

I see what you mean there - that would be rather annoying. Think I will order my spare seal kit up this week now you've mentioned it.

[86corolla]

Feb 8, 2015 18:17:21 GMT envoycdx said:

Feb 8, 2015 17:49:37 GMT 86corolla said:

Not always tru about parts I had a Clarke jack for a good few years and when one of the seals went I tried getting a rebuild kit..and no such luck.non available..Clarke didn't stock..non on the net.apart from one from the USA with silly shipping cost...In the end took it to a hydraulics specialist and they rebuilt it....
If you do buy a new named brand jack order a rebuild kit at the same time while there still being made and keep it somewhere safe then when the time comes

I see what you mean there - that would be rather annoying. Think I will order my spare seal kit up this week now you've mentioned it.

I would mate best to have it and not need it than to need it and not be able to get one

[envoycdx]

Feb 8, 2015 18:22:02 GMT 86corolla said:

Feb 8, 2015 18:17:21 GMT envoycdx said:

I see what you mean there - that would be rather annoying. Think I will order my spare seal kit up this week now you've mentioned it.

I would mate best to have it and not need it than to need it and not be able to get one

Tell me about it.