Comments on: Let Your Car’s Exhaust Be It’s Jack

By: Wally

Wally — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:27:33 +0000

This has been around for at least 20 years…

By: JT

JT — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:08:58 +0000

I’m still skeptical. I cannot believe there is enough exhaust pressure on my car to fill a big balloon under it enough to raise it off the ground. I think it would just kill the engine. Plus, what if you have dual or quad exhaust, point of least resistance anyone?

By: Emory

Emory — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:04:12 +0000

@Chad
…
O.O
*Looks as if you just punched a baby*

By: chad

chad — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:00:28 +0000

@DON

I watched someone use a fork lift to pick up their X5 for a flat …. this toxic ball of gas doesn’t seem like such a bad idea, I would also assume you’d leave the car running (kinda like those inflatable rides at the fair)… it’s not like you’re climbing under there to change your oil… and whoever is the first to try that rightly deserves to have their car dropped squarely on them.

By: moritz

moritz — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:41:03 +0000

in german television they tested this device it didnt work a thing!
the tube was always going off and the exhaust didnt over enough pressure.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:34:01 +0000

They have been in Australia for about 10 years. I remember seeing one on an outback survival show, along with how to kill and cook a Kangaroo. Yes, we kill and eat our national emblem.

@ DON: You only jack the car up enough to change a tyre, most cars, that doesn’t pass the centre of gravity or is up high enough to have to jump in.

Unless you have a Ford F650, which in that case, this would be useless.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:00:08 +0000

Looks insanely dangerous and a large waste of gas. How exactly do you turn the car off when the driver’s side is up on the air? Are you going to get inside a car that is balancing (unsecured) on a ball of toxic air?

Come on now.

By: chad

chad — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:29:14 +0000

@MARC

got ya beat…

I dropped my ex-girlfriends 5 series BMW on it’s rotor because it was uneven pavement AND I neglected to put on the e-brake… to top it all off, the car comes with road side assistance… which promptly took about 5 minutes to arrive once we called them… now that her car was sitting in a parking lot with a gouge in the back passenger door… on it’s bare rotor… and the jack was crammed in the wheel well… the road side technician looked at me like I had punched a baby.

talk about looking like an ass… I never forget the e-brake anymore though :D

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:56:21 +0000

I put my jack thru the floorboard of my old Camaro years ago. Whoops.

By: marc

marc — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:01:25 +0000

this is really a pretty neat idea, and something i could definitely have used when i almost punctured my friends gas tank trying to jack up her car on an uneven road surface. nothing makes you look like more of a jerk than the AAA guy coming out and inspecting your slanted jack jammed under a car firmly rooted on mother earth.