Aston Martin Jacking Pads "Group Buy" Anyone interested?

[Jibberingloon]

http://www.velocityap.com/Aston-Martin-Jack-Pad-Ad...

Thinking about ordering a set as it will prevent any damage to the jacking area when swapping wheels over and doing the brakes etc.

Anyone else want to jump on board with this to split the shipping?

$180, so if that in £ should be about £115-120

[mikey k]

I bought 6 ice hockey pucks for £30.

[ds2000]

Nice idea but way over priced. I could make them for way less than that. I bet Tony could do a good job on these but for most.... hockey pucks win

[Impasse]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skate-Hut-Ice-Hockey-Puck/...

[Jibberingloon]

Hockey Puck FTW

Will order some of those then.

You have saved me a few ££

Thanks

[Johnny42]

At the bottom of Impasse's Amazon link, I got a 'Frequently bought together'. It showed me the pucks and some black triangular items, I wondered what these were used for in hockey. Turns out they were Draper wheel chocks!

[steveatesh]

Johnny42 said:

At the bottom of Impasse's Amazon link, I got a 'Frequently bought together'. It showed me the pucks and some black triangular items, I wondered what these were used for in hockey. Turns out they were Draper wheel chocks!

If you keep following the frequently bought with links, eventually you will buy the entire Amazon product line. Probably.

[V8 Animal]

A genuine ice hockey player enquires about 4 of these, would you like a trolley jack too lol

[Zuman]

I would also love a set of those aluminium jack pads, but there is a limit to the prices I can justify. The vendor is very credible and I'm sure he's not making a lot of money on them, but they're still expensive.
Hockey pucks don't quite do it by themselves because they don't fit in the cutout without intruding on bits you might want to remove, so I ordered some aluminium bar stock pre-cut to the size of my DB9's cutout and with enough height to clear the sill (different in the front and back). I'm then going to epoxy those to hockey pucks. If I get ambitious, I might screw in some bolts that fit in the chassis holes and then cut the heads off the bolts. In $US, the cost will be less than $10 per finished pad.

[Stuart Dickinson]

mikey k said:

I bought 6 ice hockey pucks for £30.

I spend most of my time in Canada, I could probably organize a group buy on a bag of hockey pucks. We have the market cornered

[yourtheguy]

Just had a look at their other stuff, they most defiantly are having a laugh with prices, £119+vat for a set of rack limiters basically a short bit of tube

[Jibberingloon]

I have 6 hockey pucks arriving tomorrow, so will see what I can come up with before I make my mind up on the expensive ones!

Might cut 1 down to make the right shape and then drill and screw another one to it.....

[Stuart Dickinson]

yourtheguy said:

Just had a look at their other stuff, they most defiantly are having a laugh with prices, £119+vat for a set of rack limiters basically a short bit of tube

Sometimes doing very low run specialist parts is not cost-effective but we offer them anyway. Some people like them, some don't. We've sold lots of jack pads, some people appreciate the machining and design work and I think it isn't purely about functionality it is about nice parts for nice cars. They were actually made at a customer's request! I'm guessing you're not in the market for bump stops anyway, they are really for race & track day cars.

On the other hand, we have some products which are priced a lot better than our competition

[mjk1]

My solution is to mill a slot in the side of a hockey puck. The slot then fits over the underbody cover. This allows the puck to sit flush to the aluminium jacking point and also holds the puck in position prior to the jack or lift being put in place.



Edited to show a picture the right way up!

Edited by mjk1 on Sunday 1st March 07:48

[dig123]

Hi do you have a photo of the slot you cut into the puck? I could do with making some for my car.

[mjk1]

Yes here they are. The front ones require a straight slot, the rears a 90 degree slot is all you need to go over the corner of the sill that sticks out into the jacking zone.

[J12MOC]

mjk1 said:

My solution is to mill a slot in the side of a hockey puck. The slot then fits over the underbody cover. This allows the puck to sit flush to the aluminium jacking point and also holds the puck in place prior to the jack or lift being put in place.

Edited by mjk1 on Saturday 28th February 17:53

Now that is a good idea!

[mjk1]

J12MOC said:

Now that is a good idea!

Thanks J12MOC, total cost less than a tenner for 4 pucks and a couple of hours design and make. The milled aluminium blocks look good but it's an over engineered solution, reflected in the price of $360 + VAT!

[Moviestar]

Did any body contact this Guy to do some of the Jacking Pads.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/Trolley-Jacking-Pads?_t...

Notice he is now doing ones for Tesla and Porsche so I'm sure the Aston Martin ones will not be a problem

[huntsen]

At those prices, it's a no-brainer.
I've dropped cav.mar1 a message to ask if he'll do sets of 2007 V8V jacking pads, and alerting him to the dialogue here.