Car Garage Lifts

[xto]

Hi All,

Can anyone help; i'm on the look out for a car lifting system, (not for working on the underside) that is designed for residential houses. But I also need the system to have a sliding mechanism that moves the car once lowered about 4 to 5 meters.

Can anyone recommend or guide me on this?

xto

[thinfourth2]

I have no idea what you are talking about

Give a bit more info

[MX7]

A fork lift?

I'm not sure what you're looking for.

[hman]

you need to speak to a car stacker company, theres a few around which do specialist systems like this - one which springs to mind is a plate which you drive onto and your car is taken underground, a plate then slides over teh top which allows another car to be parked on top!

[xto]

As they say a picture is a thousand words, see my poor go at the system.

Basically, need a lifting system that will lower the car on a tray into the basement, which once lowered will then slide horizontally, say 4 o5 5 meters allowing me to clear some columns.

1) Is the car on the lifting tray at ground level
2) is the car on the tray once lowered into the basement




xto

Edited by xto on Friday 26th August 11:23

[xto]

hman said:

you need to speak to a car stacker company, theres a few around which do specialist systems like this - one which springs to mind is a plate which you drive onto and your car is taken underground, a plate then slides over teh top which allows another car to be parked on top!

EXCATYLY!!!!!!!!!!

[MX7]

Theres a guy on here who has a very impressive lift on his drive. I think he's got a video on Youtube.

[thinfourth2]

xto said:

As they say a picture is a thousand words, see my poor go at the system.

Basically, need a lifting system that will lower the car on a tray into the basement, which once lowered will then slide horizontally, say 4 o5 5 meters allowing me to clear some columns.

1) Is the car on the lifting tray at ground level
2) is the car on the tray once lowered into the basement




xto

Edited by xto on Friday 26th August 11:23

Ah thats much clearer

No idea about them but make sure it plays the thunderbirds tune while working otherwise it isn't cool

[mrmr96]

MX7 said:

Theres a guy on here who has a very impressive lift on his drive. I think he's got a video on Youtube.

This one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1-lEOmcjU

[hman]

Wohr or Klaus are the ones I worked with- I installed fire protection on them as they were installed below apartments etc.

[MX7]

mrmr96 said:

MX7 said:

Theres a guy on here who has a very impressive lift on his drive. I think he's got a video on Youtube.

This one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1-lEOmcjU

That's the one. Perhaps the people who made that could do it.

[Deva Link]

mrmr96 said:

This one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1-lEOmcjU

Just wow!

[Deva Link]

This one goes forward & back - maybe there's a sideways version?

http://www.totalliftingsolutions.co.uk/products/fl...

[mrmr96]

Deva Link said:

This one goes forward & back - maybe there's a sideways version?

http://www.totalliftingsolutions.co.uk/products/fl...

Some impressive gear there. Never knew this stuff existed, it's another world!

[xto]

The key is the sliding action, as the up down lift is, I think the easy part.

Edited by xto on Friday 26th August 13:04

[Deva Link]

xto said:

The key is the sliding action, as the up down lift is, I think the easy part.

The one I posted slides. Bit of a long shot, but have you got space to position the lift (and be able to get a car on to it) so the sliding action you need could be backwards or forwards, rather than sideways?

Edited by Deva Link on Friday 26th August 17:36

[rob.e]

A friend has some similar issues with his apartment in Monaco. Their solution was to have the lift installed with a rotating platform, so once the car has lowered it rotates 90 degrees so you can drive off.

Very, very cool..

[xto]

Deva Link said:

The one I posted slides. Bit of a long shot, but have you got space to position the lift (and be able to get a car on to it) so the sliding action you need could be backwards or forwards, rather than sideways?

Edited by Deva Link on Friday 26th August 17:36

Nope, it's a badly designed basement. The car will need to slid horizontally onto the lift, as I can not drive it forward or backwards directly on the lift. ( if some ppl are interested I could post pics of the problematic basement)

[tercelgold]

Do you have more cars that need to be parked underground?, why the need to move it again?

If so anyone could do it, but it would cost huge amounts removing the earth to make a space.

[xto]

tercelgold said:

Do you have more cars that need to be parked underground?, why the need to move it again?

If so anyone could do it, but it would cost huge amounts removing the earth to make a space.

Needs to move/ slide due to not having the space to manoeuvre the car immediately off the lift. There will be 4cars in total(currently)

The removal works costs will be ok. Easier option would be to remove and move a supporting colum but no building engineer is willing to take on the job. So am forced to look at the car lift method