Powerbuilt 2 Ton UniJack Combination Hydraulic Bottle Jack / Jackstand in 1 Unit, Compact, Portable, Wide Base, for Unibody Sedans, CUVs, SUVs, Cars, - 620470

I bought these because I need to work on the flex plate of my driveshaft, which will require removing the entire shaft. My vehicle doesn't have any places to set jacks or stands other than these square blocks underneath next to each tire. Therefore, I wouldn't really be able to jack it up and then also place it on stands. This product eliminates that issue, BUT for my vehicle, it's about 1 inch below the height of this jack, which means it won't work for me outright. However, I can use my ramps in the front, which will raise the backside enough to slide these into place, so no issues at all. These are a well engineered product that I will feel safe trusting to keep my car steady while working underneath. Just make sure to check your height profiles because these do sit fairly high from the start.

My vehicle ( Ford transit connect van) sits low to the ground making it almost impossible to do an oil change myself. I use these to jack up the front end of my vehicle high I enough for me to get under there. Because my vehicle is so low, I have to drive forward onto two small sections of two by fours I made just for this purpose. This raises the front end up so that these jacks will fit underneath. They’re about half an inch too tall otherwise but once they’re under there and locked in place, they work very well and feel very safe. I was able to do an oil change in about 20 minutes and saved myself all that waiting and over $100 and never really knowing for sure if they actually changed the filter. These things will pay for themselves in no time they are well made and a good price. They’re small and easy to store away when not in use. If I had 2 more, I could lift the entire vehicle off the ground safely and easily. Now that I have them, I’ll be safely changing oil and doing other repairs on all my vehicles .

I bought this to make servicing the bearings on our travel trailer easier. The jack fits nicely under the axle and the cradle fits between the U bolts that hold the axle to the trailer. Jacking the trailer up worked as advertised. However, letting the jack back down was problematic. It would not retract all the way down without significant force. It was difficult to remove it from under the axle because of this. After inspecting the jack I found that the screw which holds the bottle jack to the jack stand was not tight. I tighten it up and loosed the set screw that secures the cradle to the bottle jack and realigned the parts. I left the set screw slightly loose (not over tight). Now the piston on the bottle jack retracts easily with very little force. A little better quality control would have caught this problem.

Using my old multi-jointed knuckle-busting emergency scissor jack was difficult, awkward, flimsy, wobbly, unstable, and unsafe hand-cranking my 2 Ton beast of a car up in the air to replace a flat tire. This gem of a product (like 'why didn't I think of that') effortlessly and securely hoisted that massive weight with a few easy cranks. Built-in jack-stand held locked in place by simply inserting a pin while I safely worked on removing wheel fixing a flat using my 4-way tire lug (also an absolute must-have). Much, much more stable platform on pavement, dirt and gravel especially on the small inclines of a roadway. Totally different experience. BUT,.... **height and clearance** are an issue so 4.99 stars. Worked brilliant with my Honda CRV, but jack too tall for my Chrysler minivan so get out your tape measure before you buy. Serious improvement.

Made a great addition to my 4 post lift. I have a runway jack for one end of a vehicle but wanted to be able to use the jack tray. They are great, Stable, Really like the fact that they lock in place so I don’t have to worry about them leaking down. Truck has been on lift for Two weeks without a worry.

Item arrived quickly and with all parts listed. I have not been able to test the full lift capacity yes but it works amazingly for lifting up our mowers for regular maintenance. The lift height is good but i would like for it to be higher and I understand that would require the jack itself to be bigger. the compactness of combining the jackstand and jack helps make it easy to remove from underneath and easier to store. Overall this is a high quality item and I have no doubts that it can lift and hold 2 tons.

This is designed to work in place of a jack stand, a bottle jack or a floor jack offering something in addition to each of those. Unfortunately, this has limitations in each of the applications where you would have used those especially for automotive purposes. Like the rest of automotive industry that hasn't standardized on jack points, this unit has its own saddle design that is neither like a jack stand nor a floor jack nor a bottle jack. So, none of the third party pad adapters you can get for any of those will work. The pad offered by Powerbuilt itself doesn't fit the 2ton (4000lb) version despite the representation it does. So, you land up improvising the usual hockey puck or wood block or whatever to interface which makes the minimum height of this unit even more of a problem and less sturdy. The bent angles on the "stand" saddle will dig into things in the car it shouldn't otherwise without spreading the load. For most small cars, the minimum height is too high for use on the sides as might be needed for a tire change or a brake job. So, one will need to initially lift the vehicle with something else (what one might be trying to avoid in the first place). And one would need to have the car still lifted and held by something else while coming down so this unit can be removed first. The length and movement of the pump arm is such that the lifting is very, very slow and painful even for a sub 3000lb car. On the positive side, it did work as a bottle jack with an attached stand and an automatic lock that works. It has had no leaks so far in a couple of days of use. Where it will come in the most useful is to be able to lift the car much higher than a typical jack included with the car, and not require both a floor jack and a stand for that use. This can be made much more useful by providing common adapters that fits its saddle design for typical lift points (although it will make it too expensive if sold separately). If they can design an adapter that would be able to lift from a lower height with the unit standing outside of the car skirt, that would make it very useful and brilliant in design. Many cars come with side holes for the factory included jacks. This would be enough for a tire change operation better than the supplied jack and be portable. In summary, this is a good thing to have in addition to the factory jack for peace of mind without having to carry a separate jack stand or rely on the factory jack alone. Or if you need to lift and hold at a much higher height. But note that the total lift is only about 5". So if you want the max 18" height, you will have to start with an initial 13" height. So it isn't exactly ideal for either of those use cases given the limitations above.

Heavy weight jack!! Haven’t used it yet but appears well build and solid.