Warning Hellfrauds Bottle Jack
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:05 am
Got a puncture today, in the rain, got my nice new bottle jack out that I purchased to save carrying a trolley jack around only to find it would be more use a doorstop because it was too tall to fit under the chassis or any jackable suspension bits and to flippin short to jack the motor up high enough to get the wheel off the ground to change it. 
Had to call the AA just too jack the car up and had a 45 minute wait listening to the rain pour down on the roof and talking to the misses !!! 
Still all is not lost, because it was sitting at an odd angle, because of the flat, it made the water leak on the windscreen obvious, it had been running along the rubber giving the impression water was seeping in through the rubber when in fact it is coming in the split screen split and then running along the rubber coming out further along.
Moral of the story, when you buy a new jack see if it is suitable for the job maybe even flattening one tyre just too make sure it flippin fits under the car before you need to use it. Could have been worse, it might have been dark as well.
Had to call the AA just too jack the car up and had a 45 minute wait listening to the rain pour down on the roof and talking to the misses !!! Still all is not lost, because it was sitting at an odd angle, because of the flat, it made the water leak on the windscreen obvious, it had been running along the rubber giving the impression water was seeping in through the rubber when in fact it is coming in the split screen split and then running along the rubber coming out further along.
Moral of the story, when you buy a new jack see if it is suitable for the job maybe even flattening one tyre just too make sure it flippin fits under the car before you need to use it. Could have been worse, it might have been dark as well.