Foolproof way to prevent scratches...

Awesome! Good looking setup. Where did you get it from?

 

Glad to hear your going with the high lift kit. Part of the advantage to what you have there is being able to pull another car underneath which you cannot currently do. I myself am in the market for a drive on, how much was it all said and done?

 

So, what's your response now if someone asks if you can "give them a lift"?

Great idea and is the way to go.

Although I think my motto "No kids, no pets" is better.

Then no bikes, no scrathches, and more cars!

 

I would recommend removing the manual lock on the overhead door. I had someone playing with the manual lock on my garage door, and they left it locked. Then when I went to use the electric openere, voila, racked steel!
BT

 

Just be careful, one of my close friends (and an active Fchatter) had his Fcar fall off his lift..

 

You need to have your garage door rails converted to the "ceiling hugger" type. That's what I did with mine and ity only cost about $250...that way you can raise and lower your garge door with the car up on the lift...

 

Looks nice. Nice install job!!

 

Hetek, Please excuse my paranoia, but I am a personal injury attorney and see kids and people injured in a variety of ways. Many people don’t consider the fact that their garage door is one of the heaviest moving objects in their home and disable many of the safety features such as the electric eye. If they want to assume the risk as adults that is up to them, but if there are small children in the home it is irresponsible. You have now installed a device that can potentially cause even greater harm than a garage door. It is also the type of device which may have been designed for more of a commercial environment where the presence of children would not be anticipated. I would recommend to anyone installing one of these devices in a home with small children that they install some type of child proof pin lock or bar that will act as a safety to stop the device from descending when unattended. I would also recommend a keyed control panel which prevents activation of the device, either up or down, without the use of a key kept in the adult’s possession. Hopefully, such safety devices came with the product.

The problem may not be as big of an issue to the family child, who has been taught to respect the device, but it may represent a hazard to one of their neighborhood friends who sees it as a big toy. (why, when I was a kid, I never blew up my best friend's house when we got into his dad’s gun powder, which he used for his shot gun shell loader, I’ll never know)

I now stand ready to be beaten up by the tort reformers who see my paranoia as representative of the decline of western civilization. That’s okay; I would rather save some kids from serious injury.

 

my kids get the cattle prod if they go in my garage. they have their own "garage", it's called the shed.

 

Hetek, it sounds like you've got a good plan to keep the kids from messing with it. (Wetpet, I have to admit that you're cattle prod approach does have its appeal, especially for that bratty neighbor kid)

Just as another note, I have handled garage door cases and have talked to a lot of experts and one of the other common injuries results from customers installing their own door and getting their arm or some other other appendage taken off when they improperly tried to install and tighten the springs. One case they told me about involved a surgeon who lost his hand as a result of trying to install a door himself. There is a lot of power in one of these wound springs. If you are unfamiliar with the installation of garage doors be careful if you intend to install the door yourself.

Maybe I should change my handle here from "Lloyd" to "Mom".

 

I installed my own door. you are right, winding up that spring was very scary.