These will speed up the process during maintenance like changing tires, brakes pads and rotors, oil, and are vital for larger jobs like suspension work. If you want to get any work done on your vehicle, a floor jack is a must have. When we finally upgraded to a real service jack (our Editor’s Pick), it immediately became one of the best tools we ever owned. They’re cumbersome, slow, inconvenient, and sometimes dangerous. We struggled along for years using either cheap car jacks, or even the scissor jacks that come with most cars, and it was always the worst part of getting a vehicle off the ground. Impacts, air ratchets, it’s those tools that get the glamour and end up in your toolbox first. But when most projects seem to require buying or borrowing a new specialty tool, a new, high-quality car jack can be low on the list. If you were lucky, maybe your parents or a friend had one of the best floor jacks, and you got to use it for your automotive work.
Most of us don’t start out working on cars in a well-equipped garage.
