Fallen Ford

[lauriet1]

I heard today - A local Ford Dealer put a NYS Trooper's Brand New Ford Pickup up on a two piston lift.  When they went to lower it, only one piston of the lift came down.....You guessed it...truck fell sideways off the lift and had to be dragged out of the service bay on it's side.  Boy, Wouldn't want to be the Service Tech that had to call with that news.... :but:

[AU Chevy]

My tire man, who dad writes the insurance for, had a fullsize truck packed with quickrete, potting soil, and mulch come in for tires.  When they lifted it, single piston floor lift, the rear drooped down quite a bit.  I forgot how much it cost to fix the guys frame.  The owner of the store felt stupid, cause he watched his workers do it.

[CityTruck]

It's not just a Ford thing.  I was at a Chevy dealership here in Dallas a few years ago getting my 95 serviced and I watched them drop a brand new white extended cab silverado sideways off of a lift.  Thank goodness nobody was under it, but the truck was messed up pretty bad.  The owner was furious.

[pacodiablo]

that really has to suck to have that happen.  if my dealer did that i would never let them forget

[doverarjim]

Years ago in 1979 I think, as I went thru El Paso Tx I watched a brand new Bronco fall off a rail road car it was on the top level before they started enclosing the rail cars, but the wild thing is when I got to my brothers in Abiliene TX on of his buddys was crying in his beer because the Ford dealer had just called him and told him that he would need to wait another 6 to 8 weeks because of a accident with his new Bronco!!!!  He then called the dealer back and told him that he wanted to go see the wrecked truck, so I got back into another car and rode back 400 miles from where I had just come to find out his truck was already gone, but we did have some fun drowning our troubles in Mexico before we drove back home.

[gmonkey]

Forgive my ignorance, but I have used 2-post and 4-post lifts, and how in the bloody heck do you not notice that a 5000 pound vehicle is coming down unevenly??

 

We used to have a problem with the latch release on our 4-post lifts, but you could definitely see one corner hanging up.  All you had to do is go yell for another tech to come tap it with a hammer while you hold the release and you are good to go..

 

Unless a 2-piston lift is different from a 2-post lift. :0

[silverado man]

I think that the 2 piston lift is the old hydrolic lifts, where there was the 2 pistone in the floor.

[CMNTMXR81]

This isn't the Tech's fault unless he knowingly knew he had a lift problem.  Otherwise it's the lift, lift manufacturer, or lift maintanancers fault.

 

We had this happen to a brand new Suburban.  The customer had bought it the day before and had brought it back to have something done aftermarket that he had paid for when he bought it.  The Technician was in the process of installing whatever it was, had to go into parts to get something and all the sudden we all heard this HUGE crash!  Turns out, the lift bars suffered from metal fatigue on the drivers side of the lift and dumped the 'Burban on it's side.  Had it been less than a minute sooner, that Technician would've been under it.  Needless to say he was a bit shaken.

 

The dealer ended up buying the customer a new Suburban (from insurance of course) as there was no recourse against the lift manufacturer or the company who maintianed them.  It was simple metal fatigue that had no onset signs.

[gmonkey]

I think that the 2 piston lift is the old hydrolic lifts, where there was the 2 pistone in the floor.

 

 

DUH!!  Now I remember that type of lift..   They had one at the community college I went to but the instructor never let us use it.  I guess now I know why   :0

 

Sadly, the auto repair program there is gonna get cut back or eliminated altogether due to lack of students.. ???