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Reason, You'd have to use the lift for more than oil changes for it to be worthwhile... a basic scissor lift is in 3k+ territory... that's a lot of oil changes :)

But as KD_B says you can use it to work on your car a lot easier. You go KD_B by the way! I graduated mechanical engineering but get no joy from working on my car unfortunately.
 
<em>Trooper, Palm Springs? Would you transfer out there? If not, how could you live with the commute?





</em>PS is only a 2 hour drive from where I work, no I wouldn't commute...I would crash with friends here in LA on work days. My schedule is 3 on, 4 off....so it's doable.





Don't get me wrong, I would love to buy a home here...but I'm picky and want something nice. This translates into something 750K and higher here, 450K there. Also, I plan on retiring in 10 years and will spend 6 months in CA and 6 months in CT....so I figure if I buy now, I'll have a good bit of the mortgage paid off by then. Don't think I could buy in OC or LA and keep that promise to myself. But who knows !
 
<p>For you lift enthusiasts, they are fairly affordable. One of the common uses, if you have the clearance, is to park one car on the lift and drive another under it. You don't need to modify the garage, as long as it's tall enough.</p>
 
<p>NEwtoOC, </p>

<p>3 thousands is alot of oil changes, I agree. But imagine the medical bills if my car drops on me. Hahaha!</p>
 
<p>Does it work without a sunken pit ? Builders never went there due to liability. Imagine a builder installed it as an option and 5 years later accident did happen and could a homeowner sue the builder for not implementing a safety default feature. Is the builder liable for mechanical failure since the builder specified it. What if older sister Katy pushed the button and the lift crushed her little brother playing in the garage. 2 children die per day in California from car backing out of a garage. Idea is neat and save land. It function just like a tandem garage where one has to always back out the first car and park it out of the way inorder to access the second car. Sound like a complicated logistic. Is it worth it to just ease the oil change?</p>
 
<p>Graphrix, Effie, - See why I asked if it would be wierd to have a lift. Some folks think it has something to do with practicality.</p>

<p>For those of us who are a bit unhinged, having a lift in the garage is like having a home theater for some folks. They don't think about how much they wil save on movie tickets when they are picking audio equipment.</p>
 
<p><a href="http://www.rotarylift.com/">http://www.rotarylift.com/</a></p>

<p><img alt="" src="http://www.rotarylift.com/Products/photoGallery/PMU1S.JPG" /></p>

<p>Problem is, it requires adaquate footing and if you're in Irvine you've already got a post tensioned concrete slab so this one is OUT. </p>

<p>Low rise lifts are kind of useless for a home user. IMO so are 4 post lifts that you drive on. Then again, most IHBr's aren't into this:<img alt="" src="http://www.timadamsphotography.com/0753%20Mustang%20turn%206.jpg" /></p>
 
<p><strong><em>Even if you could buy it now for the 160 GRM would you not think that you could get it cheaper if you waited.</em></strong></p>

<p>Point taken, but even if I thought it would, at a GRM of 160, I'd buy it anyway. 160 is cheap enough. But lets be clear - this is a lifestyle choice wrapped around a financial decision. And it's hard (for my wife to get the garden she wants me to set up shop so I can prep for laying waste to fossel fuels on weekends) without owning it. We are former owners (before we moved to SoCal) and we miss gardening and hurting ourselves in the garage. I'm just not willing to pay triple of rent to do it.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the pic of the 'lift.'</p>

<p>My next house? I'ld like a small house preferably 1600 sq. ft. with front and back yards. I like to have a mature tree in the front yard so I can enjoy the shades during hot summer days. Also, I like the long driveway that goes all the way to the back whereby the garage is a separate structure. </p>

<p>I really miss the house that I grew up in when I was a kid. The neighborhood was small enough where you can just run over to your friends' house during summer and watch "The million dollar man"....</p>

<p>Unfortunately, these types of homes are mostly in bad neighborhoods now. Bummer.</p>

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Eh, my lift would be used for way, way, way... more than oil changes. In fact, I need to install new control arms, install new tranny mounts, replace the power steering hoses, and gawd knows what else I would want to tinker with if I had a lift. It sure as hell would have made changing the o2 sensors a lot easier. That was a biatch.
 
SoCalGal - "But when", we are looking for and not just looking at. My wife wants a craft room with lost of cubbys, small drawers, wrapping paper wall ...
 
<p>Awgee,</p>

<p>Cubbies and home management center you will find them usually in much bigger homes and expensive homes. I am seeing many of these special features are being incorporated into first time buyers' homes developed by Cal Pac. I really like these features like a desk under the stairs and a mud room with lots of cubbie storage, wall hooks and bench with seat to put my shoes on and the seat could be lifted for shoe storage with a separate compartment for my dirty socks. </p>
 
<p>I like the homes Reason described but a private long driveway to a garage at the back of the house would take up too much land. In todays land residual equation it will never fly. Would the consumers compromise and share the long drive between 2 neighbors as long the separate private garages are detached at the back of the homes? Or may be the detached garages are attached like a duplex at the back to save the wasted land between the separate garages as long the homes are completely detached ? What about a studio above the garage but attached to your neighbors since the garages are attached down below?</p>
 
In what ways are you guys interested in cars that you want a lift? Build prep race cars? Restore cars? general maintainence? When I was looking at place in Estancia in Tustin Ranch, I saw a spec miata owner. It would be fun living next to him, haha.



My friend wants a tandem garage that would allow him to drive cars through his house in to his backyard, haha.



Right now Id like to get in to a 2 bedroom condo, 2 car attached garage, 2.5 bathrooms, an open floorplan in Irvine or Tustin Ranch. Planning to stay there for about 10 years or so before upgrading to an SFR
 
Spec Miatas are cute, and fun to drive, but have very little power and require next to no maintence. I bet he doesn't have as many tools as you'd think.



Most racers don't have very many tools by automotive technician standards, but they have a slug more than the average homeowner.



I need about 500 square feet of garage space for vehicle storage/parts storage/prep area w/ RV parking, so the newer Irvine neighborhoods are out. Even better would be 700 feet of garage and RV parking with a place to put the trailer.
 
What type of car do you trailer? For racing?



A large garage would be nice, but I just crew. The expenses of racing or prepping is not reasonable right now for me.
 
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