Black Widow Ramps

[TheOilWizard]

I was browsing Slickdeals and came across these ramps. What marketing department thought "Black Widow" would be a good name for a device designed to keep you from being crushed.

https://slickdeals.net/f/17649309-s...pacity-24-free-shipping?src=SiteSearchV2Algo1

 

[wemay]

A gift from the wife...

 

[oldhp]

My 3 piece 2" x 6" nailed together ramps work great. Won't break or squish either.

 

[Rand]

Those black widows are only 3" ramps iirc.

 

[Oillover]

For some cars (including mine), this is all I'd need to do an oil change.
But still, I wouldn't purchase based on the price and name.

 

[Kestas]

What marketing department thought "Black Widow" would be a good name...

Probably the same people that marketed this product!

 

[Impatient]

Probably the same people that marketed this product! View attachment 232132

That bottle has my name on it (3rd,row back, 2nd from the right).

 

[2005jettatdi]

I have a Soylent bottle because my son thought I needed it. I was not impressed with the taste. The bottle goes well with my blinker fluid bottle.

 

[Tharber]

I have those and my only complaint is that they slide on my garage floor making it hard to drive the car up onto the ramps.

 

[NormanBuntz]

I have those and my only complaint is that they slide on my garage floor making it hard to drive the car up onto the ramps.

I use a piece of rubber carpet pad underneath to keep the Rhino ramps from moving.

 

[4WD]

A gift from the wife...

First thing I thought when I saw the title - she’s going to put a spider ramp on my side of the bed

 

[4WD]

I use a piece of rubber carpet pad underneath to keep the Rhino ramps from moving.

4WD works too!

 

[wemay]

I use a piece of rubber carpet pad underneath to keep the Rhino ramps from moving.

I do the exact same thing.

 

[Kestas]

My 3 piece 2" x 6" nailed together ramps work great. Won't break or squish either.

Same here. I use a stack of 2 by 12s, 4 high. I have four of them, so I can lift the car and keep it level when checking for transmission fluid level.

 

[StumblingElk]

Well, these polymers work well...until they don't.

I broke a pair of Rhino Ramps once. I was driving an AWD Vue up them and one of them split right in half. Front passenger side fell right on the ground as half of the now broken ramp went skidding along the garage floor.

Didn't give me that warm and fuzzy feeling. Wife now gets paranoid anytime I'm working under a car.

 

[MasterSolenoid]

I have the Black Widow (6 inch tall) ramps.
They work well enough for my Ford Escape.
Only problem I have is - you have to step on the gas-pedal enough to get up them and I worry about driving over the back side.
If I chicken out halfway up and let off on the gas, the car coasts backwards while in 'drive'.

I'm thinking of making some wooden-ramps out of (four) 2x12's with a high stop in back.
I'd make them long enough to insure a steady drive up.

 

[Lubener]

They should be called "widow maker" ramps.

 

[Bailey28]

I have and use a pair of the original Rhino ramps from the late 1990s when they first came out. They have been used hundreds of times. They are stored inside so they get minimal UV and weather exposure. The seem pretty tough but now I wonder at what point mine will split..

 

[CCI]

I was browsing Slickdeals and came across these ramps. What marketing department thought "Black Widow" would be a good name for a device designed to keep you from being crushed.

https://slickdeals.net/f/17649309-s...pacity-24-free-shipping?src=SiteSearchV2Algo1

Struck me exactly the same way.

I bought a set of the low ones for working on an import car and it was immediately obvious that if I used these on a gravel driveway they would live up to their name. I hot-melt glued them to a couple of pieces of plywood to distribute the load and they work great.

 

[4WD]

Struck me exactly the same way.

I bought a set of the low ones for working on an import car and it was immediately obvious that if I used these on a gravel driveway they would live up to their name. I hot-melt glued them to a couple of pieces of plywood to distribute the load and they work great.

Yep, when my son moved to the woods - got him some 3/4"x24"x48" to place under Rhino's - we just used 4WD to keep them from sliding ...