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04-21-2008, 01:48 PM
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Put balloon under your X
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04-21-2008, 01:56 PM
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no way am i doing that... fast forward to having hands under car and balloon breaks... no thanks.
This is a Darwin award waiting to happen.
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04-21-2008, 02:45 PM
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Which brings up the question...............
How many of you have ever jacked up an X5 using the stock jack?
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04-21-2008, 02:55 PM
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Once, doing the all-four-wheels, summer-to-winter-swap-out. Never again; I bought a good floor jack the next day. I'm passing on the balloon lift, too. 
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04-21-2008, 02:59 PM
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Floor jack is great at home but
what about on the road if your stuck in the middle of no-where. hahaha We took a drive down the coast (didn't drive the X though) and i got to thinking about that and wondered what would happen if one really needed to change a tire..............
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04-21-2008, 03:10 PM
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QwkAg,
Having done it, for that wheel swap, I know how to make the sucker work, if I ever have to use it again.
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04-21-2008, 03:31 PM
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Time to read the instructions
just to make sure the road side service knows where to do the jacking...... hahaha Feeling a little dumb right now....... 
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04-21-2008, 04:03 PM
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 That thing sucks!
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04-21-2008, 05:29 PM
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Hasn't anyone used or seen these before? Commonly used in the recovery (tow truck) field, often for off-road recovery. Fire and rescue departments use them for rescue, heavy equipment companies use them for assembly of equipment disassembled for road transport, marine salvage companies use them to right vessels stranded on the rocks by a falling tide. OK, so the K-mart models may be iffy, but a search on Google for Inflatable Air Bag Jack gave over 82,000 hits. Even Amazon sells them.
No, you shouldn't crawl underneath it, but that is true of any jack. And, the benefit of this style of jack is that on a soft surface it is stable, unlike just about any mechanical jack.
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04-21-2008, 06:02 PM
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I do it twice a year with a stock jack !!! Every year I get better and better!!! Plus it's a free work-out! 
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