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    Modifying advantage XLT lift

    When the car is perfectly centered, the outer wall of the rubber tire is flush with the outside of the runway, while the actual wheel has about 1 to 2 inches to spare on either the driver's side or passenger side of the vehicle. It means I have to perfectly center the car every time I drive...
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    Modifying advantage XLT lift

    Yeah, I'm having the same problem, and I think I need to move the non-power side as well outward, as right now my car tires are barely hanging on. I am not looking forward to drilling 8 holes through that thick steel, I have no clue as how to make sure all of the 8-holes will be in perfect...
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    Minimum width for a 1-car stall with lift?

    14 feet wide, 22 feet deep, 16 feet height, 9-foot wide door, lift posts are 9 feet wide It would have been nice to go to 15 or 16 feet wide, however, I thought that once I get close to 18-feet in width, then it makes sense to just build a 2-car wide garage and I didn't need that. The height...
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    What do you wish you would have done differently when you built/fixed up your garage?

    Wish I would have asked for a garage door "apron" or "lip", so that the section of concrete that the garage door sits on is a quarter-inch lower than the rest of the concrete garage floor, rain water was just sliding under the garage door's rubber seal. The original garage was built with an...
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    Working on a car with a 12x24 garage?

    12 x 24 is 288 square feet, that is big My dimensions are almost identical to yours, I have a 13 wide x 23 deep (300 square foot) garage and keep 2 cars in it, riding mower with bagging unit, push mower, snowblower, generator, wet/dry vac, tool cart, and bicycle in it. As you see, every item...
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