ANCHOR BOLTS
This lift has been in the design and testing phase for over two years now. The prototype units have never been bolted down, even during testing with loads exceeding max capacity. We would however suggest installing a few anchors though (just as many do on their four post lifts) just to keep the lift in place during entry/exit and to keep components squared up.
THE MARKET
If you have a pole barn, you likely don't fit the Autostacker demographic. If you still do your own oil changes, swap over your seasonal tires, or occasionally change your blinker fluid, you are probably not an Autostacker buyer. If you need side access to get underneath your car, nope, stick with a BendPak four post lift. Key buyers will be urbanites who live in crammed cities, in cramped houses, who use their garage space for parking and storing cars - in cities with exorbitant parking-storage fees. Houses are shrinking and so are garages, so space saving design will play an important role.
A BendPak customer a few years back was Bryan Cranston, aka Walter White. Full story about his amazing eco house here. ..https://www.dwell.com/article/actor-bryan-cranstons-green-beach-house-renovation-8fd90ad9. Not sure a four-post muffler rack would have fit the design elements, especially for the diminutive space which is all too common in constrained beachfront properties nowadays. Also, not quite contemporary enough for his repurposed Love Shack. Had he known about this new model at the time, it would have been the one he chose instead of our PL-7000XR.
A modest 1/1000 of this market could be in play https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/ plus the many commercial prospects. And that’s just in the USA.
HIDDEN BENEFIT
I am one who enjoys nice things, especially cars. Unfortunately my car lair is shared with bicycles, scooters, and trash cans navigated by teens, grandkids and other non-car-worshipper heathens. A single scratch or ding can cost hundreds to correct if paint work is involved. One of my early houses featured a three car garage – a double wide bay and a single wide. Know what I did with the single bay? I chain-linked the whole damn area up (along with a full-height gate that lined up perfectly with my car door) to keep riffraff away from my #$@&%*! car. It worked like a dream. The Autostacker shrouds your car from bicycle bars and Hello Kitty guitars.
This lift has been in the design and testing phase for over two years now. The prototype units have never been bolted down, even during testing with loads exceeding max capacity. We would however suggest installing a few anchors though (just as many do on their four post lifts) just to keep the lift in place during entry/exit and to keep components squared up.
THE MARKET
If you have a pole barn, you likely don't fit the Autostacker demographic. If you still do your own oil changes, swap over your seasonal tires, or occasionally change your blinker fluid, you are probably not an Autostacker buyer. If you need side access to get underneath your car, nope, stick with a BendPak four post lift. Key buyers will be urbanites who live in crammed cities, in cramped houses, who use their garage space for parking and storing cars - in cities with exorbitant parking-storage fees. Houses are shrinking and so are garages, so space saving design will play an important role.
A BendPak customer a few years back was Bryan Cranston, aka Walter White. Full story about his amazing eco house here. ..https://www.dwell.com/article/actor-bryan-cranstons-green-beach-house-renovation-8fd90ad9. Not sure a four-post muffler rack would have fit the design elements, especially for the diminutive space which is all too common in constrained beachfront properties nowadays. Also, not quite contemporary enough for his repurposed Love Shack. Had he known about this new model at the time, it would have been the one he chose instead of our PL-7000XR.
A modest 1/1000 of this market could be in play https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/ plus the many commercial prospects. And that’s just in the USA.
HIDDEN BENEFIT
I am one who enjoys nice things, especially cars. Unfortunately my car lair is shared with bicycles, scooters, and trash cans navigated by teens, grandkids and other non-car-worshipper heathens. A single scratch or ding can cost hundreds to correct if paint work is involved. One of my early houses featured a three car garage – a double wide bay and a single wide. Know what I did with the single bay? I chain-linked the whole damn area up (along with a full-height gate that lined up perfectly with my car door) to keep riffraff away from my #$@&%*! car. It worked like a dream. The Autostacker shrouds your car from bicycle bars and Hello Kitty guitars.
