You don't seem to understand. That is the only kind of lift you will find it 95% of the shops you go to. Trucks get picked up every minute just like in the picture.that is just how it's done in the real world.
YOU don't seem to understand. The liability is enormous. Failure to use appropriate jack points--as specified by the vehicle manufacturer AND as echoed by the manufacturer of the lift--opens the shop to vehicle damage, liability lawsuits as well as
employee injury/death.
You don't have the right lift...DO NOT LIFT the friggin' vehicle.
Any "real" shop in the business of fixing pickups that can't properly lift an ordinary pickup must have a total ***** for a manager/owner/equipment purchaser. I understand that a Ferrari dealership may not have pickups as a high priority.
I would love to hear the conversation between the shop owner and his insurance company (
and OSHA) when the shop owner has to admit that a vehicle folded-up and killed his employee because the shop habitually fails to use proper, published procedure on a safety-critical item like this. And the shop doesn't have appropriate equipment for the job. There's a term for that:
Criminal Negligence. And people get fined, maybe go to prison for it.
THERE.
IS.
NO.
EXCUSE.
for hanging the bed of the pickup off the lift.
And the reason is right there in the first post.
What hasn't been discussed--because it isn't directly relevant to the issue in the first post--is how hanging that much weight off the back of the lift could upset the stability of the lift itself. Add some weight in the bed, some exceptionally-careless positioning of the rear arms, and the rear arms are carrying most of the vehicle weight, leading to substandard concrete failing at the bolted junction for the lift base. The whole lift goes over backward. The load the lift is carrying needs to be reasonably balanced within the design limits of the lift; and it needs to be anchored properly in "strong" concrete.
