Putting your car on ramps can damage your concrete??

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I would think that ramps would spread the car's weight over a greater area than the small contact patch of a tire.

It's never been an issue for me, but what would I know?

 

If the concrete hasn't broken up by driving on it, then it'll be fine for ramps. Just be very careful using them. Lots of youtube videos from mishaps.

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There’s an oil change link in my signature, a few thoughts, tips and tricks. (On a phone turn it landscape to see signatures)

also, gen 2 repair manual oil change instruction attached.

 

Expensive, but these race ramps will work on grass, dirt, asphalt or concrete without damaging the surface.

It would also be ideal for any garage with floor tile mats or epoxy finishes.

 

DIY solid lumber ramps will spread the load well.

that said, I almost exclusively use safety stands, which really stiletto-heel the concrete, never a problem. My garage slab is unreinforced as far as I know, and has seen better days.

 

Tell your friend you filled the tires with helium, therefore the car is light enough to not damage the concrete when on ramps. Or maybe make some ramps with 2x6 wood angle cut and screwed together. Now seriously, unless the driveway or garage was very thin or poorly mixed there is no problem. But I never liked ramps. First off they are a pain to pull onto, at least for me. Second, what happens when the tires need to come off for other work? Now you need a jack and stands also. So just get a jack and stands for everything.

 

You don't need ramps to change oil on a gen 2 prius. I never have. Just reach in from under the front bumper with your drain pan and wrenches for the drain plug and oil filter. Same as when I owned a first gen xB.

 

Those rhino ramps could not break concrete if they wanted to on the best day of their lives they're plastic I dropped mine on the concrete on the dirt on rocks whatever all the time have two sets here looking at them through the window there's no way those rhino ramps would be able to break concrete the ramps would probably break first so there's always that the dude your buddy talking about concrete testing He must be a pilot or something a desk jockey reads a lot does a little when he does something takes everything to the nth degree and spends bunches of money and does all kinds of things that probably aren't necessary but he would be right at home here I think Prius person for sure. Drop your ramps on your HOA neighborhood and yours driveway and roll that sucker up on it when you're doing an oil change you should only need to lift one side of the car I usually roll up the driver side on the ramp the other rhino ramp has been leaning against the buildings never been moved most of its life sitting here and the only reason I'm rolling the one side up is to get the oil pan under the car for the oil to run into If I had a real low profile pan my 3600 filter twist off my hand and my drain plug is easily undone with me just laying on the ground or the floor No need to get a ramp anywhere in sight for me but most will probably need it so.

 

Your crazy friend probably does everything himself and thinks everyones' an idiot. If you do "things by the book" and follow minimum specifications - the only way that can happen is in a cartoon. He should probably back-off on the shrooms....
I've been using the same plastic Rhino ramps for decades. Be careful; some ramps have too steep an angle for these low slung cars. I've got another set of metal ramps for larger, heavier cars, but mainly use my floor jack to lift those.
And, no I didn't test my driveway or garage floor - nor do I have cracks. I've got a couple of oil stains.

Hope this helps.....

 

lol, your friend is high on crack and probably loves to listen to conspiracy sources (most in America is right now)

I've been using those Rhino ramps on all my cars and suv/trucks without any issues on my garage and driveway. A Prius can't even dent that ramp.

 

You call it conspiracy sources, my generation calls it propaganda - It's quite sad that the American public at large can't tell the difference.
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I've been using ramps on concrete all my life=NO PROBLEMS

 

Well, to be entirely fair to this friend, there is a remote possibility that he was referring to garage floors which are coated. Those coatings tend to be pretty tough, but I can imagine metal jack stands deforming the coating enough that a permanent mark remains, especially if they are not entirely flat on the bottom. Seems unlikely though. More likely would be that dragging a jack stand across the surface could scratch it.

Otherwise hard to imagine how a jack stand would be worse for the concrete floor than the tire. The only way either is going to displace, or even crack, the concrete is if there was a broken pipe underneath which left a large void.

 

As some have commented unless your concrete condition is poor or is very thin your Prius is not going to break any concrete with any ramp. Check out on YouTube some videos on ramps and see their features and specs. I have four ramps so I can put the rears on them as well instead of jack stands if you so wish. There are some ramps with built-in hydraulic jacks as well..a new idea !

 

Just use the rhino ramps That's best for the Prius low to the ground business anyway they're made out of plastic they won't scratch your $10,000 garage floor and they certainly won't hurt the driveway out in the weather now metal can be pushed across the driveway or the garage floor by the car trying to get up on the ramps that is a fair thing to happen so it'll put a white line on your driveway and will scratch your fake epoxy floor quick fast in a hurry The rhino ramps will not If anything the rhino ramps if they slid on your epoxy floor thingy they'd put a black mark that will come up with the blue Scotch-Brite pad.

 

If you are going to spend $10k on a G garage floor, $200 for a set of Race Ramps is nothing much more.

 

You'll be hard pressed to find a floor jack that can reach the center front jack point on these cars; too low. If I need extra height, I put the car up on ramps, then jack up from there. If you ever do this; don't forget to lower the car back down on the ramps - you'll never be able to pull your jack out and if you moved it - you don't know if it's properly centered on that jack point.
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