A couple of other things to note about the wildfire vs the Advantage.

The steel ramps are strong for sure but they are HEAVY. The aluminum ramps are built more than well enough to handle the vehicle driving up over them and will be much easier to move in and out between uses. I'm not sure about Wildfire but Advantage offers a 48 inch aluminum approach ramp as an option instead of the 36 standard pieces if you need a better approach angle. I swapped mine out and the longer ramps have been great for my low cars.

Wildfire only has one or two warehouses that they ship from as opposed to Advantage with 5, including one relatively close to the Northeast, in eastern PA which makes shipping and installation a bit easier / cheaper if you live on the east coast.

Advantage lifts upgraded their runways recently with flapper plates rather than removable fixed position plate metal stops. When loading or unloading a vehicle, you can just slip the ramp under the flapper plate and go. No need to remove two steel plates and set them aside, then out them back. From the looks of it, a large truck or SUV would have no problem driving up and over the flapper plate onto the lift without the ramps although I haven't tried it yet with my Jeep. They're also removable if you want so that the ramps can be hooked directly into the lift as well.

Just some thoughts from all the research I had done. I think all three are good products.

Lots of great info guys, thanks. Lots of good points LBAR.

Good video NHRA, thanks.

I used to build the ARI lifts, welding and assembly and wiring. Funny enough Verizon used to buy these things by the hundreds from us

What am I using...concrete floor, two floor jacks, four jack stands, and my aching back. Oh to have the room for a lift...

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Originally posted by limblessbiff:
I used to build the ARI lifts, welding and assembly and wiring. Funny enough Verizon used to buy these things by the hundreds from us

For what? Server racks?

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
What am I using...concrete floor, two floor jacks, four jack stands, and my aching back. Oh to have the room for a lift...

This is my method. I am about 24 mounts out (hopefully) from a garage addition that will allow me to install a lift. However, I've been saying 24 months for the last few years...

Back in my youth I worked at a gas station/repair shop. We had 2 - in-ground single center post lifts. I was spoiled. Man I miss those days.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Can someone please explain the symmetric vs asymmetric? Oh I know what the words mean .
But in this context why would you prefer/need one vs the other.

Thanks

https://www.asedeals.com/blog/...-two-post-lifts.html

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Originally posted by Russ59:

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Originally posted by limblessbiff:
I used to build the ARI lifts, welding and assembly and wiring. Funny enough Verizon used to buy these things by the hundreds from us

For what? Server racks?

Apparently for their trucks, a lot of them too. Coca Cola bought a hundred or so from us as well.
These are lift systems meant for heavy duty things like fire trucks and semis and even bull dozers.

And once again, there goes my dream of a lift. 04 Cummins Dodge lost reverse. Just heard from tranny shop. Rebuild coming up! MFucker! Second rebuild on the 48RE piece of shit in 246k miles. There goes my lift money....again.

Get your lift and pull the tranny yourself! Just get the shop to do a "bench job", which means you pull it.

Way beyond the realm of possibility there GTO.

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Originally posted by apf383:
And once again, there goes my dream of a lift. 04 Cummins Dodge lost reverse. Just heard from tranny shop. Rebuild coming up! MFucker! Second rebuild on the 48RE piece of shit in 246k miles. There goes my lift money....again.

That absolutely sucks, sorry to hear it.