It’s rare that Harbor Freight comes up without its issues with jack stands being mentioned. Nobody knows that better than Harbor Freight, which has spent a lot of time trying to right those wrongs by ...

If you’re under a car working right now, stop. Slide out from underneath your car and inspect your jack stands. If these jack stands happen to be from Harbor Freight, you might not want to slide back ...

"To the Harbor Freight Community: I'm writing to apologize," reads the introduction of Eric Smidt's letter to customers of Harbor Freight, the discount hardware store that he founded. "A few months ...

In 2022, I wrote a brief article covering some then-new Daytona jack stands at Harbor Freight. In that story, I talk about Harbor Freight’s notorious jack stand woes and everything it’s doing to ...

Remember when we published a story on Harbor Freight's jack stands being recalled because their locking pawls weren't fully engaging? It turns out that the replacement jack stands may have issues too ...

Harbor Freight has issued a recall and “do not use” alert on hundreds of thousands of jack stands due to a manufacturing issue that may lead to their collapse. According to the company, the pawl on ...

As Warren Buffett famously says, "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." This is probably most true when lives are at stake and safety means taking everything seriously ...

Back in May, we wrote about a selection of Pittsburgh brand three- and six-ton jack stands recalled by Harbor Freight because of a manufacturing defect that could cause them to collapse under load, ...

If you’re going to work on your car, odds are you need a pair of jack stands. Maybe your truck has enough ground clearance that you can reach the oil filter from underneath without them, but to be ...

Months after Harbor Freight recalled 454,000 jack stands because they posed a safety risk, the retailer announced it is now recalling the replacement stands. "I'm disappointed and embarrassed because ...