Jack stands are extremely important to your safety when it comes to working underneath your car. Here are our picks of the best jack stands. If you ever have to perform any maintenance work on your ...

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 ...

If you ever have to perform any maintenance work on your vehicle that requires lifting it off the ground, you need to invest ...

To work on a car—in most scenarios—is to jack it up off the ground. That’s great, but jack stands aren’t always the best solution. While they might be the industry standard, they’re only useful in ...

If you're planning on doing any kind of work on your vehicle, even just basic maintenance, having a set of jack stands is an absolute necessity. Jack stands allow you to securely -- and safely -- ...

If you're not a professional mechanic, odds are you don't have a four-post lift in your garage. In fact, you probably don't have a garage at all and need to work on things in the driveway or ...

This article was updated in May 2025 with new information. In the world of automotive gear, where tech often takes the front stage, an analog soldier serves its purpose: the trusty car jack. As handy ...

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 ...

The most obvious reason to jack up a car is to change a tire, but other jobs such as inspecting brakes may also require you to get under the vehicle. (Even if you're skinny enough to squeeze yourself ...

Anyone who has spent the better part of a day under a festered old car tugging on suspension bits has probably cast the occasional hairy eyeball at the rusty old no-name jack stands supporting it. You ...

Get off the road and as far away from traffic as you can. If you're on a highway and near an exit, take it. The goal is to get off the road entirely and on to solid, level ground—such as a parking lot ...

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, ...