I've been offered a good sized storage / workshop unit including 2 ramps for a good price and I was thinking about renting one of the ramps out on a per hour basis to cover the cost of the rent but I was wondering how much of a market there is for such a thing ?
Dependant on area would expect a reasonable market but would come with lots other issues with insurances liability, lifting equ inspections and use agreements may make it more problematic
Yep if it was local I would be a customer.
Subject to insurance, liability etc yes I would expect it would.
I know a number of mobile mechanics in my area hire ramp time from a local tyre fitter.
Where is the unit? Might be interested at some point in the future.
It would be more trouble than it's worth IMO with insurance etc. It would be much easier to find someone to share on a permanent basis and just split the costs.
The unit is in shirebrook ng20 about 10mins from M1 j29 . It would primarily be used as a garage with the added bonus of having somewhere to store and work on my own cars .
it would work if you had customers who knew what they were doing and had the right parts . it all comes unstuck when a job goes wrong and the ramp is blocked for hours/days etc .
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Originally posted by froggy
it would work if you had customers who knew what they were doing and had the right parts . it all comes unstuck when a job goes wrong and the ramp is blocked for hours/days etc .
I remember an ad for a big place in London doing rent a ramp and it looked like the real money is in the extra hire costs when it goes tits up .
I used to let mates use my big commercial 4 post which is outside and doesn't get used much but had too many Sunday jobs still on the ramp the
following week to Bother anymore . The other issue is if your on site you can guarantee to spend a fair amount of time getting involved when they
can't do something or more likely the aldi socket set and rubber spanner create another job .
Yeh I could see major arse ache with getting the ramp cleared or having to do the job to get it cleared.
Last summer a mate toasted his clutch a few weeks before an event at the pod. I said if he could get the use of a ramp I would do his clutch. I never
thought he would actually find some one that would rent him the lift when he doesn't even own a spanner. But he did.
Having never done a clutch change on a skyline before we did get it done in an afternoon but we did run over his deadline of 4pm by an hour.
want my own 
There is a place that does this in Coventry, might be worth giving them a call http://www.rampandwrench.co.uk/main/