What kind is the best to lift your car up for oil change, etc at home?

Jack up kind? or the ramp is better??? Why each of them differ so much in price, what brand or any recommendation on the item?What kind is the best to lift your car up for oil change, etc at home?
Ramps are definitely safer as long as you stick a chock behind each rear wheel to prevent it from rolling off the ramps accidentally.What kind is the best to lift your car up for oil change, etc at home?
I have ramps, jack stands, and a floor jack. As another answerer said, you want the right tool for the job.





With that said, if all I'm doing is an oil change, I use my ramps. The ramps are a little tricky if you're using them on a concrete shop floor, as I do. For a front-wheel drive car, you'll probably be able to crawl right up them without the ramps slipping. But in my rear-wheel drive pickup truck, I have to put some rubber underneath the ramps to keep them from skidding across the floor and causing mass carnage. I have some old bicycle tires that I'm modifying to fit around the bottom lip of the ramps-- hopefully this will fix that problem.





In my experience, my Rhino Ramps 8,000-pound capacity units cost more than my three-ton jack stands. But my three-ton floor jack was the most expensive of all, somewhere north of $125. Regardless, it's a good idea to have all three. You'll need the floor jack and (four) jack stands to do things like tire rotation, brake work, etc.
just to change oil


a jack and a jack stand


but ramps are safer


with jack you can remove wheels


ramp you cant


if your going to work on your car need all three jack jack stands and ramps


right tools for the job
use a floor jack to lift the car then put the rams underneath the tires. i know you can drive them on but the ramps just slide forward.
either but ramps safer.