How to Build a Toy Car Ramp Out of Wood

If y'all drive a lowered machine, sports car or own a race car information technology can be a scrap of a pain anytime yous want to jack information technology up to work underneath information technology equally standard jacks are oftentimes too high to slide nether the jacking points. The simple solution is to purchase a low profile jack, but they're quite expensive. A price-effective alternative is to make yourself a set up of custom car ramps out of forest, and y'all tin do this for well under £/€20 plus you lot get to go and tinker in the shed for a few hours!

How to brand your own DIY car ramps:

What you'll need:

Wood
Long wood screws
Wood glue
Drill & $.25
Saw - preferably circular
Measuring record
Rubber goggles

Measure out twice - cut once! Before you leave and buy a load of wood it'southward a practiced idea to take a few measurements off your car first so that yous can work out how much you're going to need so you don't waste money ownership as well much, or indeed also little. First measure the width of your tyres, the wood you purchase needs to be wider. And then measure from the centre line of your wheel dorsum to the jacking bespeak. (measurement 'A' in the diagram below) This will be the length of your longest piece. Lastly, measure out from the ground to the underside of your front bumper. (Measurement 'B') Measurement 'B' dictates how steeply angled your ramps can be and will exist affected by the length of the front overhang on your particular car. How to make your own DIY car ramps The ramps we made were for an e46 BMW on 205 wide tyres. The wood we bought was 10" x 2" which comes in an viii-foot length (244cm) - we bought 2. The measurements used were as follows:

Bottom section: 76cm (x2)
Heart section: 54cm (x2)
Acme section: 30cm (x2)

When you add all these up it comes to a total of 320cm and then we knew we'd have plenty of wood left if we did make a mistake.

Method:

Mark out all the different cutting lines on your pieces of wood. Y'all tin either cutting them all at 90 degrees commencement, so cut off the 45-caste angles or yous can do what we did and cutting at 45 degrees outset. If you lot're doing that, bear in mind that non all of the cuts will exist 45 degrees. Meet the diagram below. If you're using a circular saw like nosotros did, make sure you throw on a pair of rubber goggles. Once you have all the sections cutting to length, you lot should take 2 of each piece. Lay them out side by side to bank check that the lengths all match up. How to make your own DIY car ramps Now is a practiced time to go over each slice quickly with some sandpaper to remove whatever rough edges. Next, you're going to fix the bottom and centre sections together. Employ a generous portion of wood glue to the underside of the shorter middle section, taking intendance not to get information technology also close to the edges and then it doesn't squeeze out. Ideally, clamp the 2 pieces together, y'all'll need 2 or 3 screws, evenly spaced, drill modest countersink holes about 2mm deep with a large drill flake, then join the 2 pieces together with your screws. Remove the clamps and echo the procedure with the height section. Take note of where the screws are positioned that bring together the bottom and middle sections so that you put the ones joining the top to the heart sections in a unlike place. We made a 'stop' for the top section of the ramp from an offcut and fastened it in the same way with countersunk screws. All that's left to do at present is go and test out your new cosmos! For longevity, information technology would exist a good idea to care for the wood with a varnish or stain, merely try and use something that isn't also sleeky equally you don't want to reduce the grip levels and brand it harder for the car to bulldoze upwardly the ramps. How to make your own wooden car ramps If all that sounds like way besides much attempt yous can check out our range of off-the-shelf motorcar ramps, jacks & axle stands here!