Warning about Harbor Freight jacks. My 1.5T Harbor Freight floor jack failed, luckily I wasn’t under it.

I’ve never bought anything from Harbor Freight that my life would depend on. However, about a month ago I needed a cheap jack to lift up the tongue of a trailer and didn’t want to spend a lot and I didn’t have access to my normal jack.

I was changing the oil in the wife’s car today and went for this jack since it’s smaller than my Sunex and I only needed to bring it up a few inches. Luckily I had a jack stand under. When I was down jacking, I got about 1/2” up and it completely collapsed, dropping the car onto the stand.

I’m just glad I wasn’t under the car to pull the stand when it failed. I’ve literally used this thing twice. Never trust your life to cheap equipment.