SOT Did you install your own two post lift Options

[sww914]

I found a good deal on a used lift but I'm probably too cheap to pay anyone to install it.
Where I'd like to put it is in my driveway just in front of the garage, but the concrete there is 30 years old.
Will I get Ginted if I plant it in old concrete?

Ginted
verb
1. to have one's head partially smashed by a falling automobile due to a failed support device. ( often not fatal or disfiguring) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

[r_towle]

If you have a drill and a masonry bit, drill a few test holes in the driveway to determine how thick it is.

If you are ok there, rent a metal detector to see if there is re-enforcing.
Typically there is, if you dont have loads of cracks...if you do have loads of crack, its probably not re-enforced.

If you pass both tests, go for it, just use a really heavy duty concrete fastener.
If its two thin, a larger plate of 3/8 inch steel will work to spread the wieght out, figure that you need to quadruple the foot print on the ground, and you will be fine.

At the end of the day, you are placing a load of 1/2 the car and 1/2 the lift on less than one square foot of concrete.

Rich