Really cool outtake from a Jimmie Johnson promo shoot where the Team 48 car falls off the lift! Almost crushes Jimmie and Chad! Look at the car balancing on the box at the end.
I think that lift is rated to hold a heavy truck/van. Nascar weighs less than the average car? The shop Jimmie Johnson is shooting at, 100% must be a top rated shop which means all their components are maintained regularly. Everything is cleaned and I doubt routine inspections do not occur. With all that said it was 99.999% staged.
If your criteria for purchasing a tool chest includes "Ability to work after having a car dropped on them", perhaps you have bigger problems than deciding on a toolbox brand.
Jordan Tiegs it still would have had the locks on and would have come down an inch or two and stopped, the way it was set up was to look like an electrical failure and in that case nothing would have happened.
Nope. Same old design as ~25 years ago... If it works, why change it? Look at transport trucks. All the current workings are basically interchangeable with models from the 70's. So they change the cab for aerodynamics and added trailer skirts... brake drums haven't changed at all. What does change in the world of lifts is weaker/thinner materials to try and save a buck in manufacturing. That lift most likely has a thicker baseplate than current models. Welcome to corporate america... where the bottom line is the only thing that matters. As for the lift dropping, it is a hoax. I think one or two people had zero clue it was going to happen to help create a feel of authentic fear but all in all, sparks from a box that is not even part of the lift do not cause mechanical failures. Pyrotechnics anyone? It is a show, after all ;-) If you look closely, the lock release lever is tied in the release position and there is an odd black line going to the disconnect box where the sparks occurred After the car started to descend. I doubt there is even a powertrain in that race car.
Maybe lifts don't fail like that, but some of them do, the mechanical safety locks couldn't handle the explosion as you saw in the scene. Some bolts even went flying around the garage.
No debate this is an ad. The guy in the black shirt (with the bad poker face) walks to the left of the screen and sets off some timed mechanism to safely set the car on the box with an explosion to go along with it. The arms of the lift support the fall until the car is sitting on the box, then they drop like flies. Plus, no one brings toolboxes under cars.
What a bunch of BS!!! "Car Falls on Jimmie Johnson"??? REALLY??? He was STAGED a more than SAFE DISTANCE AWAY FROM the car that was PLANNED TO FALL on the box. Came NOWHERE NEAR "almost" crushing anything other than the toolbox the car was INTENDED to fall onto. And I bet the lift was STILL supporting more of the cars weight than the toolbox was.
rcmodelr things fail i have family that are mechanics and they have jacks that they put at the front and back to prevent things like this from happening its not staged
Being an electrician i can tell ya that short in the control box wouldnt make the hydrolics fail in pressure. It would just short out the circuit with a boom and not just a few sparks. Plus those lifts have a fail safe that prevents the car from falling and keeping the hydrolics from under constant pressure while a load is raised. Just like a tractor with its bucket raised. The rams would have too fail all 4 of them. Not likly. Now, toss that box out the back of a moving truck and then ask for a screwdriver. If it opens with all its ballbearings in place still, never would, but if it did then id buy. Till then, wouldnt by either. Add or box
lol i liked this commercial, interesting idea to market their product. reminded me of the series of toyota commercials where the truck was indestructable.
there is a hydraulic release and a mechanical release that must be triggered at the same time for a lift like that to go down. falling like that is impossible.
no lift in any respectable shop is not going to have emergency stops every few inches on each side its standard to have them, its the clicking sound you hear every couple of seconds when you lift a car up on one of these
At least it's an obvious fake. The toolbox would likely support the car, but there's a mechanical safety on the lift. That's not how they drop. The spark show was designed. I thought it might be real for a moment until I saw that it was an angle to promote Kobalts boxes.
I thought this commercial was good actually, the idea is good. Everyone knows it is fake but it is meant to say they make REALLY strong toolboxes. Good commercial IMO.
First of all take notice that the Lift Electrical Shut off box is Open not closed like it should be (did this to enhance the sparks effect ) Second almost all lifts have Lock outs to prevent a Failure of the Hydraulics or Power
that was cool i know the guy who built that car for that shoot and its awesome to see this cause i wanted to see how it turned out with the car being on top of the box
Believe me folks, this is the real deal! I'm Michael from the video and just want to thank the good folks at Kobalt for creating such a strong toolbox and saving the day!
My dad puts cars on stuff all the time and he can move the car up and down just like that with the motor in. Js but your probably right they probably don't have a motor in it lol
The sparks come from the button that actuated the hydronic pump. Ut has nothing to do with it being able to release the hydraulics fluid pressure. There's 2 levers you have to use to let it down. I have used this same model for over 5 years. Its impossible for it to just drop.This is staged.
Wait I am confused. So the car falling was not intended for the commercial. But it went so well that they filmed it as a commercial instead. Is that right?
So it was all a setup for the commercial. BIG DEAL! It's still a funny video, and I'm pretty sure you're all gonna remember it tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. By that standard, it was a SUCCESS. And it beats the hell out of Yet Another Talking Head Commercial.
It's an add for Kobalt tool boxes. Check out whats written on the movie time clapper board at the start. It says "LOWES KOBALT" which is the brand of the tool box. IT"S ALL A SETUP
