What is the name of a jack that is used for lifting a car when changing a flat?
It's called a jack but if you want to be technical it's proper name is John.
A small, light, hydraulic aluminum floor jack is the slickest thing since sliced bread. Check out: Harbor Freight Tools for a location near you. They're priced from $59.00 - $200.00.
The one that comes with your car is usually a mechanical scissor jack for emergencies. The ones we mechanics use at the shop are at least 3-ton floor jacks but you don't use that to hold the car up for long periods where you have to start banging on the chassis to remove parts or have to remove the engine mounts that is really unsafe. For that case you use a floor jack, then use jack stands to hold the car up on each side, or at my shop we simply use a hydraulic lift. Sorry for getting to technical, but if you are working underneath you car ie modifying engine components and what not I STRONGLY recommend a floor jack and some jack stands. If you just need something to change a tire in an emergency from time to time a floor jack or a scissor jack is what you use. Hope this helps, best of luck.
once you carry a automobile utilising a jack, you're at maximum in basic terms taking one wheel off the floor. you're also shifting the burden of the vehicle by technique of jacking it up. you always opt for to save the vehicle in park so it doesn't roll backwards and slide proper off the jack or the jack stand that you position on it. you ought to chock (position obstructions like a brick or block of timber) behind both wheels that stay on the floor to more advantageous shrink the probability of the vehicle rolling or shifting round. Whoever instructed you to placed the vehicle in impartial to jack it up is an finished fool.
