s/c 6

or is it total weight of the car i should consider. I know the sentence is a bit confusing but I'm a bit confused in how to even aske the question. Let's try this -- if I put my car which weight 3800 lbs on 4 jack stands that are rated at two each is each stand at capacity or hold about a quarter of its rated capacity?

CharlieGSanD

the rating should be for the amount of weight that the stand itself can hold, not the total weight of the car

a4elias

3800 lbs = 1.72 tons *anyway*, so even if each of them had to support whole car you would be OK