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#306822 24-Aug-2023 14:23

Does anyone have any experience importing and installing a car turn table?

I need to replace my driveway and I would substantially increase the utility of it by adding a turn table. Looking around online it looks like local prices are 20-35k compared to 5-10k landed from China.

So my questions are

Has anyone got a car turntable? Are they are useful as they look for a long driveway
Has anyone DIY installed a turn table? What was your experience?
Really long shot but has anyone imported car turn tables from china before? How is the quality?

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#3119798 24-Aug-2023 14:40

I have absolutely no need of one but inexplicably want one!

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#3119800 24-Aug-2023 14:44

No direct experience but a potential purchaser of our previous home when we were selling, investigated putting one at the end of our drive. My understanding is that they need to be installed in a flat and level area. So in a garage floor would likely be OK provided there’s enough room at the sides to swing the car.

Equally you would need flat and level at the end of a drive. In our case, that wasn’t the situation so it wasn’t going to work without major adjustments to the contour of the drive. That was going to be prohibitively expensive.

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#3119822 24-Aug-2023 15:08

Yes, I want one too! 😁

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#3119824 24-Aug-2023 15:19

Interested...

Depending on how fequently you want to turn a car around.... if you have a flat horizontal drive then hydraulic wheel dollies may be a cheap option.

Maybe something like this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004269277491.html

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#3119847 24-Aug-2023 16:36

Gordy7:

Interested...

Depending on how fequently you want to turn a car around.... if you have a flat horizontal drive then hydraulic wheel dollies may be a cheap option.

Maybe something like this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004269277491.html

Or a new car 🤣

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#3119857 24-Aug-2023 17:53

KevlarCoated:
I need to replace my driveway and I would substantially increase the utility of it by adding a turn table. Looking around online it looks like local prices are 20-35k compared to 5-10k landed from China.

I would be pretty wary of buying something that expensive from there, they're likely to be made of Chinesium to get the price down that low which means they'll fracture/snap/rust/whatever long before their time.

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#3119859 24-Aug-2023 17:58

Here's an example of something made from said substance that looks perfectly solid until you use it:

CCA Cat5 is another example of such material.

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#3119974 25-Aug-2023 07:08

neb:
KevlarCoated:

I need to replace my driveway and I would substantially increase the utility of it by adding a turn table. Looking around online it looks like local prices are 20-35k compared to 5-10k landed from China.

I would be pretty wary of buying something that expensive from there, they're likely to be made of Chinesium to get the price down that low which means they'll fracture/snap/rust/whatever long before their time.

That's a good point. There is a pretty wide range of prices on alibaba (as cheap as 2.5kUSD and up to 10k+USD.) It's likely that some of them are actually decent quality but it's impossible to know which with out buying them check out. Maybe if I needed multiple it would make sense to take the risk but I definitely dont need multiple turn tables

Thanks