[Gretz]

I put anchors down in two locations in my three car garage. One is in the one car section and I spaced the columns out 96 inches from the inside edge of the bottom plates. On the other side of the garage I installed anchors so that the columns are about 110 inches apart. For many projects, I used the narrower side because it was more out-of-the-way in the garage and it worked fine. The only difficulty was that sometimes if I wanted to open the door and start the engine or do something inside the car. It was difficult to do that because the columns were so close to the car.

The wider location was originally intended to be used with a C7 Z06 that I no longer have, and is much wider than the 911. It did work great for that, and a gen6 Camaro, and also a Nissan Altima.

It’s funny that you bring this up though because when I recently moved the columns back to the wide side to help a friend do some work, I realized how much more spacious and usable it was. I then did some work on the 911 in the wider location, which I had not done before, and realized that it was much easier to get in and out of the car, if needed, while the car was on the lift, and was also much easier to pull the car in and leave it if I was not using the lift. Overall, I am much happier using the lift in the wider location. So much so that I just ordered new replacement hydraulic hoses so that I can use it with the power unit mounted on the wall and one of the cables run up the wall over the ceiling and back down to the far column.

To summarize, I would suggest that if you have the room for a wider installation, go ahead and do that. There’s no problem with the narrower installation, but given the choice, I chose the wider.