4 Post Car Lifts

A four-post lift does two jobs no other equipment does as well: it doubles your parking by stacking one vehicle over another, and it gives you a drive-on platform for service work without lifting by the frame. My Garage Supplies carries four-post lifts from Katool, AMGO, Triumph, Atlas, Tuxedo and iDEAL in capacities from 7,000 lbs for compact parking lifts up to 40,000-lb commercial platforms — and every listing shows the real price, for warehouse pickup or delivered, up front.

Storage, Service, Parking or Alignment — Which Four-Post Type Do You Need?

Storage lifts are the home-garage classic: drive on, raise it, park a second car underneath. Models like the Tuxedo FP9K-DX-XLT come with drip trays to protect the car below, a jack tray, and caster kits so the whole lift rolls to a new spot in the garage. Service lifts add higher capacities and accept rolling bridge jacks, so you can raise the wheels off the runways for brake and suspension work. Parking lifts — including double-wide and triple-stacker configurations from AMGO — maximize cars per square foot in commercial storage. Alignment lifts like the Katool KT-4H150 build in turn-plate pockets and slip plates for wheel alignment service, and that one ships with its rolling jack included.

What a Four-Post Lift Costs

Real ranges from this collection, not teaser numbers: entry 7,000–8,000 lb parking and storage lifts start around $2,700–$3,400. The most popular home tier — 9,000–11,000 lb storage and service models with casters and accessories included — runs roughly $3,000–$5,000. Heavy 12,000–15,000 lb service lifts sit between $4,200 and $8,300, alignment-ready versions between $5,100 and $10,000, and commercial 18,000–40,000 lb platforms run from about $8,900 up to $23,000. If a price looks unusually low elsewhere, check whether ramps, casters, jack trays and freight are actually included — here they're listed on each product page.

How a Four-Post Lift Works

Four posts carry a pair of runways on steel lifting cables driven by a hydraulic cylinder and power unit — most home models plug into a standard 110V outlet. As the runways rise, spring-loaded mechanical locks engage ladder positions in each column; you lower the lift onto its locks before working or storing, so the vehicle rests on steel, not hydraulics. Slack-cable safeties stop everything if a cable ever loses tension. Because the vehicle sits on its wheels the whole time, there's no lift-point guesswork — which is exactly why four-posts are the storage standard.

Sizing It to Your Garage

• Capacity: rate above your heaviest vehicle — a 3/4-ton pickup wants 9,000–11,000 lbs, not an 8,000-lb lift at its limit. Trucks and fleets: see the AMGO PRO-18 and up.
• Runway length: long-wheelbase trucks need extended runways — that's what the XLT in models like the Katool KT-4H110 class and Tuxedo's extended series is for.
• Ceiling: lift height plus the height of the vehicle on top must clear your ceiling; storage models typically stand 85–97" tall with lift heights around 79–85".
• Floor: most storage four-posts are freestanding on a sound concrete slab and move on included casters; check each product page for the manufacturer's concrete spec before anchoring service models.

Prefer working under an open floor with the wheels hanging free? That's the two-post pattern — compare our two-post lifts if service, not storage, is the main job.

Every four-post lift here comes from an authorized US supplier with the manufacturer's warranty intact, and our team sizes lifts against real vehicles daily. Call 307-381-1810 before you buy — capacity, runway and ceiling questions take five minutes on the phone and save a freight-return headache.