6 Tips To Set Up The Perfect Home Car Workshop

Make sure your garage has enough space to work, use powerful LED lights, stack up on necessary tools, buy or create a workbench, and install a car hoist.

If you own a house of your own, chances are, you also have a garage. A garage is not only a place where you keep your car but also store your spare tools.

If you do not own a car, the garage can also be used as a storeroom. However, if you do own a car, it is very much likely that you should transform your garage into a mini car workshop. This way, you can not only do the necessary repairs and modifications whenever you want, but you will also save a lot on service charges as well as your precious time.

So, how do you turn your garage into a car workshop? This article will help you with that.

1. You Need To Have Proper Storage Facilities

Before you turn your garage into a workshop, you need to keep in mind the necessary facilities a car workshop has.

A car workshop usually has a lot of heavy objects like spare wheels, metal repair kits, rims, wind blowers, and much more.

So, to properly place these objects, you need to utilize the available space in your garage so that everything stays in place and you can find whatever you want right on time. Extra space in the garage will also allow you to keep it clean.

Cleaning your kitchen and garage can be painstaking but if you have space to move around freely you can get it done faster.

You will get maximum output from a minimum amount of space by organizing your workshop in a productive way. Also, it will save a lot of time.

2. Brighten Up The Place

You will be working under the bonnet of a car or truck a lot of the time in your home workshop.

That means if the only electrical lighting you have is located on the ceiling of the workshop, you are sure to work much of the time in the shadow of the bonnet.

Without proper light, it will be hard to work. So it is necessary to keep it bright with both High powered LED light and natural lighting.

Building several windows, painting the room in light color are some of the ways you can try to increase the natural lighting in your garage.

3. Make Sure You Have The Right Set Of Tools

Without having proper tools, it is completely meaningless to have a car workshop. Some must-have tools that you need are:

Impact wrench

A crucial tool for removing car components

High torque pneumatic wrench

An automatic tool that swiftly bolts the wheel with your car.

Extension bar

Two types of extension bars that can swiftly open sockets.

Battery carrier

Batteries are really heavy, so a carrier can help shift these heavy parts from one place to another.

Screwdrivers with hex bolsters

Screwdrivers are obviously the most common tool for any workshop or garage. Hex bolsters, however, are very situational.

Jack Sands

Unless you want to hold your car up with your bare hands, you should get some jack hands that will lift your car so you can work more efficiently.

Hood Light

To look deep inside the hood of your car and see if there are any problems with the engine, you need a hood light that will help you get better vision.

4. Use Hydraulic Car Jacks For Better Safety

We did just talk about getting jack stands for your car. But not many Jack stands provide equal amounts of efficiency and safety.

Normal manual jack stands have records of causing severe injury. An alternative would be to get floor jacks, but these car jacks sometimes leak oil.

Hydraulic car jacks, however, not only provide better safety while lifting your car, but they also have better load carry capacity.

Each hydraulic car jack can carry about 900 kg to 25 tons. So, it is obvious which one is better and what you should work with.

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