Shovel - Totally agree with your comments. For flat tire duty I am currently carrying a standard 5-ton floor jack around with me, until I find a bottle jack that wasn't made by the 'lowest bidder', and also have the OE scissor jack (which seem like a POS but as last resort should work...I hope). I bought the Lift-Mate for helping get off rocks, logs, etc...last year on a camping / biking trip in Wyoming we got the rear diff hung up and wedged against a semi-buried log and I promised the wife next time it wouldn't take us an hour, ok hour and a half, to get out of that predicament.