Pulling car on ramps with no oil in motor

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Hi

I'm an happy E85 2.5i owner from Italy

I'm changing the oil level sensor but my drain plug broke so I had to leave my car with no oil in, when I'll get a replacement I need to find a way to push or pull my car back on my ramps

push it with another car with an old tire between em?
tow it with another car using the hooks and a rope?
something else?

Thank you
 
Just lift up one side with a trolley jack (and support with an axle stand)? Should be enough clearance for that job.
 
enuff_zed said:
The OP's wording of 'pull my car back onto ramps' led me to believe he has them fixed somewhere? Could be wrong.
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no the ramps are not fixed, but I have no jacks, I simply need a way to push or pull the car on again
enuff_zed said:
How far away are the ramps. Can't a couple of you simply push it?
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2 of us couldn't do the work, its a 17% gradient
 

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If you have a long plank and something to use as a pivot, one of you could push down on the plank to lift it while the other one put the ramp under the wheel. Not joking, I have done this myself back in the day. :thumbsup:
 
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no the ramps are not fixed, but I have no jacks, I simply need a way to push or pull the car on again

2 of us couldn't do the work, its a 17% gradient
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So, no way you could put the ramps at the bottom of the slope?
 
enuff_zed said:
So, no way you could put the ramps at the bottom of the slope?
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what slope? sorry I don't understand, I'm on a flat surface, I have 2 plastic ramps 21cm high with a 17% climb angle and I have no jacks, and even with a jack I don't know if I can raise the car so much that I can have 21cm under my wheels to put the ramps under them
 
If I wasn't allowed to use my jacks, then I'd get out my block and tackle. I'd attach a fixing eye to some point out of shot, get a long length of rope, wind it back and forth through the pulleys, attach it to the towing eye and pull it up the ramps.

Easy.

But then, like the jack, you're going to say you haven't got block and tackle, either...

I think you may have to resort to buying a trolley jack. They're not expensive, always useful and most will lift the car high enough to get it on the ramps (I've got a set of similar plastic ramps that are far too steep for me to drive up with the Z4 and have lifted it onto the ramps a couple of times. I prefer them to mucking about with axle stands.)
 
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Buy or borrow a jack. At some point you’re going to need to remove a wheel anyway so you’ll need something more than ramps
 
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