This is probably the best explanation of how to jack up the car, and he is using Kia Soul to demonstrate - But I have zero experience jack up the car this way.
How safe it is for the car ?
Im referring to this point which he uses to lift the car:
This is probably the best explanation of how to jack up the car, and he is using Kia Soul to demonstrate - But I have zero experience jack up the car this way.
How safe it is for the car ?
I'm not a mechanic or expert. My 2 cents is I think the jackstand placements in the video are wrong. I don't think the pinch welds - they are very thin - are designed to support the weight of the car, that's why people end up with bent (and then rusted) pinch welds.
I assume the slot in the jack lifting plate is deeper than the height of the pinch weld thereby the pinch weld is not subjected to any upward or lifting force.
I assume the wider section of the jack lifting plate is the sole (or main) point of contact where the lifting force from the jack is applied to lift the vehicle.
Thus by positioning the Kia roadside jack between the two notches and so that the pinch weld fits down into the slot, the jack will be properly located to make contact with the small reinforced section of the underbody engineered to be a lift point.
Those places he shows are fine. They are very strong parts of the car that have to hold the weight of the car. Ive also used the bolt that goes into the subframe on the front lower control arm to jack the car up.
I use one of these rubber pinch weld adapters on my jack stands, and if I’m just jacking the car up for a few mins to change a tire, I use the rubber hockey puck adapter on my floor jack and use the pinch weld at the notches to jack it up.
I use one of these rubber pinch weld adapters on my jack stands, and if I’m just jacking the car up for a few mins to change a tire, I use the rubber hockey puck adapter on my floor jack and use the pinch weld at the notches to jack it up. View attachment 139380
When using my floor jack near the pinch weld I use a block of scrap 2x4 placed alongside the pinch weld at the lift point.
And when want to have the car up for a longer period of time or to be safer versus solely using a floor jack, then in place of standard jack stands I use Unijacks.
Those places he shows are fine. They are very strong parts of the car that have to hold the weight of the car. Ive also used the bolt that goes into the subframe on the front lower control arm to jack the car up.
I want to put the car on Jackstands so I cant use the pinch weld places. I want to verify that I can use the other place he used to lift the car - he said it the place where the crossmembers connects to the body. as show in the picture
Is this the Bolt you are referring to in your answer ?
Had my car up in the air plenty of times from there, as @rhysoul said, then put your jack stands where the jack point goes at the pinch weld. Then lower your car until the weight is on the jack stands, and when the floor jack is free crank it back until it's just touching where you jacked it from, then take the handle off. Now you have 3 support points. You can never have too many support points when you are working under a vehicle.
when the floor jack is free crank it back until it's just touching where you jacked it from, then take the handle off. Now you have 3 support points. You can never have too many support points when you are working under a vehicle
That’s an excellent point. I do this too and will even lay the tire under the car right next to the jack stand. Also use wheel chocks (or a block of wood). You can never be too safe.
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