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Thread: VXR / SRI Xp Owners. Jacking point ?

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    Default VXR / SRI Xp Owners. Jacking point ?

    wheres the best place to put a trollery jack on the vec ?

    ive got a trolley jack and planning to lift up one corner at a time to clean the arches and alloys properly etc..

    Ive heard about people ending up jacking cars by the side skirts and cracking em, so i want to get it right.

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    if you look on the side sill/shirt you will see a upside triangle, and if you look a bit further umder the car you will soo a black square block, that will be the place to jack the car up

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    Quote Originally Posted by glynn View Post
    if you look on the side sill/shirt you will see a upside triangle, and if you look a bit further umder the car you will soo a black square block, that will be the place to jack the car up
    I think the bit on the sill is really designed for jacking with the supplied wind-up jack. For Trolley jacks, it is usually further under the vehicle. If you have the vehicle handbook, it will tell you. If you do not have a handbook, they can be downlaoded FOC from VX website.

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    Yeah, like the Vauxhall manual tells you anything useful like that.

    As Glynn says, the triangular section just behind the arch is the place to jack on the front, rear has a similar section just infront of where the suspension arm meets the subframe. DON'T jack off the rear suspension, it's aluminium and will crumple like....er...aluminium.

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    If its just a small harlfords type trolley jack it will be fine to use at the jacking points , its more the larger garage type jacks that cause problems

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    No, don't use any trolley on the plastic jacking point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by _ZS_ View Post
    No, don't use any trolley on the plastic jacking point.
    Never had a problem with using a small trolley jack, wee bit of common sense needed ...thats all

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    My common sense says don't jack a 1.5 tonne car on a small piece of black plastic designed to stop the OE jack moving sideways...

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    Quote Originally Posted by _ZS_ View Post
    My common sense says don't jack a 1.5 tonne car on a small piece of black plastic designed to stop the OE jack moving sideways...
    Ok mate you dont use one and I do , what do you do when you get new tyres fitted in a tyre depot....bring out your own jack and tell them to use that.

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    i use a proper trolly jack on the jacking points never had a problem no funny noises! and there ent plastic aroun the jacking points! y would they put plastic aroun the jacking point to stop the standard jack from slipping? if a 1.5tonne car is slipping under the standard jack then plastic is hardly going to save the day!

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