Jack Pads - which ones ?

[jpaul]

[ Oh - you know about bicycles do you ? I'll pick your brain next time
I spent 4 hours today transplanting a new frame into my daily - getting the pedals off of the crank was a plus-gas/torch .. I think the oven finally cracked it - affair ]

No the Chinese cars are made of cream cheese (it's a well known expression) pre-dating Wallace - pretty sure I'd have broken lesser quality/chinesium spanners than the real facoms I used today,
buy cheap buy twice

my older bmw had jack-pads incorporated , I guess the manufacturers used to have half an eye on the home DIYer, now cheaper construction techniques with pinch welds
make a better quality support necessary, for the throw-away car.

commercial garage obviously has robust swing arm type lift, versus diy with trolley+axle stand combo which need something sympathetic with the car chassis.

 

[GravyMonster]

Why have you started using Angus Higgins' bracket system?

 

[d_brennen]

I dislike pinch weld jack points, it's a right pain in the rear. The savings they make for 50p worth of steel plate. I have a slotted jack but even that likes to crack the paint on the joint

 

[Dg834man]

I dislike pinch weld jack points, it's a right pain in the rear.

Entirely depends on how its done, my old focus had pinch weld jacking points which were just a extra layer of sheet steel total crap jacks destroyed them my saxo has pinch weld jacking points as well but they threw in some 3mm plate, my jack had a pad on it but for jacks i fold up a offcut of carpet to sit on my axle stands.

 

[jpaul]

good idea for axle stand solution - have some offcuts with strong hessian back also used for relatively heavy living room furniture.

 

[Simon]

The issue is mainly avoided with a trolley jack with wheels that can roll. Jack up anything on a trolley jack that sinks into tarmac and it will knacker the sills anyway.

 

[gort]

I use these for my jack stands. Seems to work OK. £3-4 IIRC.

 

[Finglonga]

Got mine from Temu, it was under £3 and like an idiot I got 2 for my Sealey Trolley Jack because they were made of Chinesium. A year on and the first one is still perfect though so would recommend.

 

[jpaul]

meet the new jack -
might have been nicer with stealth poly wheels, but the aluminium component/ reduced weight and more secure larger saddle compensate.

 

[Simon]

That’s not a jack pad ? Which one did you buy. How did u buy the jack with out research post

Great jack by the way. Mines great

 

[Diddums]

Hang on, so you spent over a week banging on about jack pads and instead just bought a whole jack?


I shouldn't be mean though, you clearly overcame your cripping indecision anxiety, so congrats

 

[IC3]

meet the new jack -
might have been nicer with stealth poly wheels, but the aluminium component/ reduced weight and more secure larger saddle compensate.

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Is that Motamec MT25ALBLK? Winntec has some nice quality alloy jacks with poly wheels.

 

[jpaul]

It was on a yellow sticker at Halfords their aluminium 2T/47cm @135,

but you are right the motamec looks similar https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235122764241 - I'll have to compare the side design

 

[jpaul]

you didn't think it would be that easy did you ?

hadn't thought that the pinch weld is so short that there isn't space to jack on it and put a stand there too.
(after I cut down a jack pad for the tripod)

 

[bloodiedathame]

*slowly backs out of thread*

 

[Simon]

Indeed, imagine something so simple being so hard.

 

[JonRGV250]

Simple being the correct description.

 

[jpaul]

*slowly backs out of thread*

if that's a film quote I don't recognise it ..

none of these problems with my old bmw , and could see a tonne of unshielded underbody to jack it, or tripod it.

 

[Armageus]

if that's a film quote I don't recognise it ..

 

[jpaul]

some folks think there is enough space side by side , no one on web seems to have found good jacking points elsewhere on B9 ... so it is a thing, despite the disbelievers(non audi owners)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Audi/comments/1f8gqtx/jack_stand_points_for_b9_a4a5s4s5/

cool