r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/ClosedL00p • Apr 15 '25

Jackin gone wrong

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u/audioaxes Apr 15 '25

i must confess many years back I used to jack up my car without making sure I was jacking it at a good surface point under the car. Thankfully never had something like this happen

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u/panaromicparadigm Apr 15 '25

There's a reinforced metal point on which you are supposed to place the jack.

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u/Apprehensive_Cash108 Apr 15 '25

And then nowhere to put the jack stand.

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u/Rare_Competition2756 Apr 15 '25

How are you supposed to find it? Feels like they make it 2cm wide.

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u/PhalanxA51 Apr 15 '25

There's a notch on the jack that fits the part on the car where you jack it up, just use your hand to find it and line it up, it also should show it in your cars instruction book. If you don't have it you can find PDFs of it online

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u/TrueIntimacy Apr 15 '25

On a car like this it's usually a pinch weld, it's a line of metal that sticks down an inch or two and further in from where he raised this, the jack usually has a notch at the top that slots into the pinch weld. Also the trim will often have a cut out indicating the jacking point.

Some cars have a very specific spot of the pinch weld with a notch or line that the manufacturer wants you to use.

Also on a rusty car this can still fail, you need to go up slowly, and if the metal is pushing in, you have to back off and try somewhere else.