Jacking points

**AxeMurderer** · 04-10-2011,07:22 PM

I had to change a wheel yesterday due to the tyre being rather more worn than I'm happy with. My car has specially shaped rubber/plastic parts under the sill to take the jack. But it only seems to have them at the rear. Should there be some at the front too?

**joshA6** · 05-10-2011,10:17 AM

No. If you look at the sills, there is a little triangle pressed into them (look carefully). Thats the part of the sill that is reccomended as a jacking point.

**Guest 2** · 05-10-2011,10:59 AM

x2 on Josh's reply. there's points where it should be jacked at.

On my old Mondeo I placed the jack in the wrong place and ended up piercing a jack sized hole through the floor! It was going to scrap anyways so didn't matter.

**AxeMurderer** · 05-10-2011,03:31 PM

I couldn't spot the triangles no matter how hard I looked. At the rear there are definite plastic/rubber jacking points - do your cars have these? And if they do, do they have them at the front as well? My (Audi) jack has a barrel shape that contacts the car when jacking; the jacking point at the rear has a perfectly matching place for the barrel but there isn't one at the front on either side. Would some pictures help?

**coolraj003** · 05-10-2011,05:59 PM

I have had a look at mine and honestly could not make heads or tails of it. If you do put some pictures on it might help. I will double check during proper daylight as it is getting a lil dark here to spot anything now.

Raj

**man le-mans** · 06-10-2011,08:46 PM

I had them jacking points on my 57 plate on all four corners of the sills. I have just checked on my 11 plate and that has them on all four corners aswell. Hope that helps

**Guest 2** · 06-10-2011,09:11 PM

I'll try and take some pictures tomorrow on my 57 plate. The car is extremely dirty atm so Ill sort it out before taking them.

**joshA6** · 07-10-2011,09:07 AM

X2.. though it is covered in the handbook

**AxeMurderer** · 07-10-2011,03:04 PM

I read the handbook before starting. That showed me roughly where the 'triangles' indicating the jacking points ought to be. But I couldn't see them. Anyway, the rear jacking points are obvious, on my car. But it looks to me as though the front ones are not there, or at least the plastic/rubber bits are not present.

Let's see if some pictures would help... (numpty picture linking skills coming up!)

Jack:

Rear jacking point (looking backwards towards rear wheel):

Front jacking point (looking backwards from roughly the wheel arch):