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Title: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: benmanc on 21 June 2014, 15:31
I am jacking car and maxing jack out and it barely lets the lowest settings on axle stands go under.

How do I overcome this by using same jack?

To get to the next pin on stands?
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: scarr89 on 21 June 2014, 16:34
Put some wood on the jack first.

Get some small ramps/pieces of wood for your car to drive onto first.

Get a better jack or find a second.

Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: benmanc on 21 June 2014, 16:43
Put wood under jack?

One piece or one each end of jack?
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: SI74 on 21 June 2014, 19:04
What sort of jack do you heave? By the sounds of it you need to get a better one.

When you say each end what do you mean?   He said on the jack mate not under it,  what he is getting at is to put a bit of wood on part you would normally put against the car giving the more height.  Sort of like a spacer.
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: Dalo Harkin on 23 June 2014, 13:19
Put wood under jack?

Is this guy still alive  :shocked:
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 23 June 2014, 14:46
get a better jack. mine can raise the car to heights where i wouldnt even want to get under it because the angle of the car looks so unsafe to be supported by a jack and looks like its going to slide out.
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: Chris. on 23 June 2014, 22:47
trolley jack will get a car fairly damn high.
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: benmanc on 24 June 2014, 07:51
I have a trolley jack but it only raises it 33cm
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: benmanc on 24 June 2014, 07:52
One of those red ones
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: Gti_Jamo on 24 June 2014, 11:32
Blocks of wood or a bigger trolley jack. I have one that raises a car 4ft.
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: Dalo Harkin on 24 June 2014, 12:14
A Halfords jobbie is the smaller trolley jack, the large trolley jacks for trucks and things can raise the car about 4-5ft off the ground
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: Jarrold06 on 24 June 2014, 12:19
Get a fork lift lol bigger jack or blocks of wood under the one you got
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: Dalo Harkin on 24 June 2014, 12:24
I honestly cant think of any work you can do which you would need anything more than a small trolley jack to do
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: 1.8Tgolf_Chris on 24 June 2014, 12:42
I honestly cant think of any work you can do which you would need anything more than a small trolley jack to do

fitting exhaust id say, its not really high enough to have safe access, And in my case i cant use a creeper because of my gravel driveway  :grin:
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: benmanc on 24 June 2014, 14:28
I honestly cant think of any work you can do which you would need anything more than a small trolley jack to do

Normal jobs but with more space.
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: matty james on 24 June 2014, 15:31
hell , whats sooo urgent about how to jack a car up higher ,get a bigger jack or get derran brown to levitate it. :grin:
Title: Re: URGENT. how can I jack my car higher?
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 24 June 2014, 16:50
iv only ever done work on my car with it on the first pin of axle stands anyway. more than enough room....