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Offline Cossieian

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Jacking car up
« on: 19 December 2015, 13:42 »
Guys wondered where's the best place to jack up the MK7 using a trolley jack??

I know the manual says to use the points on the sills but I'm not going to do that :sick:

Any advice would be great as I'm looking to put my wheels on today if possible :smiley:
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Offline Bungleaio

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Re: Jacking car up
« Reply #1 on: 19 December 2015, 14:02 »
Using the a3 jacking bits would be the best but you will need to order parts for that so I wood just use a hockey puck on the welds.
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Offline seabrook132

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Re: Jacking car up
« Reply #2 on: 19 December 2015, 14:42 »
Use a slotted hockey puck or similar on the sill jacking points is the best way.

As far as I know the A3 jacking points mod is not recommended for use with trolley jacks and is designed to be used with a four post lift only.
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Offline JB GTI

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Re: Jacking car up
« Reply #3 on: 19 December 2015, 15:33 »
It's certainly more difficult with the side skirts on the R
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Offline andrewparker

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Re: Jacking car up
« Reply #4 on: 19 December 2015, 15:44 »
Every Golf I've had I've used the points on the sills. Why wouldn't you want to use them?
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Offline Cossieian

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Re: Jacking car up
« Reply #5 on: 19 December 2015, 19:13 »
Thanks guys, decided to go ahead and use the jack provided and the suggested jacking points. Never used this method before as I was always afraid of damaging the sills, but I was very very careful with lots of cloths etc and turned out perfect job in the end, all in all only took about an hour to change all 4 wheels :smiley:
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