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[Sir Tigger KC]

No different to the Omega then..... 

Isn't that where the outer and inner sills meet and are welded together? 

[tunnie]

Omega has the big fat flat ish area to wack the jack under, it's all the plastic underneath CC can't see anything.

[Nick W]

How long does it take you to do something that is actually complicated?
This sort of paralysis by analysis is one of the downsides of forums.


I'm tempted to go and make a pad for my jack now, as the edges smudge the underseal on (the narrow and easily bent) chassis rails.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Omega has the big fat flat ish area to wack the jack under, it's all the plastic underneath CC can't see anything.

I jack mine on the sill and pray it's not rotten! 

Many moons ago I had a puncture on my Dad's Cortina Mk4 Estate and just as I put the spare on, the sill started to give and the car slowly settled back to earth!      The Old Man wasn't too happy with the amount of filler that was revealed in the very rotten sill! 

[Mr Gav]

If you want to make a jack pad then ice hockey puck`s are cheap enough on ebay 

[Doctor Gollum]

Pm your address and I will send you a suitably shaped length of 2"x4"

[TheBoy]

When they assemble it, they never think about the DIY'er

tunnie, you're completely missing the point. It has nothing to do with DIY. It should (dangerous assumption with any german marque, I know) be designed so it can be readily serviced, even their own dealers need to lift it on standard lifts.  So it will have lifting points, which are unlikely to be the jacking points mentioned in the glovebox manual.  Mr VW Dealer plonker isn't going to lift it up on the jack in the boot...

[Nick W]

Scrap piece of decking; mark out a 49mm circle, hack the corners off with a saw, and round the edges on a sander(careful work with a jigsaw would combine the last two) until it fits in the jack cup:





I only had thin rubber sheet so I stuck on two discs with contact adhesive.
That took 15minutes, half of which was waiting for the glue to go off.

[aaronjb]

When they assemble it, they never think about the DIY'er

tunnie, you're completely missing the point. It has nothing to do with DIY. It should (dangerous assumption with any german marque, I know) be designed so it can be readily serviced, even their own dealers need to lift it on standard lifts.  So it will have lifting points, which are unlikely to be the jacking points mentioned in the glovebox manual.  Mr VW Dealer plonker isn't going to lift it up on the jack in the boot...

The Bentley manual (not the car manufacturer, the people who produce the aftermarket service guides considered the bible for BMW et al) lists the lifting points (for a 2-post lift) as the knife edge sill, from what I can find..

[tunnie]

Scrap piece of decking; mark out a 49mm circle, hack the corners off with a saw, and round the edges on a sander(careful work with a jigsaw would combine the last two) until it fits in the jack cup:





I only had thin rubber sheet so I stuck on two discs with contact adhesive.
That took 15minutes, half of which was waiting for the glue to go off.

Thanks, yes, I'm looking into what I have in the garage that can do similar. I have a load of 2x4" in the garage that would do that job, not sure what I've got to 'soften it, shall see.

[tunnie]

When they assemble it, they never think about the DIY'er

tunnie, you're completely missing the point. It has nothing to do with DIY. It should (dangerous assumption with any german marque, I know) be designed so it can be readily serviced, even their own dealers need to lift it on standard lifts.  So it will have lifting points, which are unlikely to be the jacking points mentioned in the glovebox manual.  Mr VW Dealer plonker isn't going to lift it up on the jack in the boot...

Think you are missing the point 

Yes, it has lift points. But there are only 1 set, the set defined in the manual are the ones a garage uses with it's lift. Which is fine for that lift once every 2 years, but not at home on a fairly regular basis. See here...



That thin sill strip, is the only jacking point... which you do right at the end.



Hence looking for either a home made pad to 'soften' the impact to said rail, or these other bung replacements which offer another lift point

[Nick W]

Thanks, yes, I'm looking into what I have in the garage that can do similar. I have a load of 2x4" in the garage that would do that job, not sure what I've got to 'soften it, shall see.

Don't worry about it: wooden blocks are going to be good enough. Make a couple, and duct tape the spare one to the jack.

[TheBoy]

Well, that makes me feel vindicated for stating VAG would NOT be on my replacement cars list (even if that was for other reasons)

[TheBoy]

That really is crap 

[tunnie]

That really is crap 

You might want to take a look at others then, when walking around car dealerships, I often got on the ground to look underneath. It's fairly standard now 

Thanks, yes, I'm looking into what I have in the garage that can do similar. I have a load of 2x4" in the garage that would do that job, not sure what I've got to 'soften it, shall see.

Don't worry about it: wooden blocks are going to be good enough. Make a couple, and duct tape the spare one to the jack.

Cheers.