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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 05:14 PM
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Default Re: Looking for a spare OEM Jack

Originally Posted by Crossfire725
Sorry if that was hard to understand. I've been sick for 5 days. Havnt left my bed. Lol. Wat I was trying to say is, that its very risky id say to jack the car up on both sides with thoose little wimpy jacks. There for changeing one tire at a time. Have I done wat ur trying to do, yes but I've had my car fall. So all I'm trying to tell you is go out an buy ur self a decent jack. U can support the rear end from the middle an get both tires off the ground. Much faster jacking up as well and u can use it on any car. If u still are interested in another jack I may have one for a jeep patriot laying around with will do the same thing as our oem one
No worries, I understood your post. It was the first one of this thread that scared me. These OEM jacks will not support a car if you try to raise more than one corner with two of them. They have no side to side strength and the car will fall off the jacks. Even a floor jack on one side and the factory jack on the other side is unsafe as the floor jack is on wheels and will allow the car to move and fall of the jack. You need to use jack stands. I perfer to use a floor jack to lift the car and jack stands to keep it up while I am under it.