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Charlie Dog 
Yardie 
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 Topic: T5 Jacking PointsPosted: 07 Jan 20 at 19:26 |
The pic shows where our local tyre fitters lifted our T5 in order to fit new tyres. They used trolley jacks however. Tyre fitters rarely, if ever, lift on jacking points. They tell me if you use a trolley jack on jacking point you run the risk that the trolley jack will stay still, and the pinch / jacking point will bend. Not nice
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Posted: 08 Jan 20 at 21:54 |
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I've used a trolley jack on mine a few times when working on it, and the jack(on wheels, on concrete) always moves
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Vanorak 
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Posted: 09 Jan 20 at 07:13 |
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Me too, hundreds of times. I reckon there is more chance of a jack slipping off if the wheels don't move than any pinching. You do have to careful that the jack saddle is only on the jacking point so no part of it is touching the sill where it could mark it.
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Charlie Dog
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Posted: 09 Jan 20 at 08:26 |
How smooth is the surface of your concrete please Yardie?
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Posted: 09 Jan 20 at 08:29 |
What do you mean by "Pinching" please T5?
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Charlie Dog
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Posted: 09 Jan 20 at 13:00 |
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I don't know if Yardie and T5 TDi
are telling me I'm wrong. or telling they have been lucky :o) or, perhaps, I've been unlucky :-( Not that it matters much either way. Many years ago, some smart boffin wrote a Law that explains what goes on when your cill pulls your jack forward. An amusing explanation of what goes on when you apply a force to summat here. |
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