Contrary to popular wisdom, you can jack the car by the pinch weld right under the side view mirror and put jack stands under the jacking points.
I replaced my jack's pad with a 1' slice of 2x4 to spread the weight, and I slip a 1/8" think piece of wood between the door sill cover and the pinch weld to take up the gap and not slice the sill cover with the pinch weld.
I use standard jack stands with 2" pieces of 1x2 to adapt to the jack pads.
Now that I've written it out it sounds more complicated than it really is. I can throw it up on 4 stands safely in about 5 minutes.
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