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      08-11-2012, 09:04 AM   #10
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Drives: 07 AW Z4C 3.0Si
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Originally Posted by StickMon View Post
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.
Once upon a time someone posted about using hockey pucks with a channel / groove cut down the center to use on the pinch welds with favorable results. Inexpensive, easy to use, and gentle on the car.
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