How to Safely Support Your Car on Axle Stands
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- The MicksGarage.com Experts demonstrates How to Safely Support Your Car on Axle Stands.
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Thank you for the informative video, especially in showing video from underneath the car - too many others just tell you to find a safe looking spot, yours actually shows a spot. Thanks
nice tune man, reminds me of raving in non lockdown days
Inspector Norse is such a track!
Once again the reinforced point is mentioned, and one is shown, but this needs to be gone over in detail, with multiple examples of safe reinforced points, he points out a piece of the bodywork that looks similar to many other parts under the car, what makes it reinforced? It's not obvious to somebody who's not a mechanic, I still don't know what the reinforced points on my car look like
He says that you have to check your car manual to see where are the jack points
I actually didn't like where he put that axle stand, it didn't look that reinforced to me. I'd look for something like a chassis rail etc.
@@Jez2008UK i wouldn't place it there either.
@@umad9593 He then proceeds to put the stand somewhere else, a "reinforced point", as clearly there wasn't room for the jack and stand on the designated jack point. Skipping over the vital information as to what makes this a suitable point.
Respectfully if you don't know what reinforced structual points look like on a car perhaps you should not be trying to do anything along these repair lines until you have acquired the knowledge to define exactly what you are supposed to be looking for!! Most definitely you should never be working on your own but always have someone with you purely for the safety factor involved!! Golden rule, NEVER, NEVER use a normal car jack to get physically under a car. If you intend to go under a car you must use proper axle stands & a proper hydraulic car jack & again not the simple wind-up jack that came with your vehicle as it is only designed for changing a wheel & definitely not for carrying out any form of actual servicing!! Your personal safety is the No: 1 priority of course!! Understandee de englishee???
Clear simple instructions ~ Well explained ~ Thanks.
good video but you forgot to show where to place the wood blocks.
Exhaust tip sanding/cleaning , GTI tips come up very well
How do I get out from underneath the car if it falls on me ?
Underrated comment LOL
nobody talks about that...because for some their car is worth more than their lives.
Have you ever seen “Ghost” ? You will just rise up from underneath it..
I think, if you are still intact, your best option is to scream your lungs out and hope someone comes to help you.
Nice. That wheel tip I'll certainly be using. Ta.
Are the rear axles themselves a safe place to use jack stands (axle stands)? If you place them far apart near the wheels?
I would say yes, as long as it is a stand at either end and definitely not all the weight on a jack or stand in the middle of the beam
How would I do this for the front on a mk5 golf need both up at same time
Thank you
Ideally the axle stands need to be on the jacking points and not on some other part of the car. This is how sills and subframes are damaged.
@user-pv2oe1bq1splenty of room near the jack point, most of the edge is reinforced, not just the indicated jack point.
Not on any of my cars, the reinforced section of pinch weld is only about 3 inches long.@@null643
Very clean and tite vid thanks bro .
Nice work
Mick, great DIY videos. How about a video on flushing and replacing the coolant please.
The front
Todd Terje!
not confident after watching this lol
Should really insert the locking clip on the axle stands.
grim reaper he did. Or at least mentioned it
I guess he failed to see the jacking point under the car yet sees the screws. Plus lots of mechanics before him already ruined that bodywork lip it seems as demonstrated by bent metal and rust. 🤦♂️
Also the mechanic fails to read the warning label saying in bold read letters "CAUTION" on the axle stands telling him to bend the tab. 😅
Mick, I was jacking up my '09 GTI yesterday (particularly rear passenger side). While jacking up, a loud "POP!" happened and it really startled me given my proximity to the car. Has that ever happened to you? Or can you explain at all what the hell that was? I appreciate any help, my good sir.
Can you do a video on replacing dsg fluid? GTI
That trolley jack 🤣🤣🤣
Isn't it the one Michelin make? haha
Jacking up front section?
A jack fits nicely underneath the control arm bushing. That's where I always put mine. I try to avoid jacking my rocker panels as much as I can.
Check this forum out:
www.golfmkv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64796
and a front???
I have much longer reinforced factory jack points at the front than at the back, and it actually fits both jack and jack stand at the same time.
WOW EXPERTS?? Really? unbelievable... When jacking the car up:
1. must be on level surface
2. put wheel chocks around wheel that will be on the ground
3. car MUST in NEUTRAL and E-brake OFF. if you dont do this there will be lateral stress on the jack and its very dangerous!!!
4. now you can jack up.
@@omarandres5129 its not MY reason, that's how its done at toyota, but you can also walk to any mechanic shop and ask, car is always jacked up in neutral!!
@Danny ghafur that must be written on the emergency road side jack that comes with a car. This is not a rocket science, its common sense, when jacking the car you wanna prevent it from rolling away on you and so you use wheel chocks.
now most cars dont come with wheel chocks but the emergency spare tire jacks its designed so that the car moves vertically with no lateral force on the jack. The alligator jack used in the video is best used with wheel chocks not E-brakes.
@@omarandres5129 If you're doing the rear axel and changing the pads you need to chock the front wheels else the car will roll off
@@Amer-yl4gb howis the car going to roll with the handbrake on?
@@thoughtcriminal5655The handbrake works on the rears only.