car fell off jack
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so today my neighbor offered to paint my calipers for free so i said why not. first he jacked the front left wheel without using a stand, he kept it like that and i heard a lound bang, went out to check, . The jack wasn't positioned correctly , so one side fell and was sitting on the ground.i didnt see anything fall off. hopefully everything is OK but i am ____ed as hell. should i get it checked?
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use jack stands, their fairly cheap and a very important investment if you plan on working on your car at all. You don't wanna be under your car when the car falls off the jack.
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Originally Posted by jeetdialer
so today my neighbor offered to paint my calipers for free so i said why not. first he jacked the front left wheel without using a stand, he kept it like that and i heard a lound bang, went out to check, . The jack wasn't positioned correctly , so one side fell and was sitting on the ground.i didnt see anything fall off. hopefully everything is OK but i am ____ed as hell. should i get it checked?
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What is the proper way to use floor jacks so you dont mess up your car? Can you use one floor jack? or is it manditory that you use two? So you jack up the car up with a floor jack, then place the jack stand under the car, then lower the floor jack till the jackstands sit on the car?
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Originally Posted by brownbanana
use jack stands, their fairly cheap and a very important investment if you plan on working on your car at all. You don't wanna be under your car when the car falls off the jack.
Damaged wheels are better than a crushed head ANY day!
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Get it checked. It should be okay.
The same thing happened to my car. After an AutoX, we were putting the street wheels back on my car. I didn't have a real jack with me, so I used my friends xB's jack. I jacked up and changed three wheels. When I went to get water, my friend decided to change the last wheel for me. I came back to this:
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Apparently I didn't have the E-Brake set.
So the car rolled when he jacked it up. Four guys lifted the car up while one slid a real jack under it. We had to bend the brake shroud back with a lug wrench because it was against the rotor. It's fine though. I drove it for 3 hours back home the following day and have gone several thousand miles since with no problems. Though I did get an alignment done recently. My tC had pulled to the right since I first got it.
The same thing happened to my car. After an AutoX, we were putting the street wheels back on my car. I didn't have a real jack with me, so I used my friends xB's jack. I jacked up and changed three wheels. When I went to get water, my friend decided to change the last wheel for me. I came back to this:
![](http://www.deepsouthscions.com/gallery/albums/17apr05/normal_DSC01224.jpg)
![](http://www.deepsouthscions.com/gallery/albums/17apr05/normal_DSC01226.jpg)
Apparently I didn't have the E-Brake set.
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Originally Posted by Eiso
Thats scary ****! My heart would be so beaten if i see this happen to my car! Thats why I always let Professional do the stuff I dont know!
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