01-16-2024, 10:24 PM | #23 |
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I use the center jacking point to go all the way up with my jack. That’s not the issue here.
If you had wheels chocked (and I’m assuming you were in Park with parking brake set) then how did your car roll? When I use chocks i pick a wheel least likely to be lifted/moved/strained (a rear tire for a front center lift) and I put one chock in front of it and another behind the same tire. What happened in your case? The chock should have worked, same with Park locking the trans, and the EPB being engaged…
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01-16-2024, 10:45 PM | #24 | |
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It seemed as if none of the things that should have kept the car from rolling forward did. Like I said, I've never seen it before in my life, but I have also never jacked a car up so that the jack's wheels are inline with the car's... perhaps I am exaggerating how much it was moving, since it couldn't have moved physically past where the chock was, at least not in a straight line... but it was rolling. The car and the jack, no me gusta. |
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01-17-2024, 07:29 AM | #25 |
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Someone would make a killing if they sold a 16 piece metric socket set that included the usual 12-24, plus three extra 10s
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01-20-2024, 10:35 PM | #26 | |
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01-21-2024, 10:40 AM | #27 |
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I left a bit I dropped in there. It is what it is.
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02-20-2024, 11:08 AM | #28 | |
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When you lift the car from the center jack point, like you said, the jack is "inline" with the vehicle. When the lift is high, the jack need to move towards the car when you are jacking up (due to the way floor jacks are designed) and move backwards when being lowered. Maybe only the jack was moving and in a panic, you thought the car was moving as well? |
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