Comment on Why isnt there an aftermarket way to bulk up pinch welds jack points on cars
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because it’s usually pointless to anyone that knows how to work on cars. I use the frame. Because it’s where I’m going to put a jack and it’s faster. The only one I use is on one side of my Camaro to lift it high enough to use the frame on the other side because it’s lowered. They may get damaged but it’s only use is the side of the road to change a tire.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Unibody cars, as in, the ones with the pinch welds under discussion, don’t have a frame
The sheet metal is the frame.
Which, in my opinion, is why nobody gives a shit-any car built like that was built to be disposable fucking garbage.
lemming741@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There’s almost always a subframe, and where it bolts to the car is my go-to jack point. Bolt #2 would get it.
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DempstersBox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This must be on modern monstrosities, I’ve literally never encountered this.
The newest vehicle I’ve ever had was a 95, and I am entirely unimpressed with anything made before 93
anachronist@midwest.social 1 week ago
Unibodies do have a frame it’s just not a completely separate assembly like a ladder frame.
As others have said there are lots of places to jack a car. Nobody uses the flange on the rocker panels unless they’re trying to change a tire roadside with the emergency jack.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Exactly, jack points are an afterthought, it might have to be lifted for changing a flat, but otherwise it’ll be on a lift platform at a shop, you’re not hoisting it on Jacks at home to do work on it.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean, yeah I am. I don’t trust a shop to do it