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Your safety is of paramount importance, and should be your number one priority when working on your car. Common sense will carry you a long way, but these are some tips to remember when exercising proper use of jack stands:
1. Never trust your floor jack to support your car by itself. Always use jack stands.
First and foremost, a floor jack consists of moving parts that can wear over time. A jack can appear to function normally, but due to the nature of hydraulics, a well worn jack can slowly bleed off pressure and lower the car. As such, it is always good practice to lower your car onto your jack stands and not rely on your floor jack at all to hold your car up. Instead, rely on the floor jack to do the lifting, but let the jack stands do the holding.
2. Use one jack stand per wheel that is not touching the ground.
For every wheel that’s in the air, it is recommended that you use at least one jack stand. To maintain stability, you always want your car to have four points of contact with the ground or with a jackstand. One thing to look out for is that sometimes, depending on where you jack your car up from, you can have a wheel that is visibly contacting the ground but the car’s weight is not firmly planted on it. You will know this is the case because the suspension on that corner of the car will be decompressed. In cases such as these, it is recommended that you adjust your lifting strategy so that the wheel is firmly planted on the ground or so you can lower your car onto a jack stand in that corner as well as the one you are working on.
3. Position jack stands using proper lift points on your car.
It is important to be aware that there are specific points on your car where it is safe to place a jack stand. These are typically referred to as jack points, jacking points, or lift points and are reinforced to be able to hold the weight of your car. These locations can typically be found in your owners manual. If you have lost your owners manual or bought a used car that came without one, you can also do a quick online search or post on a forum related to your make and model of car. Failing to use proper lift points can cause damage to your car or can cause your car to fall.
4. Use jacks that have sufficient capacity to hold your car.
Jack stands are typically rated to a certain capacity which is most often conveyed in tons. Due to weight, a Hummer H2 is or BMW 7 series is going to require a heavier duty jack stand than a Toyota Prius or Honda Civic. You can typically determine the weight of your car using your owners manual or searching the internet. A good rule of thumb is to buy jack stands that can hold the weight of your car individually. As an example, if you have a 4000 pound (2 ton) Mercedes S55, each jack stand should be able to hold 2 tons. This way you have some safety factor built in should your car not have perfectly even weight distribution. Also remember, jack stand capacity is rated individually, not per pair so if you buy a set of 2 ton jack stands, each stand is rated to 2 tons.
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