HELP ASAP Rear Jackstand placement

Minishotglass

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03.5 mp5 5spd
EDIT: This is what the service manual says:

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I went ahead and took a bunch of pics of the underbody and think I found what the manual is referring to. Can someone please confirm that this is the absolute safe place to put the jackstands for the rear if I have my car up on four jackstands? If not please circle the correct rear jackstand point for me.....

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I jack the center of the rear crossmember and place the jackstands on either side of the crossmember. Works well. Key is to NOT use body or non-structural parts.
 
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Center the jack on the weld pinch. Try to avoid putting too much pressure on the plastic.
 

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Looks like you should be good; as P-Funk! mentioned, the key is to not put the stand under anything like a body panel or even under a suspsension component (I've seen people put them under lower control/a-arms and the like). Any point on the frame is good.

As for the pinch weld, I've seen that "collapse" way too many times on countless cars in the past. If you're all getting by like that, that's great...you've had better luck than others I've seen.

Dimitrios
 

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