Lowered Pros with jacking problems?

[Devman]

Okay, having jacked up my car several times for various things, I've begun to wonder about lowering my car. I'm looking at Tokico HP Blues with Tein springs as the best setup for my pro5, but the drop is worrisome to me. My jacks have some trouble getting into/under my front jackpoints as it is and if I lower my car this will only get worse, correct? Is there some magic way I'm forgetting for jacking lowered cars?

Thanks,
Devman

 

[mountjonas]

get a low profile jack?

 

[Protege52003]

Is there some magic way I'm forgetting for jacking lowered cars

drive up on some pieces of wood or something? park your car, put some thing in front of all four tires, drive up on them, then try jacking? ghetto style....

-R

 

[MyZmZm]

Not sure about the states, but here in Canada, Costco sells a really good low-profile jack (goes down to 3 3/4 inches) for about $100. I know a few people with lowered Pros have this jack and it works great.

 

[peepsalot]

You just reminded me I need a new jack.
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93431
This thread has some good suggestions I think, you could just pick one listed with a very low profile.

 

[SP33D]

drive up on some pieces of wood or something? park your car, put some thing in front of all four tires, drive up on them, then try jacking? ghetto style....

-R

yea like a low profile ramp or something..

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drive onto it and then jack it up

 

[daKiNeP5]

Or if you don't have wood handy, you could jack up the side of the car using the stock jack just enough for the floor jack to fit under the jacking point.

 

[L8R]

^^^ what he said

 

[DE31]

yea like a low profile ramp or something..

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drive onto it and then jack it up

rally style, drive up on ramps(wrc).

 

[Katya4me]

I autox and had MSP struts w/ Sprint springs that gave a 2" drop and had to swap wheels every weekend. I've got Illuminas and GCs now and the car is sitting a little lower right now than it was. We picked up the $100 aluminum jack at Harbor Freight and it works great, 3 autoxes and a suspension swap in the past month and we used it for all of them.