I'd like to get some winter or all season tires mounted on my wheels. I haven't jacked my car up yet, but I know if you don't use the proper jack you'll bend the pinched metal strip under the car. Is this common on other cars? Would a tire place have adapters on their lifts to be able to lift the car without damaging the underside?

Common sense would say yes, they can do it, but I want to make sure because I'm paying good money for this car, and they couldn't give a rats ass about screwing it up.

Anyone know?

 

We have a lift at work, but we put the lift points on different places than where GM recommends for my car. I can't remember where exactly, but next time it's up on the lift I'll take pictures for you if you want.

 

Ive always lifted my car off the pinch welds. nothing has ever been damaged. Its safe to say that unless a complete moron is manning the controls of the lift, it will be safe.

 

jack on the a-arms. right on the pivot point is an awesome spot. in the rear jack on the rear cross member

 

You shouldn't use anything other than the scissor jack in the trunk on the pinch welds.



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any tire shop should be capable of raising your vehicle without damaging it. i work in a tire shop and lift probably 20 vehicles a day using different ifting points, one of which is the pinch rails and have never damaged a vehicle that wasnt a rusty piece of **** from the 80's

 

Most tire shops I've been to use a small hydraulic lift.

 

Pinch welds, there are marked spots on your side skirts.

 

I know where to lift the car guys...

I was asking if a shop could do it w/out damaging the car. Our jack is specially shaped to lift the pinch welds, I don't know if a lift has a similar shape or not :-P

Thanks for the input though!

 

all shops can lift a car without damaging the car. its all in how the operator sets it up. In other words yes, the tire shop can do it.

 

If gm dealers can manage to screw up lifting a sky/solstice then a tire shop will most likely drop your car off the lift

 

ok... i have lifted solstice's and never dropped any car off a lift. its like any other job, pay attention to what you are doing, and you will be fine, assuming you have the proper training, of course

 

I agree ..Just supervise them lifting it up and show them the right way if they don't know. if they don't like you supervising flip them the bird and leave..


You are the customer unless its freebie work

 

i work at a tire shop and i have a T/C i lift my car atleast once a week no problems. even on out tire lifts that pick up the car stright up there is nothing that could get dammaged

 

my ion's lowered and the lifts at school require me to use a floor jack to lift the rear end up so i can get the arms under the skirts with risers on the pads so they clear the skirts. when i let the car down i find some 2x4's and just back off after pulling out the lift arms.

the lifts at work are much easier-they clear under the skirts without a problem and we use hockey pucks so the skirts dont sit on the arms.

i use the pinch welds. i don't lift from the control arm mounts, except to lift the rear end up at school. i do not lift from the rear crossmember.

 

Yes, a shop can destroy a car on a lift.

My old Monte Carlos fenders were bent in so far that the doors hit them when opening. It's too bad because I babied that car so as to keep it. Not now. I used to go to a shop with a pit for oil changes. Until they dented my hood by closing it with the butt of thier hand and pretended I didn't se them do it.. So I moved onto another dealer, where they proptly destroyed the car.

My new Solstice gxp now has a 3 inch round dent in my fender. From the first time it was on a lift. Woohoo.

I once saw my Cavalier dangling from the hoist at a 30 degree angle.

The damage from an improperly lifted car sometimes shows later in the cars life. While a car can leave the shop in apparently good order, the rust that was started by exposed metal with haunt you. The ghost will likely come back in the early AM when changing a tire on the side of the highway. Having your car drop on the ground with the jack still under can be an issue.

I can honestly say, I am fed up with the damage my cars get everytime it goes to the dealer. The last time, I guess they had a fun joyride. I think they didn't realise I check the milleage every time now.

All done at your friendly GM Goodwrench shops.

I suggest taking bed liner and coatiing the jacking points on the car. At least it will protect it a little and hopefully hold off the rust for a little while.

 

well the dealer you go to has very special people working there!!! in 2 years, i have worked with many many many retards, that can barely tie their own shoes, and they have never fucked up a car on a hoist, except for when there is a malfunction with the hoist, which isnt the operators fault

 

That was 4 different dealers.

Tools with tools.

The funny thing is, a dealer I favored has an young autistic man working there. At first, when I was forced to give him my keys, I was not impressed. But I soon realised that he was particular and extremely careful. The only one that managed to take care of my car as I do.

 

Odds are you will be called into the service bay to a scene like this:







Deal with the bent pinch welds, it happens to every car. No one can see them, but you...

 

Holy freaking crap you have got to be sheeting me holmes !!!