can never quite get it right

[dieselnutjob]

I bought my 607 a couple of years ago because I suddenly needed an automatic, and really it needed to be a diesel. I love my pugs and frankly old 607s are a cheap.

 

At least I thought I wouldn't have bodywork issues as it's galvanized and clearly had never been crashed (I can always tell).

 

Then I discovered that one of the jacking points is flattened and on straightening it I found that the sill had pulled away from the floor and was no longer strong enough to jack up the car due to the metal distortion.

 

So I got that welded up so now it's no longer galvanized there. The guy painted it with Shutz so the underside of the sill is now black instead of body coloured, but I guess you have to get under the car to see the difference.

 

Today I pulled various plugs out and bits of trim off to spray Dynax S50 inside the sill to cover the welding inside the sill, and the little brass nozzle that makes the wax spray in all directions blew off inside the sill ... and I suppose will stay in there forever now

 

It seems that I am incapable of keeping a car as it should be

[mouseflakes]

It seems that I am incapable of keeping a car as it should be

A car should be used - which is how those little imperfections make it look. Don't worry.

 

D'you see what I did there? Crap, wasn't it?

 

XMs have those ridiculous jacking points that fold over. I guess it's the 'modern way'. It seems most tyre centres just assume they can jack everything on the sill lip - my R30's sill got knackered like that - but if they took the time to look, the 30 has a sodding great plate behind the sill that's made for the job.

[Pete-M]

My SD1 has been jacked by a muppet at some point. There's a seam where the wing joins the sill which you're really not meant to jack 'em up on... You jack an SD1 by little things on the bumpers...

[dieselnutjob]

any reason I shouldn't jack up the back end with a trolley jack under the towbar?

it's dead convenient as it lifts both sides at the same time

at the front it's quite easy to get a trolley jack under the front subframe but the tyre guys don't bother unless I watch them like a hawk

[Pete-M]

any reason I shouldn't jack up the back end with a trolley jack under the towbar?

I wouldn't. Towbars are designed to pull things, not lift the car. Jacking by the towbar means you're putting a lot of weight in a direction that it's not designed to handle.

 

Almost every owners handbook mentions that you're not meant to put more than 50 or 75kg weight pressing down on the towbar. Lifting the car by it is putting closer to 750kg through it in an equally unintended direction.