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Originally Posted by NRGBalanced
If you use an adapter (something like a puck), it's not a problem to lift the car from somewhere other than the factory jack points? I figured I'd punch through some soft part of the floor panel jacking it up from the middle.
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Some cars you might be ok to jack in the middle of the car on the pinch welds, but some cars may start to deform if all the weight of one side of the car is in the middle. Since the pinch welds are reinforced at the jack points, and most cars are weight biased towards the front end, I just jack at the front jack point, and the whole side of the car can be lifted by just jacking at the front jack point, no need to jack in the middle of the car. My lightweight aluminum Harbor Freight jacks don't lift all that terribly high, but are still enough to lift one side of the car at a time. I have heard of people using a 2'-3' section of 2x4 and cutting a slot in the middle to fit around the pinch weld and using that in the middle since it would help distribute the weight better, but have never tried it myself.