The manual made me laugh.

[Hawaiian]

Page 240 bullet point 2,

"do not use the jack that was supplied with your vehicle."

Uhh? Thanks for giving me a jack that = dead weight.

[Tomzilla]

what is it in context to?

[Hawaiian]

Jacking up your vehicle.

[Guff]

Well, it is considered an "Emergency Jack" so you technically shouldn't use it whenever possible...

[eriktherod]

I had to re-read that part a few times in the manual to understand what it means.

When jacking the car (using a floor jack), you should use the front or rear locations. The front is the center of some cross-member bar piece and the rear is the differential case. This is for when you plan on working on the car, jack stands should be placed on the frame rails underneath the door area (there are notches near the front and rear fenders). Do not jack the car up using the frame rails if you are using a floor jack. Also, do not put the jack stands in any other location except the frame rails!

Now, the jack that comes with the car is a scissor jack and is used for replacing a tire with the spare donut in dire situations. The scissor jack should not be used on the front or rear locations and should be used on the frame rails. Also, as the manual states, if you need to replace a rear tire, you should move the good tire from the same side (left/right) to the rear and then replace the front one with the donut. You don't want a donut on the power wheels if you can avoid it.

So, the manual is saying don't use the scissor jack in the front/rear locations it is specifying because that is for using a floor jack.

[Jeff Lange]

As eriktherod mentioned, different lift points are meant for different types of jacks/lifts.



Jeff

[Hawaiian]

No doubt I agree with erik, I was just amused by the wording in the owners manual. It gave the appearance that they were covering their behinds with legal jargon, much like q-tips warn against using them to clean your ears.

[eriktherod]

Oh.. there are plenty of places in the manual that I laughed. Namely in airbag deployment and warnings on storing things in the car.

The best are the warnings against canned drinks, as they can explode from heat expansion and spray everywhere, causing an electrical malfunction/fire. That, and not to store glasses as the lens could magnify the sunlight and cause a fire/explosion. While true.. it would take some extreme circumstances.

[7thgear]

Originally Posted by eriktherod

Oh.. there are plenty of places in the manual that I laughed. Namely in airbag deployment and warnings on storing things in the car.

The best are the warnings against canned drinks, as they can explode from heat expansion and spray everywhere, causing an electrical malfunction/fire. That, and not to store glasses as the lens could magnify the sunlight and cause a fire/explosion. While true.. it would take some extreme circumstances.

i bet some hillbilly was frying ants in the back of his pickup truck and had the haybail catch fire then blamed GM or whatever that his truck was spontenously engulfed in flames due to an obvious manufacturing defect; and ever since then they put crap like that in the manual.

[trackmagic]

Adding this was probably the manual hangup at delivery

[OrbitalEllipses]

Originally Posted by Guff

Well, it is considered an "Emergency Jack" so you technically shouldn't use it whenever possible...

Had the one that came with my WRX fail. No one was under the car, but it coulda been a real bad day for me.

[taosracer]

From pg.214 Vehicle stability control (VSC) SPORT mode


Your vehicle is equipped with two types of control modes to accommodate
various driving preferences. The control modes can be
selected with the “VSC SPORT” switch. Normal mode allows secure
and smooth normal driving. When the switch is pressed, Vehicle stability
control (VSC) SPORT mode is activated. Control characteristics
such as the Vehicle stability control (VSC) and TRAC are adjusted to
afford maneuverability closer to what a driver may have imagined,
while a sense of security is retained.

What kind of maneuverability was it that I just imagined ?

[Bonburner]

I really enjoyed reading the manual, lots of hilarious parts - with the "do not use the jack" being my favorite.

[White64Goat]

You imagined you were Ken Block maybe??