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JAMIE1131 · Feb 13th, 2008, 06:12 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Chinook (original)

Oil changes (at the garage) and tire changes rotations (my driveway). I always have a quick look around the wheel wells when I'm changing tires and nothing caught my eye last October. I use a jack on each jack point and my daughter helps me raise and lower the car evenly. You are thinking of a bad lift job at some point?

Seems quite likely to me, do you have any pictures of the failed component? They are obviously not designed to be lifting the car with, especially if the jack was placed in the middle of the arm, it would stress it in a way it wasn't designed to work.

Feb 13th, 2008, 06:12 PM	#13
JAMIE1131 MINI2 Master My Classifieds Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Earl Shilton, Leics. Local Time: 05:41 AM Posts: 792 Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by Chinook (original) Oil changes (at the garage) and tire changes rotations (my driveway). I always have a quick look around the wheel wells when I'm changing tires and nothing caught my eye last October. I use a jack on each jack point and my daughter helps me raise and lower the car evenly. You are thinking of a bad lift job at some point? Seems quite likely to me, do you have any pictures of the failed component? They are obviously not designed to be lifting the car with, especially if the jack was placed in the middle of the arm, it would stress it in a way it wasn't designed to work.