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Safest place to jack up a Protege...?

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Old July-23rd-2004 | 10:28 AM
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Safest place to jack up a Protege...?

an 03' ES to be exact.

I did a search and found an earlier topic about this, but nobody seemed able to give a sure answer....

I'd like some more opinions, if possible.
Old July-23rd-2004 | 10:42 AM
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Old July-23rd-2004 | 10:51 AM
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are you trying to lift corner, front, back, whole car....what?!?!
Old July-23rd-2004 | 11:11 AM
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Old July-23rd-2004 | 11:17 AM
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you want to lift the whole front of the car in the air? if you look just off-center (driversside) there will be a black crossmember that runs from the front of the engina bay to the rear. On this bar is a ****. place the cup of the jack on this **** and it'll rest perfectly.

Jack it up slowly...if the engine moves and the car doesn't then you've got it in the wrong place.
Old July-23rd-2004 | 11:35 AM
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And it's guaranteed that there'll be no bending or snapping, eh?
Old July-23rd-2004 | 11:53 AM
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i don't make any promises on any work YOU do. If you want to pay for me to jack your car up I promise nothing will break.
Old July-23rd-2004 | 12:44 PM
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we jack the car up anywhere there aren't streetglow LED light bars
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