rafletcher
08-01-2015, 08:59 AM
Having changed my wheels and tyres last week (summer to winter) using the jack supllied with the car I had two observations:
1) It's bloody awkward getting the jack out of it's plastic bracket, especially in the freezing cold with bare hands. Gloves and some brute force and ignorance finally made it, but that was 5 minutes I could have done without wasting.
2) Using a trolley jack would have been a fair bit quicker, but mine has the usual round "petal" top plate, and the jacking points of the A4 seem profiled around the sill seam.
I could probably get someone at work to make up a replacement support to fit to my jack I guess, but I'm sure the AA/RAC just use a standard jack, so there must be suitable points on which to use one. Any suggestions?
1) It's bloody awkward getting the jack out of it's plastic bracket, especially in the freezing cold with bare hands. Gloves and some brute force and ignorance finally made it, but that was 5 minutes I could have done without wasting.
2) Using a trolley jack would have been a fair bit quicker, but mine has the usual round "petal" top plate, and the jacking points of the A4 seem profiled around the sill seam.
I could probably get someone at work to make up a replacement support to fit to my jack I guess, but I'm sure the AA/RAC just use a standard jack, so there must be suitable points on which to use one. Any suggestions?