How to Raise Support 2011-18 Volkswagen Jetta

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When lifting this car, the front lift points, you'll see on the pinch weld that it actually has an extra piece of thick metal attached to it where a lift or a jack would go. Your scissor jack in your trunk with your spare would fit over this nicely. Same thing with the rear, has the same extra metal. This jack’s square, so you can't really see it. You'll see a bent, extra lip of metal where your lift or jack would go, to lift up the car to change a spare or do any work.

For holding up the front safely with jack stands, if you need to put extra support, as well as lifting up on the actual lift point, any spot on the sub frame in the front, over one of these bolts with a jack stand, is acceptable, but you don't want to jack anything up by the oil pan obviously, or the transmission case, or this dog bone mount—this is just cast aluminum and it can break. In the rear, you can hold up. You can put a jack stand or a spare jack, if you're lifting up, as this being your first point of lift. You could use this body mount for the independent rear suspension. This would be acceptable spot for a jack stand, if you get it there safely.

You want to make sure you don't put your jack stand or jack under any actuating suspension, so placing a jack stand under this control arm when you lower your jack, you're going to push your suspension up, and you could, depending on what you're doing, the car could tip too far, or it would simply go back on their own completely, and you wouldn't really have a good spot to work.

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