[s-cars] OEM jack sucks....what do people use otherwise?

[Lee Levitt]

Fred writes:


> When you pull the wheel bolts, the hub usually rotates
> in the brake rotor (which is held by the e-brake) and the bolt holes don't
> line up. You have to release the brake to line the holes up
> again.

Um, yes. I found this out the hard way. I also found out the hard way that
you really *do* need a flat area to jack your car or bad things can happen.
Fortunately for me, the only bad thing that happened was that the holes
became unaligned and I waited for 3 hours for AAA to show up to save me.

I thought about a number of really stupid things to try while I was waiting.
Most probably would have generated serious damage at some point...

Fortunately it was a nice day and I didn't mind waiting *too* much, so every
time I had one of those stupid thoughts I managed to stare it down.

Oh, and reading the manual helps. Afterwards, ahem, I learned that the took
kit has a neat little plastic doohickey to stick in the bolt holes before
you remove all the wheel bolts. This doohickey keeps the hub and rotor
aligned. Since then, I picked up a couple of aluminum ones for a MB which
are much nicer...and do the same thing.

Lee
'95.5 S6 avant
'96 A6 quattro avant