Quote:
Originally Posted by roastbeef
i'd say the more crap you put between the car and the jack stand, the more of a chance it has to slip. the jack pads are bolted to the car... then you have wood, then you have a jack. the car moves slightly when you jack it up. use pad style jack stands and be done with it. it is the safest and easiest.
|
Agree with this except the lifting blocks snap into the rocker panel, they do not bolt in. The blocks are designed to breakaway from the rocker panel if something hits them so as to not damage the chassis.
Again people, you don't need adapters, just use the correct equipment. Getting the ESCO stands with adapters is just plain dumb because (unless they come with the original flat tops as well) is basically buying a set of stands just for one specific model car. All BMWs do not use the E90-type lifting block; every BMW model uses a different lifting block style.
__________________
A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."