#1: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: pete_206, Location: Ash, SurreyPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:47 pm ---- Hi chaps,
i've left my owners manual in Carlisle, just raising the car to paint the callipers.
Whats the best point to raise the front of the car?
Cheers in advance
#2: Re: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: M60SHW, Location: CarlislePosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:48 pm ---- sill or the subframe
Edit: my bad jacking point in the sill not just any old part lol Last edited by M60SHW on Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:53 pm; edited 1 time in total
#3: Re: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: Edward, Location: In the garagePosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:52 pm ---- Not the sill. It's only a narrow strip and do it enough and you'll crush it and definately split the underseal. Under the floor is a box section. Use this and a trolley jack with a thick block of timber between the jack head and box section.
#4: Re: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: NorthantsBen, Location: Raunds, NorthamptonshirePosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:53 pm ---- i used the bit were the wishbone it connected
#5: Re: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: 206-GTi, Location: EssexPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:00 pm ---- Regarding painting your calipers, What paint are you going to use? Been painting my rears in Hammerite smooth but it has taken so long to get a good finish, Was going to do the fronts whilse on the car but I will be there for days trying to get a strong finish.
#6: Re: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: pete_206, Location: Ash, SurreyPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:05 pm ----
206-GTi wrote:
Regarding painting your calipers, What paint are you going to use? Been painting my rears in Hammerite smooth but it has taken so long to get a good finish, Was going to do the fronts whilse on the car but I will be there for days trying to get a strong finish.
ooo... Well I did have Hammerite smooth. I'm back at my parents place at the moment and my dad wasn't too happy when he asked what I was doing and I told him I was going to be using his multi-grand bricked drive to do abit of spray painting... So the cars down now.. but at least I got most the muck off the Callipers
I did have Halfords brush on paint but exchanged it for a can as decided I wanted to go blue instead of red and they had no brush on blue paint. Did you use spray paint or brush on hammerite??
ooo and Edward, I ended up jacking the car up at the... erm... think it was the subframe? (damn my mechanical naivity ) Then put axle stands on either side of the frame and lowered the car so it was supported by three points. That sound about right??
#7: Re: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: 206-GTi, Location: EssexPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:15 pm ---- I got the brush on in red, has taken 4 coats to get a reasonable finish. Its reallly runny as well which doesn't help.
#8: Re: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: pete_206, Location: Ash, SurreyPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:18 pm ----
206-GTi wrote:
I got the brush on in red, has taken 4 coats to get a reasonable finish. Its reallly runny as well which doesn't help.
ooo... how long have you had the car up for to get that done? Guess you let it dry for 24 hours between coats so at least 4 days?
#9: Re: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: 206-GTi, Location: EssexPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:13 pm ---- Well, I have another set of calipers to hand so have been doing them in the shed, started yesterday evening with two light coats, about an hour between. This evening I did another two light coats and their just starting to look finished. Think another coat will be fine.
Dont even want to think about doing the fronts, as I will not have another set lying around prior, so will be on the car when I commence paint action.
#10: Re: Best place to raise front of car with jack trolley Author: pete_206, Location: Ash, SurreyPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:16 pm ----
206-GTi wrote:
Dont even want to think about doing the fronts, as I will not have another set lying around prior, so will be on the car when I commence paint action.
bahaha! 'commence paint action'
hmm... well I'm doing mine blue. Hopefully over the space of around half a day I can get about 3 decent coats on. I thought 3 coats would be ample? Spose i'll just have to wait till I got a decent day..
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Well I did have Hammerite smooth. I'm back at my parents place at the moment and my dad wasn't too happy when he asked what I was doing and I told him I was going to be using his multi-grand bricked drive to do abit of spray painting... So the cars down now.. but at least I got most the muck off the Callipers 
) Then put axle stands on either side of the frame and lowered the car so it was supported by three points. That sound about right??
