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Can we talk about how I put my jack stands on the pinch weld for 3 oil changes straight
My buddy Marcus crawled under my Accord in his garage in Fresno and just pointed at the crushed seam, and I felt like the biggest idiot in the world. Been lifting cars for 6 years and apparently I've been folding metal this whole time, so what's the actual spot you all use on a unibody?
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stone.evan6d ago
Wait, so you're saying the crushed pinch weld is actually a problem? I've been doing the same thing on my Civic for years and honestly those seams still hold fine, they're way thicker than people give them credit for. A little bend in the lip is not the same as real damage, and the jack stand still sits solid under there without slipping. Half the guys on forums act like you're gonna total your car if you touch the pinch weld, but in the real world it's just a fold you can bend back with pliers. If it was truly unsafe, the stands would wobble or the seam would rip, and yours clearly didn't after 3 oil changes. I get that Marcus was trying to help but this whole thing sounds like more of a nitpick than a real failure.
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