Jacking the car up

[MintyFresh]

This may sound like a stupid question, but how do you guys with low cars and bodykits jack it up?

I intend on fitting my neons  today, and as far as i can see its gonna involve driving up some bricks.

Is this how you guys do it?  a quick response will be appreciated.

[grinder]

use the mazda jack !!

its very low and works well

failing this - i drive mine onto a pile of bricks first

just becareful jacking it up - i just put the jack thru the sill on mine - and then found/made another 4 holes - so thats 5 intotal - not impressed

all i was trying to do was check a wheel bearing

[MintyFresh]

cheers mate, bricks it is!

[Archbish]

If you jack up the front-side jack point with the mazda jack, you can get the trolley jack under the rear-side jacking point.  You can then jack to your hearts content without a fear in your heart.

Which neons have you gone for??  I fitted mine on saturday...

[MintyFresh]

Ive got a UFO LED kit.  Where did you fix them to the car? Do you have any pics to point me in the right direction?

Cheers

[Archbish]

wow - the UFO one!!!  Couldn\'t quite justify the cost (although I went through a lot of internal wrangling!!).  Mine is the 1000 colour one... (varox or something?)

If you pull the rear seats out, you\'ll find a rubber grommet on each side with about 12mm diameter hole.  That leads directly out just above the start of the rear suspension.
The two side ones are butted up against the sills, out of sight (so no ugly lightbulb showing), and feed straight in through there.
The rear one is up inside the bumper , runs over the rear transmission, down to the same hole and up into the cabin.  The front on is behind the splitter, goes into the undertray, zip-tied along the inside of the cable protector, and up through one of the holes into the cabin.  I\'ve taken feeds from the amp power supply and earth, and it all seems to work really well...

No pics I\'m afraid, but 1 warning - when you drill through the floor, it does go straight into the cabin, so the supplied screws may be far too long.  It\'s not double skinned like most cars...

[MintyFresh]

Ok, excellent advice bish.

Ive got the rear seats out already, so should be pretty easy.  Im not looking forward to drilling through the rex, what did you do about the screws going into the cabin?

[Archbish]

yay - see I can do technical...!!! *grin*

I used shorter screws and put rubber plugs on the inside.  Probably excessive, but if I didn\'t I would injure myself at some point in the future... :rolleyes:

Out of curiousity, what are the fixings like?  The varox ones were terrible - little clips and zip ties!!  I\'ve changed it cos I had no faith in what they supplied...!!  Those UFOs look like some classy gear - are you getting the spots or floods for the interior?

[MintyFresh]

the UFO fixings are similar.  

I have got light wire and some other LED neons for th interior, not the spots or floods.

Are you happy with the effect the neons have?  I thought the price of the UFO\'s was excessive too, but they did what i wanted and im stupid

[Archbish]

I had neons on there before, but they were damaged during the HOOOJ floods last year...

The LEDs look great, and I am pleased with them.  What\'s great is the way people slate them, then see them and are grudgingly won over!  (at least it isn\'t on a nova/scort/323...)

The UFO\'s do look cool, and I think they\'ll be brighter than the Varad tubes I\'ve got.  Was seriously tempted by the floods and spots too tho...

I got the Varads, as they let you set the colour you want, so it\'ll go better with the body colour.

[Andyp]

I got these rhino ramps from Halfords. Bout £15 do the job real well as there\'s no way you can get a jack under mine

[MintyFresh]

what are those ramps made of?  they dont look too strong.

[Andyp]

heavy duty plastic dude and they can hold up to 8 tonnes according to the packet hehe. Use mine every time I go and have my tyres done, the tyre places loves them

[MintyFresh]

excellent, might go look for them myself

[yonner]

pics of le neons :cool  plz?