Hello all,
I was servicing my back brakes this morning (899 Sei) and when I worked the jack the jack went up but unfortunately the car didn't .
The metal has split around the jacking point. Rest of the car looks reasonable but I don't want to throw too much money at a 14 year old car with 110,000 on the clock even though we do love it to bits.
I was just wondering if anyone has had their jacking points welded up and is it a successful job? Or is it getting time to say bye bye.
I have another 5 months on the MOT so if I can get it done over summer it would be good. Mechanically the car is very good as I have always maintained it well but I have to admit to not paying much attention to the bodywork.

Ian.

Get it welded up, shouldn't be more than £50-£100 for a decent job from a back street garage providing its not too bad.

No point binning a good car over something as trivial as this

An easy bit of welding that is, get a few prices from some garages, I plated mine up there in my lunch break!

Thanks

Thanks for your replies chaps. I thought that because it was a jacking point it might need to be strengthened. I'll get it priced up when I've found somewhere that does that kind of work. I had another look today and it has gone quite badly although the area surrounding looks quite good.
Ian.

By jacking points do you mean the small square plates with the round hole in them that are on the floor pan?

craigb244 said:

By jacking points do you mean the small square plates with the round hole in them that are on the floor pan?

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Yes. It's the rear drivers side one that has gone. The metal has sort of torn at one side and the jacking plate went up into the car, only a little as I realised what was happening.

They aren't very strong, even when new. I just Jack the car up on the sills. Hasn't done any harm, just UAE a rubber pad.

I wouldn't worry about it

As far as I know these are not actually jacking points. (They are just spot welded to the floor pan which is very thin steel.

They are most likely points where the car is tied down on the production line and for transportation.

As said the best place to jack the car is either on the sill (the sharp edge) with a bit of wood or rubber block to protect the stone chip.

Or from a suspension mounting point