Re: Jack on control arm??

["Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

This is yet another reason why you shouldn't take a BMW to Sears!

The E36 has four jacking points on the chassis.  There are four black rubber 
pads on the chassis which are to be used to jack the car.  They are located 
beneath the point where the four jacking 'holes' are found on the rocker 
panels of the car.

If the Sears mechanic didn't know this, HE SHOULDN'T BE WORKING ON YOUR 
CAR!!!!!

I hope that they didn't mess up your control arms...

- -rb

>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:17:27 -0500
>From: "Michael Ting" <lupin@domain.elided>
>Subject: Jack on control arm??
>
>I went to local Sears to get one of my tires patched.
>
>Obviously they needed to lift the car. When they did that, they used both 
>the lower rear control arms as the jacking points. (The upper control arm 
>is the one where the spring is based right?)
>This is on a E36 btw.
>
>Is that a safe thing to do?? I was afraid that the arm would bent. I talked 
>to the "Alignment manager" at sears, and he said it's fine.

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