[williaty]

Love the tip about using hockey puck & machining slot to make your own cheap-but-strong pads - I think that will be be perfct for my Ioniq 38!

I lift my van and my wife's HI5 with a set of QuickJacks. They work well but honestly are annoying to set up and use.

However: DO NOT USE RUBBER PINCH WELD ADAPTERS!

Yes, that includes home-made hockey puck types. They're fine for a quick up/down like rotating tires. Unfortunately, if you discover a problem and have to leave the car up there for days/week while parts come in, the rubber will gradually creep, then split, then drop the car. I have had two different sets of rubber/plastic pinch weld adapters do this, one of which was the official set from the QuickJack company. I now use a set of aluminum pinch weld adapters that have so far been durable.

 

[williaty]

Williaty........ do you have a link to WHAT pucks you are using? If not, what is the width, and depth of the slot needed on the puck to get proper fit? I would not want to guess and get a set that are not deep enough, or not wide enough to fit over the pinch weld location.

I use these on both the HI5 and a Ford Transit Connect

Amazon.com

 

[williaty]

Thanks ! I was just looking at those exact same ones, but didn't know if the width of the slot, and depth of the slot was proper for this I5..... I assume, it is a good fit ???

Width is good. Depth is fine. FWIW, speaking from having owned an auto shop for a decade and seen what every other shop in the area including the dealers are doing, when your car isn't in your own hands, everyone is supporting it off the pinch weld, not off the area adjacent to the pinch weld. Everyone is using flat pads on shop lifts. I have never seen any damage from it (which is why I was willing to do it too back in the day). Don't get me wrong, I've absolutely seen pinch welds damaged from jacking/supporting, but it was always from boyfriend's-sister's-cousin's-friend-bubba who was doing something REALLY stupid like using a bottle jack (small contact area) or trying to support a pinch weld on an axle stand. So to to me it doesn't matter if a pinch weld adapter is carrying the load on the bottom of the slot or on the top of the pad. What I don't want to see is anything that localizes all the force into a small spot or something like a flat steel pad where the pinch weld isn't being given any additional stability and can collapse.

On those marks, the aluminum adapters I linked to are fine.