Hey everybody...

I just had snow tires installed (hey, I live in Canada...) and the shop decided to manually jack up my S2000 rather than drive it onto the hydraulic lift (they were worried about scraping the bottom of the car). However, instead of using the 4 jack points listed in the owners manual, they decided to jack it up from the back of the car using one of the 2 cylindrical cross-members... circled in yellow in the pic below:


I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now in retrospect, I am a little worried whether jacking up the car at these points was OK. Can anybody shed some light on the topic... and ease my fears?

 

As best as I can tell, I have used those jacking points before several times at tracks with a manual jack. It's the frame, no worries...

Put that Valium down...

 

No sweat. That's what they use when you get an alignment too. Incidently, you see that silvery bit right between the two yellow circles with the cooling fins? That's the diff. The cup molded into the bottom is for lifting the car on a floor jack.



[This message has been edited by cthree (edited November 30, 2000).]

 

I see signs of salt on your underbelly. If you're going to winter-drive your car, for heaven's sake, get some rustproofing on it! My pick is Krown (an annual treatment available in most of Canada, probably Vancouver too). It has kept my 11-year old Legend absolutely spotless - no rust whatsoever.

Also, see if you can get the dealer to jury-rig some plastic fender well covers (found in just about any car intended to be driven in winter). Without these, you will get rapid corrosion on the quarter panels above the wheels, as the wheels shoot gravel, sand and salt at high velocities onto unprotected metal (sorta like old 240Z's).

Howard

Howard

 

the easiest way to jack your car is to put a bunch of lame stickers on it.

 

Keep in mind that the S2000 has THE strongest frame of any roadster in the world! Honda utilizes the "X bone" engineering! The S2000

 

Thanks Greg... thanks cthree,

Now I can sleep at night...

Funny they don't mention these jack points in the owner's manual.


GR8 S2K,

Thanks for the concern, but it's just rain spotting. I live in Vancouver (that should be explanation enough!)... so we don't get a lot of snow or salt. Besides, I don't like that black, sticky undercoating...

 

He's a link to the floor jacking points on the S2ki site. I didn't know about these either until I read this.
http://www.s2000fans.com/faqs/faq_jack.php