Tire place jacked up car via undertray, loud CRACK.

str8shot · 05-29-2012, 08:58 AM

I went to get a flat repaired this weekend, and they jacked the front car up via the undertray. I heard a loud CRACK, the guy lowered it, slid the jack back, and jacked it up again without issue.

Any ideas what the CRACK could have been? What's under the tray that could have snapped? It didn't look like there was any damage to the tray itself...

Fing idiots...

Simsims · 05-29-2012, 09:04 AM

ask them to remove it

EFI Logics · 05-29-2012, 10:39 AM

I hope they didn't miss the jack point.

-Josh

stevenc · 05-29-2012, 11:54 AM

Yeah remove undertray and look. Could have done some serious damage.

Das Ein · 05-29-2012, 11:57 AM

Was probably one of the 4 plastic cup jacking points. No biggie.

str8shot · 05-29-2012, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EFI Logics

I hope they didn't miss the jack point.

-Josh

Pretty sure they did...what could be damaged under there?

Pangloss · 05-29-2012, 03:55 PM

My wife came home from a local oil change place one day trailing a line of gasoline that stretched all the way back to the store a mile and a half away. We quickly turned off the car, shutting off the internal pump, and gas stopped gushing out (which probably explains why nobody noticed it before she drove off), but they'd split the gas line by misplacing the lift jack. They had to tow is back to the store to fix it.

Doesn't sound like the problem here, but just goes to show how important those lift points are.

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Simsims Captain 37 Rep 615 Posts Drives: 119/220 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Ottawa iTrader: (0)	ask them to remove it __________________ VO 1M - everything except sunroof RIP BSM 135i 2009-2011
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EFI Logics 52 Rep 306 Posts Drives: '08 BMW 135i, 08 535Xi Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Bethel, CT iTrader: (0)	I hope they didn't miss the jack point. -Josh
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stevenc Coming Soon 254 Rep 960 Posts Drives: 2015 BMW M4 Alphine White MT Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Houston, TX iTrader: (0)	Yeah remove undertray and look. Could have done some serious damage.
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Das Ein Captain 31 Rep 815 Posts Drives: '16 Audi TTS, '17 500 Abarth Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: The Colony, TX iTrader: (4)	Was probably one of the 4 plastic cup jacking points. No biggie.
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Pangloss Lieutenant 28 Rep 563 Posts Drives: 2012 135i Convertible Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: South Florida iTrader: (0)	My wife came home from a local oil change place one day trailing a line of gasoline that stretched all the way back to the store a mile and a half away. We quickly turned off the car, shutting off the internal pump, and gas stopped gushing out (which probably explains why nobody noticed it before she drove off), but they'd split the gas line by misplacing the lift jack. They had to tow is back to the store to fix it. Doesn't sound like the problem here, but just goes to show how important those lift points are. __________________ 2012 135i convertible, DCT, Black/Beige, HK, Prem, M sport, no nav.
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