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Originally Posted by grivas
Why on Earth would you do that when the car's manual clearly tells you what to do, you are suppose to use the relevant jacking point under the sill
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To be fair the OP probably won't have a copy of the owner's manual. But given the nature of the emergency scissor jack it's a good job it didn't reach the centre rear jack point. Like the majority of modern monocoque build cars there are reinforced jacking points on the sills, in front of the back wheels and behind the fronts. There are supposed to be jacking pads here which are shaped to receive the dome top of the kit scissor jack. This points are used to raise a corner for the purpose of wheel changes using the kit jack.
Jacking the car properly at each end should be done using a suitably rated trolley jack and then for working underneath as already said the car should be lowered onto stands at the sill jacking points.