[LORjcwMAD]

I don't get it, if Mini has special lift locations, then how the #@!! are you supposed to lift the vehicle and sit on on floor jacks?

I wanted to get the jack pad adaptor, but I see that as useless since I want to use floor jacks when working under the vehicle or when it is stored for winter.

Insight please

 

[Wing Co]

Ok, been there worked it out. If you have one of them cheap scissor jacks it should do, but I have a 4 tonne trolley jack with the official BMW rubber mount to fit in the jack point. So I try and slide it under the sill, ops the sill is so low I can't get the jack and pad in. Thinking about it, I can fit the jack and pad in the back jack point and jack the rear up and hey presto the front comes up as well as it is a little car. Then either fit another jack (I have a bottle hydraulic jack in the front point or jack up enough to get a axle stand in and hey presto you have both sides up in the air to swap out wheels or work as required. Also use wheel chocks and handbrake on, car in park or first.

 

[Cessa]

I have the same argument, there is no way you can lift the car and sit the car on 4x car stands. From what I have read and enquired about, there is no other place on the JCW you can lift apart from the dedicated jack points.

Hence the problem, how do you remove the car jack and replace it with a jack stand - you cant.

But if anyone has engineered a way, please enlighten me.
I only need to do a 4 wheel rotation so all I need is 2x jack stands and 2x jacks and this can be achieved but as mentioned, if you want to rest the car off the ground for a period of time without a commercial car lift - how????

 

[bheights]

Here is what ISTA-D says:

Raising vehicle with trolley jack

Observe the following trolley-jack-related notes:
- Only trolley jacks sold or approved by BMW, with a rubber plate on their mounting, may be used!
- Trolley jacks must be regularly serviced and always checked for functional reliability before they are used!
- Check the rubber plate on the trolley jack prior to each use, replacing if necessary.

Warning! The vehicle may be raised with a trolley jack only at the following mounting point!

1. Centre of front axle support

Risk of damage! Align the rubber plate on the trolley jack with the front axle support so as to prevent contact with and therefore damage to the underbody protection.

2. Cross-member/bridge screw connection, rear axle support

Hope this helps.

 

[Cessa]

Thanks for the pic and information, it is actually very useful.
I have already had a look at the rear jacking point and using the bolt as the main jack point. I was concerned whether the mount could actually handle the weight. Not really talking alot of weight here but still a few hundred kilograms. If it collapses, what is the resultant damage and implications.
Haven't explored the front too much but that does look promising.
Cheers for that

 

[02fanatic]

Ok, since my 9,000 lb auto lift appears to be too large to accommodate the really odd dimensions of the F56, I spent some time today figgeting with multiple locations of the lift arms to position the arms to line up with the MINI jacking points....it took forever! The F56 is very wide and the wheelbase (& thus the jack points) are "short"....tight spread for my lift jack points!

So, I marked the points on the arms of the lift to be able to lift the car by placing extra rubber pads on the arms. I want to compare with others who might have measured the 4 jack point positions: I measured 44" front to rear and 57" side to side. This is based on lining the car up exactly in the center of the lift with center to center tire span of 59"! Stock 205/40/18's on cup spoke wheels.

I marked the lift positions on all 4 lift arms along with the position on the floor, assuming I can get the car exactly centered when I drive it into the bay.

In theory this should work but it's not a one person job as I will need assistance lining up the car perfectly....never had this problem on "any other car"!

Again, my question is can anyone confirm the dimensions of the jacking points? Again, I got 44" long by 57" wide....only on a MINI! ;-)

Any other experiences also welcome for those of you with an automotive lift.

Thanks,

John

 

[subguy658]

There is a thread in the How-to section of this forum on lifting up the F56 and putting it on jack stands. I posted a special lifting fixture I made and a few pictures of using it. It took me about an hour to make the fixture.

 

[mattkosem]

Here is what ISTA-D says:

Raising vehicle with trolley jack

Observe the following trolley-jack-related notes:
- Only trolley jacks sold or approved by BMW, with a rubber plate on their mounting, may be used!
- Trolley jacks must be regularly serviced and always checked for functional reliability before they are used!
- Check the rubber plate on the trolley jack prior to each use, replacing if necessary.

Warning! The vehicle may be raised with a trolley jack only at the following mounting point!

1. Centre of front axle support

Risk of damage! Align the rubber plate on the trolley jack with the front axle support so as to prevent contact with and therefore damage to the underbody protection.

2. Cross-member/bridge screw connection, rear axle support

Hope this helps.

Thank you for this. I was able to use #2 with an old piece of 2x4 12" long. I was going to reinforce it, but found that it didn't flex at all while lifting the car. It did have ~1mm deep bolt head indents afterwards though. Easy peasy to jack the whole rear up!

--Matt

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