I have never jacked up my Vantage before. It's strange, I have always wrenched my cars as much as I could but jacking this car looks really strange. I've looked at the jack points and they are less than inspiring spots.

On other cars I put a block of wood between the jack and the lift point and off I go. Will that work here? It looks like I'll break something if I do that. I went in search of jack pads. AP has them, but $260 shipped to my home? That's not gonna fly.

What do you do?

 

I've got a video on YouTube for it, just search for Telum01 on there and you'll find me.

 

I have a 4 post lift with sliding jacks so it's a bit easier but I still use a 5" long piece of 2x4 between the jack arm and the lift point when I use the sliding jacks. I would imagine that it would be real difficult to align things in the very vague lift points from the side of the car on the ground. Its fairly nerve racking the first time jacking the aluminum without a clearly marked area.

 

I use a hockey puck in the floor jack saddle and hockey pucks in the (flat) seats of my jack stands.

 

Easy to lift. A piece of hardwood, 5 x 1-1/2 x 3/4, works fine in back and double that thickness in front (glue two pieces together). Easy to position...just place it on the aluminum rail and then butt it up against the edge of the plastic sill. You can use some double sided tape to hold it in place while you position your jack.

 

Ditto , quick , cheap , easy to do and doesnt mark any critical surfaces , stack them up as needed .

 

Yea, hockey pucks!

 

I have a 12" x 12" piece of thin reflective plastic I got from a mirror shop. I just place it under the car, near the jack pad and am able to line the pad up with the hockey puck on the jack without having to bend or stoop to see under the car. Try it, you'll like the ease and accuracy of lifting the car using the mirror.

 

The average DYI owner does not need jack pads. The problem is where to put the jack stands after you have jacked the car up at the recommended jacking points.
Here's what I need, a pad that fits into the jacking points and it long enough to get a jack stand under it so I can remove the jack. Ideally you would jack the car up on an elongated jack pad and then put the jack stand under the jacking point at which point you would then release and remove the jack. Make that and I will buy it

 

hello guys, do i need a special jack to use these jackpoint jackstand? or any jack will lift and adap to the round top?
any places in europe where they can be found?

 

You'll have to see how the jack pad on your jack lines up to the are for jacking. A vendor on this site sells a set of Aston specific pads which I bought and can recommend. The DB9 is the same as the Rapide.

I think I could get away with using the default pad my jack came with, but since I already bought the pads...

 

thank you Botbol, i recognized the dog. i will give it a try soon, there is a huge pillar next to the car, at leats if i can avoid the car to slide along the pillar so the roof does not fall, it be a good thing. so doing the 2 sides on stands is a big nono for me....lol

 

 

excelent!, cool dog, since i subscribed to a bentley thread, they are talking about seting the car oin jack mode before to lift it, do i need to do this for the rapide....lol....man its abig issue for the Bentley if you dont do it, you find your car flat on the floor....i don't need that now... these rapide with the Vanquish style logo interior are the best, i even prefer them to the S, i think if the rapide become collection these will be the best models to have, like yours and mine. i had my key serviced twice in UK, once i update some screws and tap cover, and once i update the cristal, it was'nt so expensive and since i never dropped this damn key, and since when i left my car i left the valet/plastic key instead.....its like new cristal, this with some paint job to the interiror handle side of the car and rear, plus ceramic treatment and wheels too etc has help to revive the car...wheels has no chips nothing like new. i am still treating the interior with Zaino, leather inside a bottle, so it smell super good inside. And i had the differential and gearbox oil changed at 60k kms. i empty the garage to work better its a garage i built for the rapide, it has a 6 meters by 30 cm window horizontal, and a window door near the car like a living room, show room, with the view on the palm tress i planted, and the stones floor i had the car on sale before also due to living in spain, not sure i will stay here due to all the dificulties we find. lately they will built a 400 kwatts electrical line passing like from 90 meters to 160 meters of the side of my land. Of course they will not respect the 400 meters safety rules adopt by Europe they will do it like they want do it, the spanish way, sad. i was totally rejected here from working the bank leting the tpv virtual to spanish only, and same for the distributores, never i faced so much dificulties and reject of my life, after California, it was too hard on me. here its not almost no solidarity, if you re stranger they will screw you the best they can. i miss it there in the US even if it has changed a lot, and i think i won't even want come back to cali anymore.