Having just bought a used 1 year old Fabia (without a spare wheel and jack). Can anyone advise on suitable places, front and rear for a trolley jack as I want to remove the alloy wheels for a thorough clean.  Thanks

My 3 suggested options in acending order of cost are:-

 

(1) fabricate an adaptor for your trolley jack and jack up at the indicated strong points on the sills - make sure you use hardish thick rubber as a cushion and use the inner horizontal area to carry the weight, have a clearance cut-out for the vertical welded joint and use the outer horizontal area to stabilise things so that the car can not rock off the adaptor.

(2) buy a set of 4 Audi TT jacking point protectors, fit them where there are 4-off hard plastic bungs, and place the trolley jack directly below them as the cup should fit them perfectly if you are using a DIY trolley jack. (wife's last Polo had them fitted, now a new set on wife's new Polo)

(3) ask Santa Clause for either a pair or a set of four Jackpoint Jack Stands (this might mean using up a few Christmas's present allowance!) These are excellent if you end up with a car that has no accessible strong points other than the workshop/emergency jacking points as you jack and hold on the same point.

 

If using option (1) or (2), it would be wise it stuff some blocks of wood under the car near each jacked wheel area as added personal protection, with option (3) you will not need to which is good as you will have spent your "wood allowance" already!

 

P.S. the stone quarry which was quite near my high school, used to run a fleet of immaculate Thames Trader tippers!! (maybe not yesterday though)

Edited 21 August, 20169 yr by rum4mo

Thanks for the suggestions, I like the jacking pads solution, this looks to be suitable for my Touran too. I've been able to find a number of threads on this and other forums related to jack support pads. As I have two vehicles I'm tempted to get one of the sill weld rubber/plastic support pads with a groove cut in it as an interim measure.

 

I take you point about  additional support - I always support  the suspension or chassis with a ramp protected by a piece of solid timber, and of course chock the wheels at the other end of the vehicle.

 

The Jackpoint stands are clearly the ultimate and in many ways the so obvious a solution.........

Yes, two pairs of the Jackpoint Jackstands along with 2 trolley jacks gets the car up in the air one side at a time pretty quickly, I had to join a Porker forum and their running group buy to get my set of four at a good price and flown across by one of the big couriers very cheaply, a lot cheaper than Parcel force could have moved them within UK, and it only took about 32 hours!

Been to TPS today and ordered one pair of Audi TT "Service Lift support pads" as they are referred to, I want to check they will fit the Mk3 - the examples I've seen on the forums relate to Octavias and earlier Fabias.

I'm guessing that you bought 2 rubber parts and 2 hard plastic parts?

One rubber and one hard part, had a message today to say the parts are in - so I collect them tomorrow........

 

I'm fairly confident it will fit the Fabia, but didn't want to splash out £26 for 4 sets just in case.  I also want to try fitting it to the Touran although this will have to be a partial fit as I doubt they can be removed once fully pushed home. There are possibly other optioins with the Touran from another PQ35 platform vehicle but the Audi TT Fabia solution might be needed - hence why I want to check the parts against the Touran first.

I would not advise the use of these TT jacking point protectors on bigger heavier cars, as you might find that the body rails might deflect a bit if you jack at one point only, this is not an issue with the smaller cars. Someone in USA fitted them to a Passat and found that the body distorted when that car was lifted - no surprise there!

 

If you did fit that pair of parts fully, yes it would be tricky to remove the locking element later - might be easy enough if the car was high up in the air, ie workshop ramp. I can say, that after being fitted to a Polo for 10 years, these parts were not wanting to come back off - so I had to buy a new set for wife's new Polo!

 

I'm guessing that you will have read what the easiest way is to fit them - I think that I applied Waxoil to the rubber part, in the groove of the part that locates into the car body, really to lub it a bit, seal it a bit and to make sure that I was not causing any new corrosion point. A suitable sized socket in the cup of the trolley jack then apply a bit of lift until the hard peg "pops" into the rubber part.

 

Have you found the correct locations for them yet? As I think that I said before, the blanking covers at these four points are hard plastic and not soft rubber - and obviously round!

Edited 24 August, 20169 yr by rum4mo

Picked up the two parts from TPS this morning, and they were the right size for the front and rear locations. I used silicone grease to lubricate the two parts, the rubber part was the hardest to push home but the hard plastic bit popped in easily having been lubricated with silicone grease.

 

Thanks for the warning about using them on a heavier vehicle, I shall return to Plan B for the Touran and use one of the grooved rubber pads/pucks on the sill jacking point

Hi all.

Can anyone give me a link to a website for the the TT jacking pads please, to fit fabia mk3?

Thanks

I'd hope that the cheaper way to buy them is to get a local Audi dealership parts department to order them in for you, I'd think that is what I did - twice!

 

Some of the "go faster bits" online shops sells them, like Awesome GTI .

If you look on the Awesome GTI website you will find that they include the Audi part numbers for the two parts that get used/fitted at each of the 4 points on the car.

Thanks rum4mo, i will have a look at AGTI. Thanks again.