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Buster007



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Garage ramps? Advice please

I think I need new bushes on my 2005 RRS?

A good friend of mine has a garage just around the corner to me and has offered to take a look for me by way of raising it on the garage ramps. This is the type that supports the car on the 4 jacking points underneath the car leaving the wheels unsupported when the car is raised!! Can this be done? Will it damage the air suspension? The wheels will be left hanging down - will that be ok?? Cheers Laurence.

Post #333371 Tue Feb 21 2012 10:40pm
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It won't harm the air suspension, but make sure the lifting equipment locates under the chassis,preferrably at the holes specifically for jacking at......... the body does not have any jacking points and will be damaged if he tried to lift it on that, also, do not let him lift it under the suspension compressor. Thumbs Up RRS TDV8 Buck Blue (no, not now in my dreams). ..........D3 TDclankety clankV6 ............BMW 318i

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I'd heard you must leave the tailgate open when jacking to stop the car from trying to auto-level RRS gone
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Or put Hazards on I believe Thumbs Up

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awd man wrote:
I'd heard you must leave the tailgate open when jacking to stop the car from trying to auto-level

That doesn't work awd, you need to leave a door open really when using a jack, but having said that its different again when you are lifting the whole vehicle, when my car was in at the dealers using the ramp described above i think they put the suspension in extended height then lifted the car on the ramp, because its being lifted square the suspension doesn't try to level itself. Thats my understanding anyway.


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The handbook says the vehicle must be in extended height when jacking so that would make sense Thumbs Up Wanted a Series 2 LR since childhood but previously owned MY16 Disco Sport HSE TD4 Auto, MY13 RR Sport Black Edition TDV6 Auto, MY10 RR Sport HSE TDV6 Auto, 2007 Freelander 1 Freestyle TD4 Soft Top, 2009 Freelander 2 GS TD4 Auto, 2007 Freelander 2 GS TD4, 2004 Disco 2 Metropolis Auto, 2002 Disco 2 GS, 2000 Freelander 1 SE TD4 SW

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My garage usaly leave the tailgate open and puts the hazards on then once back on the ground you just need to reset the suspension.

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Cheers guys Thumbs Up
So this is how it all went today!!

Did check the handbook and as suggested above it dose say to put the car in extended height so that’s what we did. And up she went on my mate's 3 tonne jack and it didn't sound happy about it either!! Seeing her with wheels left dangling down I was feeling very uneasy and had to go off for a walk around the corner!! I arrived back just in time to see her lowered back down wheels all akimbo I started her with bated breath expecting to see a Christmas tree display of lights flashing up on the dash with fault code listing!! But once started all the dash lights went off a message on the dash saying to reset the suspension - that’s what I did and all was OK! Thumbs Up Cheers Laurence.

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