Jack Stand Support Locations, etc.

[G600]

The thing that throws me off about the picture showing the front centre jack point is that it's a non M in the picture, there's only a single exit exhaust.

[Woodrow]

Yes. I don’t touch the sill with the bar. The bar connects to the Jacking points.

[z4pilot]

Yes. I don’t touch the sill with the bar. The bar connects to the Jacking points.

Does that not crush the plastic jacking point guides?

[enuff_zed]

Yes. I don’t touch the sill with the bar. The bar connects to the Jacking points.

Does that not crush the plastic jacking point guides?

Which brings me back around (yes, again) to my theory of creating a bar that has the equivalent of the jacking pad adaptors somehow recreated on top of it, to make sure the load is correctly applied as intended by BMW.

[Bombardino]

Yes. I don’t touch the sill with the bar. The bar connects to the Jacking points.

Does that not crush the plastic jacking point guides?

Which brings me back around (yes, again) to my theory of creating a bar that has the equivalent of the jacking pad adaptors somehow recreated on top of it, to make sure the load is correctly applied as intended by BMW.

Now I’m really confused, how can you possibly lift the car using the jacking points & use the same jacking point for the axle stands.

[enuff_zed]

Does that not crush the plastic jacking point guides?

Which brings me back around (yes, again) to my theory of creating a bar that has the equivalent of the jacking pad adaptors somehow recreated on top of it, to make sure the load is correctly applied as intended by BMW.

Now I’m really confused, how can you possibly lift the car using the jacking points & use the same jacking point for the axle stands.

I don't think he does? (Waits to be corrected...............)
By my understanding, the bar stays in place and the axle stands go under that?
Which is why I thought it would be a good idea to put something under the bar, in line with the jacking points, to locate the axle stands.
In principle the creation of a bespoke bar like this sounds a cunning plan.
Wish I had the facilities to produce them.
I guess the next question is, are the jacking points the same distance apart on E85 and E89?

[Bombardino]

Which brings me back around (yes, again) to my theory of creating a bar that has the equivalent of the jacking pad adaptors somehow recreated on top of it, to make sure the load is correctly applied as intended by BMW.

Now I’m really confused, how can you possibly lift the car using the jacking points & use the same jacking point for the axle stands.

I don't think he does? (Waits to be corrected...............)
By my understanding, the bar stays in place and the axle stands go under that?
Which is why I thought it would be a good idea to put something under the bar, in line with the jacking points, to locate the axle stands.
In principle the creation of a bespoke bar like this sounds a cunning plan.
Wish I had the facilities to produce them.
I guess the next question is, are the jacking points the same distance apart on E85 and E89?

That makes more sense, if so wouldn’t be to hard to fabricate & would work

[enuff_zed]

Busy day at work, so had a play with my idea.
Apologies to Woodrow, not intending to steal your idea, just thinking on an improved version.

[Bombardino]

Busy day at work, so had a play with my idea.
Apologies to Woodrow, not intending to steal your idea, just thinking on an improved version.

Looks good, how much you charging

[Woodrow]

Well done enuf. I was just about to draw that on a wall before I painted it.

[Woodrow]

That’s exactly what it looks like.

[enuff_zed]

That’s exactly what it looks like.

These could be marketable

[markplant]

Next problem, you need your trolley jock to be low enough to go under the sill and the new jacking bar and Jack pads, you may have to drive the car up on to blocks of the equivalent depth of the bar and pads

[Woodrow]

Nope. My trolley is just a standard Sealey trolley jack and slides under with around 20mm of clearance

[colb]

I invested in a hydralic lift for my garage, it was getting harder to get up from working under the car using drive on ramps, axle stands and trolly jacks, lifts the Z3 and Z4 sufficently high in my garage to get all four wheels off the ground to about waist high with the hood down to fit under the garage roof cross braces. Four swing out arms locate under the jacking points.
http://www.bhrepairs.co.uk/
They sell on ebay as well but I dealt direct, delivery was made within the week. It comes on a pallet and you need the delivery to be made by a tail lift equipped lorry and at minimum a pallet truck to move it to where yo want it. Needs a 32 Amp mains circuit to supply power to the pump. I should have bought one of these years ago.
It needs some scaffold boards either side to drive the car on to clear the lift, sourced those from my local timber recycling centre for little money.