This may be a stupid question. But is it a bad idea to put a car up on 4 jack stands?

I want to do it to rotate the tires with a lot less work and it seems like a good idea but the little voice in the back of my head is telling me to check on this.

I'd be doing this on my IRS cobra and escape.

 

it'l be fine as long as you make sure to put the stands under the frame in a solid spot

 

yeah what he said...i wouldnt put them on the axels themselves.

 

Who has axle's?

 

That's the thing, I'm not sure of a good spot besides the jacking point and that's where the jack will be. I put on sub frame connectors though. I imagine they shouldn't dent and will be able to hold it?

 

umm, i do
sorry man i forgot you said "IRS"

 

Well I couldn't rotate the tires on the escape and didn't even bother to try on the car.

I need a new jack. The one I have now only goes up 15.5 inches at MAX and the jack stands are minimum 13.5.... Needless to say the travel in the suspension was enough to make this a useless exercise.

I'm going to have to get a jack that goes higher, there's one at crappy tire that goes 21 inches but I'll wait for that to be on sale.

I still can't find any decent secondary jack points under the car. There's only ONE spot to jack on all four corners. Am I an idiot or what!?