jack stands
 

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 :tup

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 http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies...shamed0005.gif
sorry man i forgot you said "IRS" :bleh:

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!?