That's the identical jack that I have as well.

I did pretty much the same thing with a cheapo jack from Harbor Freight.. it was too narrow I believe for the height I had it at and the car rolled over foward (because I was stupid and didn't use wheel chocks). Well that was the last day of life for that jack... went out and bought a really heavy/wide low profile jack (steel) from Harbor Freight and some chocks so that won't happen again.

Luckily the only small amount of damage was under the side skirt since the jack was laying on its side on part of it.

I think like you said we get lazy after successfully working on the cars for so many years. Good reminder that it really only takes one slip up.

sorry to see that. A customer of mine did that on the front of his C6. Unfortunately for him, the side skirt is part of the body on the corvette and it was a lot of damage.

Your very lucky, for sure. Anyone have a good write up on properly jacking up these cars? Maybe in the DIY section?

Wow, kinda freaky. Glad you are ok though.

Personally, I don't go under a car that's only supported by a jack. Either it's up on ramps or I have jack stands + the jack to support it. Usually throw a cinderblock or two under there just in case too. Maybe it's overkill, but the last thing I want to do is die fixing my car.

Glad you're ok, good reminder.

I've been careless in the past but then became a little more paranoid...I try to have jack stands also whenever possible before going under...always worried a hydraulic jack only would fail

Crazy.

That hurts to look at....at least the only damage was to your car and not to YOU.

Wow, that sucks. Like everyone says... glad you're ok!

I used to work without jackstands when I first started working on cars. That was before someone explained how stupid it was to trust a jack. Friend of mine had a family member drop his camero on him because he wanted to use the jack and didn't know he was under the car. He was ok, just a few bruised ribs but it could of been worse.

Wheel chalks and jackstands for anything I can't use my ramp for. Also, never have the car on 4 jacks, it's really easy to tip over. Almost had my 914 drop on me that way.

I am glad you are OK.

The line I've done it a million times is how we all get hurt. Thanks for the reminder.

You're very lucky. A little over a year ago my co-worker lost her husband due to a similar accident. He was working on his truck, and did even better than jack-stands---he parked it over a ditch and crawled beneath. Somehow, something went wrong and it rolled on top of him in the ditch. There was obviously no way he was getting the tire off of him, supine with it on him, "chalked" in the ditch now. They found him like that when they got home.

No, I don't know exactly what occurred (parking-brake, transmission popped out of gear, whatever). I have no idea. I just know the general details, as I didn't feel like grilling his widow about it.


Be careful.

The ONLY part of the car actually "glued" to the car. PITA to fix.

Would also be interested in this. Jack points w/pictures (not illustrations) for our 370Z and also tips (jack stands, etc)

yep, but it pushed forward his plans for full widebody conversion.

wow kid.
Becareful !!!!
good to hear you alright.