If I want to use a bottle jack rather than the Land Rover supplied jack, how much extension do I need to get from the jack to get the wheels off the ground?

Thanks,
640Newton 2008 TDV8, Stornoway Grey with Alpaca premium leather, Adaptive cruise, Adaptive Bi-xenons, sunroof, Premium Nav, Premium ICE Logic 7, telephone, active locking rear diff, console coolbox, seat memory, powerfold mirrors, tow pack, window tint, dual battery, engel fridge, Goodyear Mud-Terrain tyres.

hi 640N

I was using a double stage bottle jack sourced from TJM. I say "was"as I found the lift, although higher and much more reliable than the factory jack, to be inadequate @ 200mm aprox. I usually lift directly under the outboard a-arm pivot for max lift but often still had the problem of having to dig under the wheel for removal. The factory jack was worse. I now carry a 1 tonne aluminium trolley jack which gives a 300mm lift. (waranaimports.com)

hope this helps......................frank my10D4se3Ltdv6 current
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raadar wrote:

hi 640N

I was using a double stage bottle jack sourced from TJM. I say "was"as I found the lift, although higher and much more reliable than the factory jack, to be inadequate @ 200mm aprox. I usually lift directly under the outboard a-arm pivot for max lift but often still had the problem of having to dig under the wheel for removal. The factory jack was worse. I now carry a 1 tonne aluminium trolley jack which gives a 300mm lift. (waranaimports.com)

hope this helps......................frank

in my current D4 I have sufficient space to store it on the floor behind the back seat (after removing one of the 2 handles)although you may not have this oportunity in the RRS. I don't think it will fit under the rear floor (I removed all this redundant foam from the D4 and from my previous RRS) without some modification of the rear floor cover to accommodate the receiver for the jacking handle.....unless you eliminate this cover and install a sliding floor to allow more clearance.

cheers........frank my10D4se3Ltdv6 current
my08RRStdv8 sold
my07RRStdv8 sold

raadar wrote:

in my current D4 I have sufficient space to store it on the floor behind the back seat (after removing one of the 2 handles)although you may not have this oportunity in the RRS. I don't think it will fit under the rear floor (I removed all this redundant foam from the D4 and from my previous RRS) without some modification of the rear floor cover to accommodate the receiver for the jacking handle.....unless you eliminate this cover and install a sliding floor to allow more clearance.

cheers........frank

If I were you I wouldn't use a bottle jack on an RRS. It is amazing how high you need to lift to get a wheel off the ground, by which time the car is cocked up, and is leaning - along with the bottle jack . I tried it & gave up after not even getting the tyre off the ground. Go for a trolley every time.

Timf wrote:

If I were you I wouldn't use a bottle jack on an RRS. It is amazing how high you need to lift to get a wheel off the ground, by which time the car is cocked up, and is leaning - along with the bottle jack . I tried it & gave up after not even getting the tyre off the ground. Go for a trolley every time.

I use an ABCO MEGA MGT-5 Telescopic Bottle Jack. This is extendable to 515mm and yet also fits under the car when not extended. This is the only one I found at the time I was looking a year or 2 ago that catered for all lifting requirements.

Thanks 640 Newton, I will try that again. I agree, carrying a trolley around is not really practical!

Recently fitted a Kingchrome 6ton bottle jack, fitted it into the engine bay just in front of battery. Used some of the Gotcha clamps to hold it, also fitted I/2" drive bar with deep socket on top of fender, also held in place with gotcha clamp. This jack lifts the car sufficiently to get a wheel off. Jack cost grand total of Aussie 65 bucks and will am sure do the business much better than standard stuff. My last standard wheel brace snapped when trying to undo a wheel.
Going to empty the space in rear and fit dual batteries in there, when Mrs Beanconter is not noticing. SWMBO owns this car I get to drive occasionally

DRDILL wrote:

I use a little 2 ton bottle jack from Halfords and i put it under the suspension arm, so only have to jack the arm up about 2 inches, used it when i did the discs and pads.