Jack slipped

[veteran]

Asamoli,

You've my greatest sympathy over this, and I hope you can get a good repair done, and at a reasonable cost. The jack slipping away is the one fear I specifically have when always jacking up my (nearly-new) Polo. On and off these last few months I've been looking into various ways of lifting the car for the purpose of wheel changing/servicing, and also for the MOT scenario. Thus far, I've not come across anything that's absolutely 100% secure.

Meanwhile, can you expand a bit on how exactly your accident happened? Were you using the VW roadside screw-jack, or instead a trolley jack? Were you lifting on the knife-edge cill seam, or somewhere else underneath the car? My understanding is that you were lifting the corners in order to slot axle stands underneath, on the cill seams, so that you could then work on the wheels/brakes. An explanation of what you did exactly in the leadup to the accident could help myself and others avoid similar.

Were you aware of there being some compatible jacking pads made by the VAG Group (Audi) that could have been permanently pre-fitted underneath at the four corners and the use of which could have prevented this sort of thing from happening? Rum4Mo has mentioned them. They're one of a number of lifting aids I've been looking at recently.