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Hi all,

When I eventually get my new Blue GT at the end of April I will be taking the wheels off to protect them with Carbon Collective Platinum Wheels.

Need your help with where to place the jack and axle stands as I've never done it before. How/where do I put the axle stands, is there enough space to place jack and axle stand together?

Sorry to sound so useless but don't want to damage the car doing this. Pics of jacking point would be great!

It you want to lift on the panels (where there isn't room for much more than the stock scissorjack which comes with the car) there are two cutouts on the underside of the sideskirts where they are.

I have installed Audi rubber mounting points in the chassisrails running under tha car. That way you can allways be sure that you are lifting in the correct spot.

They are very easy to install.

Here they are installed on a Golf:

Yes, there are cut-outs along the side skirts of the BGT, but they are pretty small. I managed to take the rear wheels off to install spacers, but there's like 1mm clearance between the jack and the side skirt, so you need to be very careful.

TheFrog wrote:Yes, there are cut-outs along the side skirts of the BGT, but they are pretty small. I managed to take the rear wheels off to install spacers, but there's like 1mm clearance between the jack and the side skirt, so you need to be very careful.

You should get those jacking points Frog. They are really great.

Yeh they jacking points look like the way to do it, found some here http://www.awesomegti.com/genuine-tt-ja ... leon1-oct1, going to get myself a set.

Mart!n-GTI-DK wrote:You should get those jacking points Frog. They are really great.

Where did you get yours?

Thanks for the info guys, as always everyone is so helpful, really appreciate it.

Looks like I will be spending even more money on a car I haven't even got yet!

TheFrog wrote:

Mart!n-GTI-DK wrote:You should get those jacking points Frog. They are really great.

Where did you get yours?

I got them from an OEM parts dealer here in Denmark.

But they are an original Audi part. You can get them here: http://www.ecstuning.com/Search/ES25174 ... /ES251835/

It should be cheaper to get local Audi place to order them in, I fitted a set to wife's Polo 9N back in 2004 or so.

RUM4MO wrote:It should be cheaper to get local Audi place to order them in, I fitted a set to wife's Polo 9N back in 2004 or so.

Should be yes.

I hope so, I don't fancy paying out $90 + shipping for something I may never actually use

TheFrog wrote:I hope so, I don't fancy paying out $90 + shipping for something I may never actually use

Sure you can... I just can't read all of the part number on this picture...

I've just checked what I bought and fitted many years ago:- from Audi jack pads 8N0-804-583 and 8N0-803-855 4-off of each required. I find most DIYer trolley jacks "cup" fits over these perfectly. I have no idea of current cost, though I must remember to recover them before buying a newer Polo for wife, I can probably still find where I stored the hard plastic covers that these replace!