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Old 01-28-2008, 10:23 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Help! Proper jack placement on a 98 Camry

This may seem simplistic to your readership but I bought a 98 Camry this past summer with no owner's manual. I am stranded between Toronto and Montreal with a flat tire and I dont know the proper jack placement. I dont want to risk putting the jack in the wrong place and the car falling. It is dark now and wintertime up here in Canada so Im sitting in a hotel room scanning the net for the information I need, but I cannot find it. I know there are owners manuals to buy online, but I just need this one piece of information: proper jack placement for the passenger side front wheel.

Can anybody help me so I can get home in the morning?

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Generally the same for all vehicles.

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If you are raising the passenger front wheel in the air with a jack, take a rock, piece of wood, or some other suitable object, and place it behind the driver side rear wheel, chocking it between the back of the tire and the ground, so that it will inhibit any rolling or motion of the car as it is raised.... The tire changing procedure will be much safer if you do this correctly.... And is always recommended ... due to gravel, slippery pavement, and other conditions. This would even be advisable when raising a vehicle in your own driveway.
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You will see the 2 cutouts on the sidesills, just behind that right front wheel. That's where the stock scissors jack goes; in between those 2 cutouts.

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see the owners manual also, and if I were you i would invest some money in a better jack.
My toyota jack gave out on me one day and the car came down on my rim thank god, cut a gash in the rim but the car was fine.
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