Jack stands placement

[Mr.Nutcase]

Where do you place the jack stands, under pinchwelds?
If using a lift, where to place the arms?

[freakinbox]

not on rust or a floor pan. I personally like to use the sub frames as they have no issues holding the weight of the car on a small spot and allow you to work on the suspension, brakes, tires. You also don't want to put them somewhere that they can slip out :|

[SCT]

According to factory service manuals, the 4 pinch welds (like any other cars), the center of the rear subframe (you'll see a lump in the center, that's it) or in the front on the center subframe frame.

Yea, don't think about jacking up on the floor pan or anything in between the pinch weld from one side to the other. I bent mine by accident, I bent it back with a few poundings.

[freakinbox]

to jack it up I use the spot behind the front wheel, that spot is also good enough for a jack stand if you need to get the subframe out. Just because they have more than just the metal of the floor pan there.

Yeah I took my car to Canadian tire for a new tire and the douche jacked it up under the driver floor pan. As I am tall it took me a day to notice since my legs didn't come in contact with it. I was 19 and mentioned it to my dad to see if he remembered something like that when we were looking at the car a couple weeks before when we bought it, and he FLIPPED. Stupid place tried to blame it on rust or w/e other excuse they could come up with. They put it on the lift and realized the floors were amazing on it and that the guy who worked on it was just an idiot.

OH and another spot that is usually good for jacking cars up that you would think would work on the corolla is the frame rails... DON'T DO IT. They apparently have a tendency to crush from the weight on them.

[Mr.Nutcase]

Is good to put the jack stands under the control arm bracket?

[SCT]

I sometimes do, as long as it doesn't slip off or anything. Be careful. If anything just keep to the factory lift points.

[Createdtoburn]

I lift cars every single day on car lifts. On smaller cars, you can lift it on Pinch weld. We lift Mustangs, Focuses, Fusions, 500's, etc. Lots of cars. Including my own multiple times. These corollas are so light anyway the lift barely even knows it's there, let alone even hurt the car. The pinch weld is a good spot, just keep it straight. If you do it at an angle then obviously you take a chance of bending it.

But of course if the car you're lifting has a frame underneath, then that's usually the best strongest place to do it.