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    Welcome to Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair!
    – Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 ♦
    Commented May 11, 2021 at 1:11
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    If you cut a slot in a piece of wood, make sure that the slot is cut across the grain, so that the wood doesn’t split in half.
    – HandyHowie
    Commented May 11, 2021 at 7:32
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    With wood I'd be concerned about it slipping off the jack. You can buy ready-made pinch weld adapters, might be the way to go.
    – GdD
    Commented May 11, 2021 at 7:46
  • Thank you for the welcome and the answers. I found out a way to avoid the pinch weld in the end - I just don't trust it in the state it's in. Luckily the jack puts the weight on flat metal next to it, so I could lift on that with a block of wood.
    – andy29
    Commented Jul 14, 2021 at 2:29
  • The "pinch weld" refers to the entire seam that runs from behind the front wheel to in front of the rear wheel which looks like "pinched" together steel. However, not all the pinch weld is a jackable surface. There is a specific location which is usually circled and described in your owner's manual, reinforced for this purpose. When the manual says to jack from the pinch weld, they refer to the reinforced jacking region in the pinch weld. If you have a trolley jack, the front and rear jacking surfaces are far easier if you can access them.
    – AdamO
    Commented Jun 7 at 13:45