BMW i3 on Jack Stands

[SimpleCarGuy]

I’m getting ready to do some upgrades and a few maintenance items on my BMW i3 and to make it easier, I decided to put it up on jack stands on all 4 corners. Here is how I did it:
https://youtu.be/0AhzUjRKNCw

 

[donfede]

Thanks for sharing a video on this topic.

Make shure to also check out alohart's excellent thread per getting an i3 on jack stands -- https://mybmwi3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2471

 

[eNate]

...Here is how I did it:

Did you use lifting point adapters? It looks like you've got something in there, but it bears mentioning on the video so that somebody doesn't inadvertently damage their CFRP chassis.

 

[Fisher99]

This would be quite expensive if a person wanted 4 of them to get all 4 wheels off the ground, but I recently bought one of these:

https://safejacks.com/products/the-rennstand-by-safe-jack-single-unit

Works very well! It is innovative, extremely well built using high quality materials, and works well on both my i3 and my wife's 5 series. You can get jack pad adapters to work with most any unibody vehicle. It's not cheap,but It's the first time I've been able to get 2 wheels off the ground at the same time on either of or our Bimmers.

 

[eNate]

Oh, wow, that's pretty ingenious. One or two would do the trick for most jobs.

 

[alohart]

Make shure to also check out alohart's excellent thread per getting an i3 on jack stands -- https://mybmwi3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2471

Thanks for the reference!

By changing the order of lifting by the jack points as I describe, lifting by the front suspension arm can occur only on one side rather than on both sides as in video. I'm never as comfortable lifting by the front suspension, so I try to minimize doing so.

Also, using proper BMW jack point adapters would reduce the potential of damaging the plastic jack points. The (expensive) jack stands that I bought have proper support surfaces that fit inside the jack points and thus don't need any jack point adapters. However, the floor jack that I use does.