After getting my sills bent for the third time I was thinking maybe we should make up some stickers in the hope that the average garage monkey would see them and actually think for a second before carelessly wrecking our lovely cars.

Something fairly subtle from a distance but noticeable if you were positioning a jack.

Sets of four I guess for the front and rear of the sill.

The master of stickers - Pastyboy - could produce them in whatever colour to match/contrast with your paint.

Is anyone interested?

yes im interested

Rob,

I'd be interested as well.

Cheers,

Jim

Yes!

I can get them made if someone lets me know what they want

I'm interested too, but Its too late though the fronts are folded over:rotz:

Okay, sounds like a good start. Any of you artistic types have ideas for exactly what they should look like?

Nothing too big, bright & chavy looking;) May be good to do different colours to suit different coloured cars or am I asking too much:rolleyes:

That wouldn't be a problem

Suggest a yellow triangle (As per UK road sign shape), black border and then a picture of a jack with the red circle and cross over it (similar to UK no smoking).

Words under it saying "Caution, Do not jack this vehicle on the sill" spread over 2 lines.

Caution, means they might think it could hurt them so will avoid doing it.

These could then be stuck to the lower sill area and probably be about 1-2cm square.

Make the background clear, so it suits all cars.

I tend to look at it the other way, and only entrust my cars with people who wouldn't do this...

If they can't even jack the car correctly, what else can they not do correctly?

Sorry, slightly cynical outlook I know....

Steve

Suggest a yellow triangle (As per UK road sign shape), black border and then a picture of a jack with the red circle and cross over it (similar to UK no smoking).

Words under it saying "Caution, Do not jack this vehicle on the sill" spread over 2 lines.

Caution, means they might think it could hurt them so will avoid doing it.

These could then be stuck to the lower sill area and probably be about 1-2cm square.

I know a company who could probably do these, as they'll need to be pretty hardy if they're going to survive life on the sills

They do asset tags for machinery, so are used to producing stickers that last.

Steve

Suggest a yellow triangle (As per UK road sign shape), black border and then a picture of a jack with the red circle and cross over it (similar to UK no smoking).

Words under it saying "Caution, Do not jack this vehicle on the sill" spread over 2 lines.

Caution, means they might think it could hurt them so will avoid doing it.

These could then be stuck to the lower sill area and probably be about 1-2cm square.

Make the background clear, so it suits all cars.

That's kinda what I had in mind.

I tend to look at it the other way, and only entrust my cars with people who wouldn't do this...

If they can't even jack the car correctly, what else can they not do correctly?

Sorry, slightly cynical outlook I know....

Steve

Yes but you can't account for the work experience lad or something - if a couple of stickers might save you the hassle it's worth it!

Add in a HUGE wraparound one for the rear axle - a single jack up on that can mess up rear alignment badly, needing total rear axle replacement.

It happened to me with a mechanic fiddling with the rear ARB. Shims saved the day but it was a lot of work.

Blimey, I didn't know that!

Add in a HUGE wraparound one for the rear axle - a single jack up on that can mess up rear alignment badly, needing total rear axle replacement.

It happened to me with a mechanic fiddling with the rear ARB. Shims saved the day but it was a lot of work.

My Fabia had a smallish version in with the handbook- presumably it's meant to be fitted at PDI?

Mine has stickers on it - didn't stop the idiots that did its WOF (MOT) a while ago from jacking it there.

Had the alignment done since and it was okay so I must have been lucky!

where are the best jacking points then front and back, i damaged my sill but not too bad i dont want to do it again!

Coincidentally, I had another thread going on the Mk II forum on a very similar point....

http://briskoda.net/octavia-ii/jacking-points-trolley-jack/162448/

Yes, i would also be interested in these stickers.

Think skodagirl could do with some of these for the C-Max

:sofahide:

Just thought I'd try to bring this back to life...

I would be interested providing they're subtle and durable.

Would be interested too. Wonder if there is anything from the aero industry that would work, they seem to have stickers for everything on planes? Obviously i'm pretty sure they dont use trolley jacks on 747's but might have something that suits.....as i bet they have YTS workers there that dont know any different

This thread seems to have dried up...!

Are these stickers available to buy yet?

Any more info?

Bob.