That's the sill, that's where the jacking points are that you'd commonly use the little jack in the boot on when changing a wheel at the road side.

Perfectky fine place to put the axle stand It's designed to take the weight of the car.

Just now, BrumTom_ said:

That's the sill, that's where the jacking points are that you'd commonly use the little jack in the boot on when changing a wheel at the road side.

Perfectky fine place to put the axle stand It's designed to take the weight of the car.

yeah but because the axle does not have the clip shape to go on the sill, the thin metal is getting flat/squashed from the axles head being under it, quite scary to tell you the truth.

The sill on these has a vertical bit of metal coming down you're right, that the jack in the boot has a slot for but the axle stand does not.

If you bought the halfords ones suggested in your other post I believe there was rubber pucks you could buy on ebay that had that cut out in them, might be wirth investing in those.

You could also put a piece of wood or something else solid undernteath the trolley jack before you start lifting in order to increase the height it can go to, this might give you the extra bit that you need to place in the locations suggested above, please make sure thought that this is absolutely stable both before and during the lift as well as while any weight is being supported as there is inherintly more risk of slippage with this approach if not careful as you're adding another object into the equation.

I only mention that as I had a similar problem to you and that was how I overcame it.

 

Don't try this without someone else backing me up, I could have been accidentally making rookie mistakes that were more dangerous than I realised at the time.

5 minutes ago, BrumTom_ said:

The sill on these has a vertical bit of metal coming down you're right, that the jack in the boot has a slot for but the axle stand does not.

If you bought the halfords ones suggested in your other post I believe there was rubber pucks you could buy on ebay that had that cut out in them, might be wirth investing in those.

You could also put a piece of wood or something else solid undernteath the trolley jack before you start lifting in order to increase the height it can go to, this might give you the extra bit that you need to place in the locations suggested above, please make sure thought that this is absolutely stable both before and during the lift as well as while any weight is being supported as there is inherintly more risk of slippage with this approach if not careful as you're adding another object into the equation.

I only mention that as I had a similar problem to you and that was how I overcame it.

 

Don't try this without someone else backing me up, I could have been accidentally making rookie mistakes that were more dangerous than I realised at the time.

yeah the wood is a good idea and object under the jack but even better, get a better jack. 

 

the nearest halfords is 20 miles away so i think i am going to get them to post it me.

Amazing what you learn on here. Reading the above posts just had Homer Simpson 'doh'  slap my head moment. 

Had exactly the same when I changed rear springs last week. Supported rear of car on the sill strips on axle stands with a piece of ply to spread weight. Unfortunately one sill did crush a little, now if I'd had rubber pucks or maybe routed out a slit in the ply it wouldn't have happened.

Back in maybe New Year 2006, I needed to replace a front spring on my wife's 2002 Polo, and I prepared by fabricating a couple of wooden blocks with slots - and an M14 maybe cap head bolt fitted into a hole drill and countersunk into these bolts - to provide some means of these blocks staying in place on top of the axle stands. That took very little effort and worked very well, just remember that there are only 4 "strong points" provided on the sills.

Thats the point though, I've got the original Fabia handbook and it's a bit vague on where exactly to jack. Got more info on it from this site than the book.

There should be 4 roughly triangular indentations on the sills denoting where to use the factory jack - which is used at the 4 strong points on the sills.

just jacked my car up and put an axle under the sill lenghth way and it it slipped off the sill, i nearly had an heart attack! then i put the axle other way round and it stayed . first time it slipped.

Why would you put it length ways

i thought that's how the axle stand is used.

can you not just run this car to a garage....................before you injure yourself !!!

i am normally careful, i will ring garage up soon.