DftMachine

So for the past two days, I've been detailing the Lexus and saw that the rims needed a good cleaning. I was going to clean each one off the car and the rear wheels, I got off after barely fitting my floor jack under the rear diff to lift the back end up. When I got to the front, my floor jack would not fit under the front bumper to get to the Lexus recommended jack point. So I tried going in from the side, which also did not work. I tried looking for an alternative lift point and found what I thought to be a good place at the time to place the jack. Unfortunately, I was wrong. I heard metal bend and immediately lowered the car. I'm usually not this dumb and would look for other solutions before just jacking the car up but I was tired and not thinking.

So I have two questions.
1) What did I put that nice dent into? I removed the rubber plug and felt around and I don't think, or I hope, it didn't hit anything above it. (image is attached below. That is the front passenger side.)

2) Where is a good jack point that a floor jack could access to lift the front up?

Any help would be appreciated

CAK 500

Not sure about potential damage, but here is where you need to position jack/jack stands ... https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...sitioning.html

IXI187IXI

iTrader: (3)

look at the pinch weld under the car. theres a notch in the pinch weld that you can use to jack the car up.

scham21

I did the same thing:/ did you ever get the damage accessed or figure out what that was that got crushed in??

darinmg

I just had mine on jacks on all four corners and I used the main square frame tubing as the rest points. They seemed a little far toward the middle at first, but they worked fine. I didn't have good confidence in the pinch welds for some reason. Was on them for two days and left no dents on marks.

XxGoKoUxX

nothing, don't worry about it You didn't damage anything in there.

KaloBesh

This is what a friend of mine gave me a screen of from Autodata. He said that it was for my car(the 2007 GS300).

e-man

ibidu1

iTrader: (1)

Ya I never trust pinch welds, unless you use a special jack for them. I usually jack my front at the lower control arm bolt, where it meets the bend. Then I put a jack stand on that metal behind it.

e-man

vincewchan

iTrader: (1)

I jack up the car where the lower control arm meets the bolt, then I use jack stands on the pinch weld.

When I jack the car up on the pinch weld, there is not enough room on the pinch weld to add a jack stand.

e-man

potatomon

I jack it up by the subframe. That's the only way I know to get both front wheels in the air. Just drive over some wood to make room for the jack. And I guess the thing you bent is reinforcement which connects the frame rail, the floor, and the rocker piece. Mine's bent too

vincewchan

iTrader: (1)

I no longer use the pinch weld to jack up the car because I do not trust putting a jack stand under the lower control arm or any other suspension components.

What kind of jack do you have and how low is your car?

e-man