car Lift, advice / experience

I have also been offered one of these.
http://www.maxjaxusa.com/
check out the video, but at £1595 +VAT, a bit out of my budget.

[Alpineandy]

This would be cheaper;

thankfully cost is not the be all and end all.

So, question, planning to give the GTA some love this weekend.

I have access to a two post lift, like the one pictured below.

However, in the workshop manual, it says writ large "OWING TO THE WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION AND THE BODYSHELL STRUCTURE IT IS FORBIDDEN TO USE A LIFT WHICH TAKES THE WEIGHT UNDER THE BODY......"

Tell me, do they really mean that the way it seems, which is "NO, don't even contemplate it, you pleb !?", or is it more of a "be sure you have the little pads VERY carefully positioned under the jacking points, NOT the floor"?

Thoughts please.................
Just want to check before I break anything.

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What you mean like this then



GTA on the left up on a 2 poster... yes be careful of the positions, but more importantly where the weight bias is, it's heavy at the back and will come off if you don't weigh down the front... ideally without a Luis hanging off the back as well!!

But in short... of course you can do it! LOL

Cheers,
Martin

[mettersl]

Doesn't the manual say something like the front jacking points are only for a 4 point lift? The. Car can't tell how many posts the lift has, just how many points of contact
(yes I know 4 post lifts are drive on, but that's not much use for suspension work...)
Would love to have something like that, but then I'd like to have space to park an alpine inside ...hence alpine less at present....

Doesn't the manual say something like the front jacking points are only for a 4 point lift? The. Car can't tell how many posts the lift has, just how many points of contact
(yes I know 4 post lifts are drive on, but that's not much use for suspension work...)
Would love to have something like that, but then I'd like to have space to park an alpine inside ...hence alpine less at present....

its a 2 poster

Do them all the time on a 2 post lift .Weight isn't overly an issue as long as you are careful .Get the arms in the right place though .Rear you will be fine on the jacking point but make sure you put a block of wood on and get it on the steel sill edge not the flat plate at the end of the outrigger .Or further in on the subframe for most of the time .Same up front ,get on the vertical edge of the footwell where the corrogated triangular bottom plate is ( this is the steel section ) or in under the front frame on a triangulation .

Finally got my asp into gear and got one being delivered today ..2 post 3.5t single phase .