L322 Question about jacking - Need to remove driver rear wheel

Morning,

I need to remove my rear wheel, which I've done a million times on other cars, but no on my RR, so I have a quick question.

I know there are two jack points for the sissor jack, but as I need to remove the disc I'm not trusting the sissor jack and will use a trolley jack. But I wondered where the best point is to put the jack? I've watched a few videos and there are a few places I've seems, but don't know if they are good or not?

The places I've seen:
1) Directly under the air suspension on the side you're working on - seems the easiest, but is this correct?
2) Where the wishbone joins (but i've read the wishbones are hollow so don't do this?)
3) Mid rear of the car - but I don't need to lift both sides
4) Timber on the top of the jack and just behind the side step

Also I've seen some people say that the car should be in "Off-Road" mode (Air suspension at max height) and a door open, but then also read that the door open is irrelevant and not mentioned in the manual.

Any advice would be appreciated

Cheers,
Chris

When jacking iv not bothered altering rude height but do press the inhibit button on suspension this keeps it as is, if you try and jack it it will start to try and self level, keeping door open is a secondary system so if your say under car and door is open it prevents suspension moving about and potentially trapping you.
When jacking mine with trolly jack I normally go under lower arm where it mounts to the subframe/ bolt goes through as my jack seems to really grip here without risk of slipping. Anywhere substantial will be fine as long as jack reaches.

Just keep in mind how much travel they have on suspension that lifting on jack points etc will need to lift high enough to absorb suspension travel and then some to lift the wheel. My 3 ton jack won’t lift on jack points, lifts to about 450mm and at that height only just begins to take weight of the road wheel but not enough to take wheel off.
Hope that helps.

Good morning, personally I always use the jacking points but make sure you don’t crush the plastic sill covers if your Jack plate is large, use a hard wooden block. I’ve tried all the tips to stop the air bag from dropping but still end up putting the scissor Jack under the swinging arm to hold it otherwise when it’s time to put the wheel on the bag will have dropped. Enjoy your day and just to say, my local garage did the washer trick for my rusty disk plate as the alternative is pulling the hub to fit a new one.
Cheers Tricky

PS don’t forget the Axle Stands! Safety first.
Cheers Tricky

I suspect the suspension arms may be aluminium in which case be very careful of not trying to lift any part of them.

I use jacking points and one of these

Grrrrrr said:

I suspect the suspension arms may be aluminium in which case be very careful of not trying to lift any part of them.

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Steel on mine judging by the rust that builds up on them.