Where do you jack this car up with a floor jack and where do you put the jack stands. I have been changing oil and doing my own repairs on cars for a long time, but this one has me stumped. Car has weld points all along the bottom by the doors. Do you use floor jack on this to jack it up? The car doesn’t seem to have the support beams to jack it up very frustrating I want to change the oil !!
2021 Chrysler 300s
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Don’t have the manual, The ramps I know about them but car is very low to ground in the front it would hit. I googled the jack and underneath there are two squares one is soft the other is hard when you press on it the pinch weld runs down the running boards. Is it ok to use floor jack on the square that is solid to jack it up . Chrysler really messed up on this design!
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With a floor jack and appropriate pad/adapter, I shoot for the flat, reinforced area to the inside of the pinch weld. If you lift from the pinched part, it either folds over and/or destroys the paint on it.
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It really has. Every vehicle is designed a little differently in those 4 spots. My Equinox and Traverse have plastic cladding around those areas, leaving a small area notched out of the plastic. I bought both of them 3yrs old with ~30K miles on them and you can see where the dealers and shops beat up those areas before I did.
I have several Chrysler 300m's (so the previous generation LH body) and my standard lift point for the front end is under the front sub frame, the bracket where the strut rod is attached to the sub frame. The floor jack I use can reach that area when I roll the jack under the front bumper right in front of the front tire. So if I'm raising the front left or right side to change a front tire or take the tire off to do suspension work, that's where I'll do it. I can't find a good online photo of the front undercarriage of an LX-body 300.
Does the LX body 300 have a large shield that covers this area? If it does, that sucks.
My 3.5L v6 oil filter is on the driver's side, I can put the floor jack on the driver's side under the sub frame where I mentioned and it's not in the way when I'm on the ground reaching up to unscrew the filter. I usually don't raise it so high that the front tire is actually off the ground - don't need that kind of height.
Does the LX body 300 have a large shield that covers this area? If it does, that sucks.
My 3.5L v6 oil filter is on the driver's side, I can put the floor jack on the driver's side under the sub frame where I mentioned and it's not in the way when I'm on the ground reaching up to unscrew the filter. I usually don't raise it so high that the front tire is actually off the ground - don't need that kind of height.
There should be an exposed area on the front subframe with a small embossed triangle facing outward; this is the lifting/jackstand area. See #3 in the illustration:
A popular upgrade is to bolt jacking pads into these areas. See these links:
https://www.liftpadpros.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=65_69&product_id=52
https://www.amazon.com/YIBEICO-Chal...&sprefix=charger+jacking+pads,aps,155&sr=8-28
Note the product in the first link says it fits virtually all Chargers, while the Amazon product says 2008-16. Don't know why this is...I'd bet they're all the same.
In the photo in the Amazon ad you can see the small triangles on the subframe.
A popular upgrade is to bolt jacking pads into these areas. See these links:
https://www.liftpadpros.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=65_69&product_id=52
https://www.amazon.com/YIBEICO-Chal...&sprefix=charger+jacking+pads,aps,155&sr=8-28
Note the product in the first link says it fits virtually all Chargers, while the Amazon product says 2008-16. Don't know why this is...I'd bet they're all the same.
In the photo in the Amazon ad you can see the small triangles on the subframe.
Agree...but only for oil changes. Brakes, tire rotations, etc. require jackstands or a lift.
Multiple different ramps designed specifically for lower vehicles. This is a non-issue.
Does this car have a Pentastar V6 or HEMI? If it's a Pentastar V6, get a fluid extractor and do top side oil changes.
I had a 3.6 in a T&C and I never saw the underside of the van.
I had a 3.6 in a T&C and I never saw the underside of the van.
This has the hemi , I love the car but I want to change the oil myself, had my wife’s. 2006 300 with the 3.5 she had an oil change done my the dealer ok she gets it back and I check the oil low 1 quart and these guys are supposed to be factory technician yea right ! Don’t trust anyone anymore !
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Online ? But yeah - ramps are safer …
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When I had my 300C (HEMI) I used a slight drop off in my driveway to allow my regular sized ramps to get the car up on the front tires for oil changes. There are low profile, longer ramps for these modern low cars.
By the way, I loved that car but it was lost in a flood.
By the way, I loved that car but it was lost in a flood.
Yes I am getting it registered today, I drove the car two weeks ago and that hemi gets up and goes, First V8 in many years for me. I used have a 69 Mach 1 mustang, had a 1970 cougar with 351 but this had the 4bbl Holley 390 posi engine also had the cam and hooker headers, the mustang was a 2bbl stock but we put a 4 speed ford manual transmission in it. Oh the cougar we put a trick shift in the transmission I remember being able to manually shift it if you wanted to it used to Chirp second year when you stomped on, Those were the days 
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Please stop. You are making me miss my 300C even more.Yes I am getting it registered today, I drove the car two weeks ago and that hemi gets up and goes, First V8 in many years for me. I used have a 69 Mach 1 mustang, had a 1970 cougar with 351 but this had the 4bbl Holley 390 posi engine also had the cam and hooker headers, the mustang was a 2bbl stock but we put a 4 speed ford manual transmission in it. Oh the cougar we put a trick shift in the transmission I remember being able to manually shift it if you wanted to it used to Chirp second year when you stomped on, Those were the days
. It is fast for a big car but I think my GTI takes it in a drag race.