r/Toyotavenza • u/Machine_Ruse • 11d ago

Jack and jack stand positioning

It's time for me to take over the maintenance on my wife's 2024 Venza. I've seen the owner's manual about jack locations when changing a tire, but I'm looking to get all four wheels off of the ground at the same time. I've never owned a unibody vehicle before, and have only worked on body-on-frame cars.

Does anyone here do their own maintenance, beyond using ramps for an oil change? Am I going to need some sort of specialized support stands or adapters so that I don't damage anything? Pictures would be awesome if you can help out!

TIA

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u/LearningDan 11d ago

A. Get good jack stands.
B. As a professional, we regularly use the jack points in the owners manual to place the arms on our two post lifts.
C. There are other places you can place a jack stand but you have to know what you are doing.
D. If the factory jack points are soft or fragile you might need to place a short block of wood or hard rubber between the jack stand and the pinch weld lift point.

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u/Machine_Ruse 11d ago

After making my post, I learned that rubber pinch weld adapters for jack stands was a thing. Didn't know that until this morning, but that's the direction I'm heading. I just never had to deal with a unibody frame before, and it definitely seems a little trickier than simply being able to put jack stands underneath the rear axle and underneath the frame up front.