Lifting points

[facasi]

Hi, could you please let me know the recommended jack point for the S3, specially the front area ?

Thanks

[Spinnetti]

There's lift pads under there - just a bit inboard and behind the wheel arch - manual and/or google image should show them to you. They are plastic, but do the trick.

[EvoToSQ5]

Pinch welds. If you look at the side skirts there’s indented arrows pointing to where the lift points are.


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[Sv2k]

Aren’t there marks on the bottom molding for S3 that point the jack points, little triangular ones?


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[AlexQS]

Aren’t there marks on the bottom molding for S3 that point the jack points, little triangular ones?


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Yes, there are those arrows on my A3.

I needed to put jack-stands under pinch welds, so I needed different spot to put floor-jack.

In photo, we’re on passenger side of car, just behind front wheel looking across towards the driver side.

I jacked from driver side of vehicle, put a piece of 2x4 wood across the bracket with the bolt in it (area circled in red in photo). IIRC looks like there’s a square-tube running length of vehicle, probably what that bolt screws into. Looked pretty sturdy to me. I went slow, and bracket didn’t bend, (but the 2x4 wood did indent the shape of bracket a little). I would not attempt this without the wood.

I jacked rear of car first, then went in with floor jack from right behind driver-side front wheel. Be aware of where body of floor jack is on the floor, keeping the path clear under the jack-points (pinch-welds), so you can place Jack-Stands once the car is in the air. Using this area circled in photo as lift point, both sides of car came up together which was great.

If you choose to follow my suggestion, you do so at your own risk. Do not get under your car until after you have lowered car securely onto Jack Stands!
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AlexQS
2015 Audi A3 2.0T quattro Premium
2014 VW Passat TSI Wolfsburg

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