Audi Scissor Jacks

I've owned several 90s and 2000s Volkswagens. Yes, those "half-jacks" are JUNK. I only ever had to use one of them once in one of my Jettas, and I hated the thing. The jack actually started to bend until I got the car high enough to get the wheel changed. Now, I could understand this happening if I tried to use the VW jack to lift my Dodge Ram 2500 diesel, but an A3 Jetta..The very vehicle this POS jack was supposedly designed for, and it bends the frame of the jack?!?

I switched it out as soon as I got home, as I had some jacks that I had saved from parted out junkers. I think the one I used was out of a Pontiac Grand Am I junked. It was still a cheezy scissor jack, but I must say that the GM jack was twice as well-built as the VW one it replaced.



I seem to remember VW/Audi having a safety recall on some of those jacks around the late 90s-early 2000s, but I can't recall exactly which years/models were affected. I love those cars, but my best advice to anyone who owns or drives one is to junk the jack (even if it's brand new/never used) and upgrade to something better-built and more safe.