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I trashed my scissor jack and carry a bottle jack in the car.
Definitely we can find quality alternative. But theses is landrover issue. They should equipped better jack. I will be very dangerous tooThe jack for my air suspension D5 is identical except for the saddle. I used it 3 weeks ago when swapping the stock tires/wheels (255/55-20 Goodyears on 20x8.5 wheels) for off-road tires (285/50-20 Nittos on 20x9.5 wheels). Cranking the jack was very difficult so I applied grease to the shaft, which helped a little. I can see how torsional stress on the shaft could cause it to shear, which would suck if I was in the middle of the desert somewhere. I've already checked Amazon, which has many alternatives. This thread has given me an incentive to get one before venturing out again.
Good ideaFirst off, my view is the factory jack should never be used on a Land Rover - they are too heavy.
Second, if you are really serious about "something should be done", you submit the broken jack to your "National Transportation Safety Board" and maybe, just maybe, with lots of followup, a recall could be initiated.
All giving the jack back to LR does is allow them to destroy the evidence and ensure that they keep doing what they do as anything else would effectively be admitting to a problem.
I carry two bottle jacks; one for under the frame and the second, for jacking under an A arm.
The threads stripped on my factory LR3 jack and fell with a similar crash. I ended up buying a factory Ford super-duty bottle jack similar to the one that came in my old D2. It’s a 4 ton with a 2 stage ram, but it still had a little trouble getting high enough for my 265/70/18’s. To remedy that I made a platform out of 2 layers of 2x6’s glued and screwed perpendicular to each other. It gives it an extra 3” and a bigger base if I’m on soft ground.
The people who first drive Land Rovers new do not change their own tyres - in fact maybe never even have a flat as the vehicle usually goes off lease before the OEM tyres are worn out. As such, not a factory concern.Lifting equipment usually has some pretty serious factor of safety put in place. This should never be happening.