Anyone else ever had these tire shop kids bend the lower fender when they use the factory jacking points? I just noticed it a week later. I guess I need to tell them to use the cross member and differential in the future. Or give them pictures. Kinda sucks. Americas Tires no less.

Whoa! I'd be POed. ☠️

The spot is farther back as you know but the tire jockeys don't.

Yikes!

Yeah, I'd be hot! 😡

I'd make them pay for the repair

"Anyone else"...

Can't tell you how many of these we saw at our shop...

Z owners REALLY need to know the lifting points AND make sure the shop or garage KNOWS where they can lift AND WHERE THEY CANNOT!

Also HOW they can lift.

That fender deformation is not that easy to repair and do it correctly. Unfortunately it's in a spot that's not that easy to notice and most owners don't see it before they leave the offending shop.

Shops are famous for crushing frame rails and the flange under the rocker panels besides ruining front fenders...

Edited May 1, 2025May 1 by cgsheen1

Remember all the 280s with upward bent front bumpers? ☹️

I had one.

I suspect that Nissan, based on its limited world knowledge in the early 1970's, fell victim to expectations that repairs would only be carried out by authorized/factory-trained specialists who lived up to Japanese-market standards. I'll bet there were zero lift-point-related damage issues experienced by Japanese Z owners during the first 2 or 3 generations of ownership. Or maybe never.

Until computer-controlled powertrains intervened, the American automotive service industry was the Wild West. Maybe it still is.

Personally on my 78 280, If I rested those stands there it would not be pretty. I rest my stands on the very front of the rail at the weld joint.

Exactly. The point I was trying to make was that even Nissan recommended a support point that wasn't up to the task.

Just ask anyone with bent in frame rails. ☹️

I had thought about making some slotted rubber pucks for the rocker panel seams but at home I just used the diff or the front cross member and the sub frames were dented anyway.

I wonder how well a Z would lift using the four points shown in the Owners Manual. Is that not the ugliest drawing of a Z ever? 1973 Owner Manual. Looks like the summer intern did it.