Jacking from rear lca?

[followingnfront]

I just had my right rear tire plugged and the guy used a hydraulic floor jack to jack it up. He placed the jack right under the right rear Lower Control Arm and used the arm as a jacking point just to get the right rear tire off the ground a few inches...

After he was done, I asked if the LCA was a suitable jacking point and he got mad and insisted that it WASNT the rear LCA. Suggesting that because he has been doing this for 40 years he knows better than I do what an LCA is...

Anyway, any chance him jacking the car from there could have messed anything up with the suspension?

Thanks

[followingnfront]

FYI he jacked the car up from just under the bolt closest to the shock in the center of the LCA where that plastic piece is in the pic

[ImStricken06]

i avoid using the LCA at all costs, because if you have ever held a nissan one on in your hand, they are thin metal, bent in a shape to create rigidity, and super light weight. they are not designed to be load bearing, rather to just pull/push. some of the more solid truck LCA's can take some weight, but i still would avoild it. i use the subframe, solid suspension parts, or the silly pinch welds. avoid LCA'a as they are flimsy as shhhhhhyeeeet

i will jack the rear using the suspension arm, not the LCA. and i only do this quickly to get a jack stand under it.
the flat (round) part i use is #2



bending a LCA is possible, which will then wear out a bushing or ball joint or simply change the tow/camber of a the wheel. i wouldnt go back there, as i doubt it did anything major. i'd just avoid the place.

[followingnfront]

Thanks for your input ImStricken...

I watched him lift it and lower it from there and I have looked at it a couple times since... It doesn't seem that it has bent at all. Although, I'm assuming I'd need some kind of equipment to know for sure... But it seems fine thus far... It does't seem to be steering/handling differently... I just hope nothing happened. Do you think I should get an alignment check at the dealership? These are the kinds of things I get neurotic about.

I was so pissed at his blatant disregard for my concern that I went back about an hour and a half later, and showed him a diagram online that referred to the part that he used to jack up the Rogue as a rear lower control arm... Then he changed his tune and stopped denying that it was an LCA but went on to say that these new ones are reinforced and are much stronger than the old ones and he kept making excuses as to why he used the LCA....

He is an older guy and my dad has used him to fix his tires ever since I was a kid, so I just gave up and accepted the fact that I couldn't change his mind that using an LCA is a bad idea... I wished him a good night and left....

That being said, next time, I think I'll just buy my own tire fix kit and do it myself... If you want it done right you've got to do it yourself right?

[ImStricken06]

some old timers just dont learn, that todays are cars MUCH different than the hunks of metal from before. today we use different metals, and they are picky as to the loads they are exposed. control arms are not designed to bend, just to be pulled from their respect rubber bushings and ball joints.

i doubt anything happened. no worries

[followingnfront]

Thanks man! I am very sensitive to suspension/steering issues and in NYC the roads are so horrible, so I'm constantly feeling stressed behind the wheel because I don't want to screw up the suspension on any vehicle I've had. I am sincerely hoping everything will be cool with this. The car only has 8k miles.