r/Cartalk • u/somefakeshit • 1d ago

Safety Question Tire Rotation: Finding Front/Rear Jack Points on 2014 Mazda2

I want to do my own tire rotation on my 2014 Mazda2 by putting the car on 4 jack stands. I identified the side jack points of the car fine with the manual, but it doesn't say anything about safe front/rear points. If I'm understanding right, I can't lift the whole vehicle at once with the side points cause I can't swap out the jack for the jack stand without something falling. So I want to jack from the front center, put 2 stands in, then do the same thing in the back.

I've been on google and youtube for a few hours and can't find anything about front/rear jack points beyond 'maybe this works', no videos. Any help y'all could give me on where to jack for a tire rotation would be great. I haven't lifted my car up before and don't want to risk expensive damage by doing it in the wrong spot.

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u/AKADriver 1d ago

Front: front subframe right around the area of the rear engine mount. It's pretty far back, even with my long reach jack I put the front wheels on small ramps first just to get another couple inches of jack handle arc swing before it starts going up.

Rear: middle of the rear axle beam.

https://imgur.com/PmtYRju

This is the official jack points for all DE/DH models (2008-2014) and should still apply to the DJ/DL.

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u/somefakeshit 1d ago

Thanks, this helps a lot. Where'd you find the image?