Jacking instructions, Warning – Jeep 2008 Wrangler User Manual

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Jacking Instructions

WARNING!

Carefully follow these tire changing warnings to help
prevent personal injury or damage to your vehicle:

• Always park on a firm, level surface as far from the edge

of the roadway as possible before raising the vehicle.

• Block the wheel diagonally opposite the wheel to be

raised.

• Set the parking brake firmly, and shift a automatic

transmission into PARK; or a manual transmission into
REVERSE.

• Never start or run the engine with the vehicle on a jack.

• Do not let anyone sit in the vehicle when it is on a jack.

• Do not get under the vehicle when it is on a jack.

• Only use the jack in the positions indicated and for

lifting this vehicle during a tire change.

• If working on or near a roadway, be extremely careful of

motor traffic.

• To assure that spare tires, flat or inflated are securely

stowed, spares must be stowed with the valve stem
facing the ground.

• Turn on the hazard warning flasher.

Jack Warning Label

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WHAT TO DO IN EMERGENCIES

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