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- 2019 CX-5 AWD
Some old designs of pinch welds, or at least the ones Toyota used, are very flawed. With large cutouts in the metal it's no surprise they can fail or sustain damage. This guy looked like he didn't lift from the pinch weld but just chose a nearby random point to lift from. The Mazda pinch welds are three layers of steel bonded together, so I'm comfortable using them. I recently used the aluminum adapter at each point when undercoating underneath the vehicle and in the wheel wells and it worked great. No creaking noises. I'd either use those 4 points or the single designated points front or rear. My last vehicle was lifted from the rear differential housing at some point (it was a heavier truck) and it was pretty well marked up from carrying the weight (almost 3,000 lbs) on a very small area.
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