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Originally Posted by mark.r
Using a drive on lift, how do they lift the car correctly. I remember reading about jacking trays or something. What about jacking mechanism?
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To get back to reality instead of new posters bashing Lotus/Owners...
If you use a drive on lift, you can raise the car up in the air while it's on it's tires. You then have access to the under-tray (the part under the engine) for quick and easy removal. When that's off, you can now easily access the "C" jack points. A proper drive on (aka four post) lift will have a "sliding jack tray" - this is a cross "beam" that slides forward and backward on the ramps the tires sit on. Various versions have built in jacks that can then be positioned under the proper jack points and lift the car off the drive on ramps. The tire can then be removed easily. This is all similar to what you would do on the ground, but is much easier - if you have the room and the four post, drive on lift.
With a four point lift, you have to figure out how to get the car in the air high enough to get under it to remove the under-tray. Then you have to lower the car back down, position the four point lift arms to the proper jack points and lift the car. The hard part is getting the car up to remove the under tray without it falling off the lift...