Alko jacking brackets

[GUMPY]

What did I do wrong, or are they made of cheese?

Arrived at van, Elddis 554, to check it over and found a flat tyre, it has a duff valve.
The surface underneath the van is scalpings so coarse but loose surface.

Removed the spare from its holder.
Steadys were down, handbrake on, I chocked the other wheel. Loosened wheel nuts, jacked the van up using Alko side jack, removed the wheel.

Now we come to the exciting bit.
As I was fitting the spare I felt the van move and the spare was then jammed in the wheel arch. Jacking bracket bent at 45deg.
Panic ensued, step son arrived with trolly jack, I then jacked the van back up and fitted the wheel.

I feel perhaps I should have wound the steadies down after jacking the first time but they were wound down before the tyre went flat so should have been tight.

Oh and it started to pour with rain halfway through ☔

My dilemma is now do I fit the same again just on the one side or do I go for the uprated ones from a breakers at double the cost and do both sides.

Part of me says just leave it and call the breakdown services if I ever need to change a wheel.

 

[otherclive]

I would have put some blocks around nosewheel or hitched to car. Plus as I started to lift I would raise the opposite steadies and lower those on my side. Keep doing it incrementally until the wheel is removed. Then do the reverse on the way down. Jack base would have been positioned on a hard poly chopping board to spread the weight.

PS edit. I always used sidelift plus L shaped brackets when I stopped carrying a trolley jack around. Even used side lift in storage or on drive.

 

[Buckman]

We would have called the breakdown company as after all, that is why we are paying them.

 

[borderbilly]

I wouldn't have used the steadies, just hitch to car.

 

[GUMPY]

Some points.
I don't think the breakdown covers it when in storage and not attached to the car.
It faces an 8ft bund, goes in and out on the mover so no chance of getting the car into the 2ft gap at the front.

Still I've ordered some reinforced points as the 2x800kg is a bit close to the 1600kg* that the van is when in storage.

* 1500kg when on the move.

 

[GUMPY]

Jack base would have been positioned on a hard poly chopping board to spread the weight.

This I should have done😟