FIAT Freemont - Manual (Page 242)

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 rais-
ing the vehicle.
• Turn on the Hazard Warning flasher.
• Block the wheel diagonally opposite the wheel
to be raised.
• Set the parking brake firmly and set an auto-
matic transmission in PARK.
• 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.
(fig. 154)
Do not attempt to raise the vehicle by
jacking on locations other than those
indicated in the Jacking Instructions for
this vehicle.
(fig. 155)
1. Remove the spare tire, jack, and jack-handle from
stowage.
(fig. 154)
Jack Warning Label
(fig. 155)
Jacking Locations
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