t5 jack failure

Went to take the rear wheel off my T5 today, and noticed a ball bearing dropping from the winding mechanism of jack that came supplied with T5, immediately stopping to realise the cast holding the screw to the underside of the plate had fractured. Luckily still had the wheel in place so quickly...

As a newbie I thought I should start here. Had a near miss today after a puncture on the nearside rear of our 54 plate Velle. I had tested the jack on our drive when we got the van and it seemed easy to use. Problem is when the tyre is flat it is far from being straight forward. The van was...

Just thought I would post this up as a warning to anyone needing to use there jack to change the wheel. Pulled up to my unit and noticed I had picked up a puncture so out came the jack and I started to jack the rear of the van up. The jack was located on the correct load point and was on...