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The bumper jack has 3 pieces. The base (square and black) sits on the ground and the jack sits in the base, it won't stand up by itself, it falls over. On the jack head is a grey hook. On the car in each corner (right beside the black bumper pad) is a small 1 inch cut out for the jack hook to hook into, you may have to look under the bumper to see these cut outs. slide the jack and the base under the bumper and lift the jack head into that notch, sometimes they slide up and sometimes you have to "jack" them up into position. The lug wrench handle is designed to fit into the jack and allow you to jack the car. On the jack head there is a lever that says 'down' flip the lever up and move the handle up and down to ratchet the car up, it takes a good ammount of force once the car gets up. Once you are done flip the lever down and ratchet the handle again to lower. When lowering you must push the handle down pretty hard to activate the ratchet function. It's primative but I found it very effective in lifting this heavy car.

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