Consensus for jacking up all four wheels?

Going to paint my calipers this week using G2 (curing, two-part paint) and need to know if there is yet a consensus on the best/safest way to jack one side or axle pair at a time in order to get stands under the car’s jack points.

I do have a Powerflex polyurethane BMW “puck” for when jacking one corner at a time, but I’d like to put the stands under the rockers for this. I have four nice Esco knock-off stands with flat, circular pads so I’m not worried about needing three more pucks.

I’ve read varying opinions about this, saying the wood block method between the jack points works fine on the SE, while other places say it’s not the same as the ICE R/F56.

Does anybody have a definitive answer? And for extra credit, will a regular pine or spruce 2x3 or 2x4 be ok, or should I rip a length of hardwood (I have a scrap or two)?

 

Thank you. I don’t know what hard cardboard is, but I’m assuming it’s not the honeycomb core of IKEA furniture… I will rip a piece of hardwood to fit under the rocker.

 

I dream of a garage that tidy (and with a high ceiling).

 

There are two central jacking points between the axles, but I’m not sure if they are exposed on the SE.

 

I have jack pad adaptors, not worried about them. Just looking to raise two wheels at a time without the jack points so I can place the stands at the points, as @JonR describes above. Maybe I’ll spring for a QuickJack at some point, but I’ve slowed way down with working on other people’s cars, and won’t be turning wrenches under my SE.

 

I’ll have a look at the available room for a board of some kind. I didn’t think the “flat” area is 4” deep. Meanwhile, surfing over to QuickJack dot com…

 

I just put the PowerFlex high durometer polyurethane jack pad adapter in the OE pad and it is way, way better than the four cheap “urethane rubber” (they feel like PVC) Amazon adapters I got. The PowerFlex units are spendy as heck, but dare I say, “Worth it.” Going to order three more and give the others to a neighbor with an old E36 cabrio.

 

The urethane PowerFlex [BMW/MINI] jack pad adapters got waaay sketchy riding the Lego-like QuickJack urethane lifting blocks, so I lowered the car and just let it lift with the QJ blocks flat on the plastic lift points. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ll save the adapters for use with the floor jack, or with the Esco-knockoff Harbor Freight stands. After lifting the Crapolla with the QuickJack blocks on the pinch welds, I ordered a set of their pinch weld blocks (on sale from Home Depot)… and a set of larger rubber Rotary Lift blocks from carliftparts.com (for peace of mind). I’m not sure why the standard QJ blocks are so small.