Best place to utilize the jack

If you are using a scissors jack, it's possible that; it's made to use the pinch weld.

My wife's car (2004 hyundai elantra) actually has no place to jack in the rear other than the pinch weld. The lower control arms are round bar stock and using them would surely bend them, and the sway bar is directly under the axle!

Speaking of scissors jacks.....as much as I like our old school farm style bumper jacks, I've started equipping all my classics with u-pull/ thrift store/ yard sale scissors jacks. I find they are safer and easier to use. Sometimes you can find electric ones that plug into the lighter socket.