On my 3 previous VW Jettas use of a floor jack had caused at least one mutilated jacking point on each Jetta. Make a "jacking pad" from a 4" piece of 3 X 1 1/2 channel iron and a 4" piece of pine 2X3. Trim the sides of the pine to fit the channel, then glue the pine into the channel iron and...

Someone's thread a while back reminded me that the some of the plastic in the Cruze interior seems to scratch rather easily. Specifically, I am thinking of the silver painted plastic piece that goes around the shifter knob/HVAC controls, and the one for the radio. To me, these pieces look like...