JeffHs
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| posted on 29/5/09 at 11:05 AM |
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Help wanted - broken tintop spring
I found a piece of broken coil spring in the drive to-day. It looks to be the end of a coil, just short of half a coil. I guess that the broken spring
has settled back into its cup. It must be from either of 2 cars, both Fiesta and both driven away from home to-day.
Should I be worried about the drivers?
Short of taking the springs off until I find the broken one, has anyone any ideas of how to see the broken spring?
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RickRick
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| posted on 29/5/09 at 11:10 AM |
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don't suppose they were lowing springs by any chance? my fiesta broke one front 60mm lowering spring, in about 3 places, i was just lucky the
coils jammed into each other, or i'd have had no spring on that corner at all, made braking err interesting!
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blakep82
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| posted on 29/5/09 at 11:22 AM |
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my dads car went in for a service, apparently both rear springs were broken, you'd never have realised though. felt exactly the same
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bimbleuk
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| posted on 29/5/09 at 11:32 AM |
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My Audi A4 only failed its MOT yesterday with a similar broken spring end. If the spring is uniform from top to bottom the car may just end up a bit
lower on that corner. My Audi spring winds tighter on that last coil and locates in the cup with the broken bit. So this could have affected the
handling of the car if it dislodged from the cup.
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r1_pete
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| posted on 29/5/09 at 12:19 PM |
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It would be wise to replace the pair as soon as possible, it will more than likely fail the MOT, in normal driving its probably safe enough, but I
wouldn't do any high speed or sharp cornering.
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 29/5/09 at 02:46 PM |
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My mums failed on her Corsa the wek before last. You could feel it was slightly down at one side if you weren't a usual driver of the car. Just
take it easy driving but replace them when you can. I did both fornt springs last Saturday, took about 1 3/4 hours. Not a massive job, cost £60 to buy
and I only trapped my finger once. All be it from the spring rapidly expanding when I didn't notice it was snagged!
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RoadkillUK
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| posted on 30/5/09 at 02:21 AM |
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quote:
Short of taking the springs off until I find the broken one, has anyone any ideas of how to see the broken spring?
Surely if you look at it front and back, one side will be 'wilting'?
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tj4ord
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| posted on 30/5/09 at 06:05 AM |
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If u jack up the cars and take the weight of the suspension u should be able to see which spring has broken. The front springs seem to break more than
the rears on fiestas i have had to change both fronts on mine and my gf's fiestas.
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