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?
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!
my dads car went in for a service, apparently both rear springs were broken, you'd never have realised though. felt exactly the same
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.
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.
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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Short of taking the springs off until I find the broken one, has anyone any ideas of how to see the broken spring?
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.