Road Spring?

nope... my extended warranty had just ran out. :o(

There's definitely something not right about that car..... sure it hasn't been clocked?

In news:d871pl$2f2$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com, Rob graham decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

My sister-in-law managed to shatter the two front coil springs on a Megane Coupé.

One of the front coil springs snapped on my Golf Cabriolet

One of the front coil springs on my old W123 Merc 280TE snapped and left the car at very high speeds.

Remind me never to buy a car off you. Anyone who skimps on things like suspension....

The laughable thing about this topic is that half the cars out there will have uneven suspension springs, but nobody ever tests them and they don't really matter much. If they did matter then you'd have some sort of a problem driving it. You might as well suggest that people should replace wing mirrors in pairs.

Unserviceable shockers - now that's different. You can come off the road with these. But how many people test these?

Rob Graham

Well the obvious time is when doing a high speed stop , then one side wiil heat faster than the other & the coeffecient of friction changs quite considerably with temperature, just at the time when you don't want it to.

You don't normally have uneven suspension springs, the car sits on the piss if you do.

The front one snapped on the Sierra a couple of months ago. Cambridge Ford Fast Fit failed to notice when they MOTd it.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Rob graham" saying something like:

Oddly, I've found the retardation effect is better metal to metal. Must be the friction welding. :O)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Rob graham" saying something like:

Some cars do; from the factory. Sometimes to even up the body because of weight distribution of the engine/gearbox, sometimes to compensate for the weight of the driver on one side.

Sometimes, of course, it's just because it's been cocked up and somebody's fitted an estate or van spring on one side.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com saying something like:

Depends on the car; some cars will do many thousands of miles with a broken bottom coil (the Mk2 Grandad), others less so.

Generally, though, it's a good idea to fix it asap.

You could always howk the corresponding coil off the good one and lower the car; it's what angle grinders are made for. The next step would be a set of Kev allyos, blue neon washer jets and some kickin' bass.

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The virtues of Mk2 Grandads can never be fully extolled. Brilliant old things.

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Sdly they seem to be driven by really old gits these days. The one who pulled out in front of me in Welshpool the other day must have been blind. How else can you avoid seeing a big bright red car bearing down on you at 30mph and still pull out anyway?

Not something I have direct experience of, but you may need to compress the spring to get it short enough to thread into place. This is usually done with some special tools, as it could need more force than would be practical with a bit of string.

Some vehicles do have enough suspension movement that you don't need to do that.

Just got my car booked in with the dealership for the coil springs to be replaced. I know I'm a mug, but it's the least hassle. It costs =A3198.

Slightly miffed though - the cheeky sod on the service desk said he didn't know if =A3198 was a single spring, or a pair! Fri#'in fu'#in ba'#ard. He later found out it was for a pair.

HOW MUCH? Hell, it's only £30 up here.

Because the metal acts as a friction material. It just also happens to chew up the disc at the same time.

Not always.

Correct.

I can't remember where the OP was posting from, but that's around the going rate for main dealers down here.

Peter