Broken Springs, All makes of Cars
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From: Harry Bloomfield on 2 Feb 2010 13:19 tic pretended : > Hi To All > Is it just me, I have never known so many road springs to break. On All makes > of Cars. > This year I have replaced 7 ,Last year 27, 5 years ago ZERO. > I know we all say pot holes but is that the answer to the spring breaking or > is it more material's > mike d In my driving career, I have had three break. Two cart type springs in the dim and distant, plus one coil about 15 years ago. The later was just the last part of the bottom turn and went un noticed for several days, the only sign was a graunch noise on tight turns. None at all since the introduction of speed bumps etc.. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Harry Bloomfield on 2 Feb 2010 13:22 Dave Plowman (News) has brought this to us : > In article <+RVOYKQjXBaLFwwj(a)g3snx.demon.co.uk>, > Gordon H <Gordon_News(a)g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >> My last experience of a broken spring was on my dad's 1936 Morris 8, >> which he had overloaded with a home made "boot" box on the rear, to take >> us from Manchester to Poole on holiday around 1948. > >> Hit a verge somewhere in the Midlands and a leaf broke on the NS rear. >> He was fortunate that the friends we were staying with new a repair shop >> which fitted a new leaf. > > In those days leaf springs could be repaired by any blacksmith. Who would > also re-set them to the correct height. I dunno if coil springs could be > repaired - but it's cheaper just to replace them anyway. The only way to repair a leaf spring is to replace the broken leaf and rebuild it. There is no way to repair a broken coil spring other than replace the complete spring. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Conor on 2 Feb 2010 14:39 In article <7sr0urFu0aU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Willy Eckerslyke says... > > Conor wrote: > > > The A614 on East Yorks is so bad that a recent test showed that if the > > driver was working for a company and experiencing the levels of impact > > and vibration similar to driving down that road that the company would > > be breaking H&S rules. > > Does said company set a minimum speed limit for their drivers then? Did I mention that the employee was driving a vehicle? -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: tic on 2 Feb 2010 17:26 Mercedes say stone chips hitting the coil spring and chipping the paint causing corrosion and fatigue of the spring causes them to break!!! "tic" <notmdeackes(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:HAI9n.173576$At4.153675(a)newsfe04.ams2... > Hi To All > Is it just me, I have never known so many road springs to break. On All > makes of Cars. > This year I have replaced 7 ,Last year 27, 5 years ago ZERO. > I know we all say pot holes but is that the answer to the spring breaking > or is it more material's > mike d >
From: Mrcheerful on 2 Feb 2010 18:00
tic wrote: > Mercedes say stone chips hitting the coil spring and chipping the > paint causing corrosion and fatigue of the spring causes them to > break!!! if that were an actual problem then mercedes would plastic coat the springs |