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From: tic on 1 Feb 2010 17:28 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: Gordon H on 1 Feb 2010 18:02 In message <HAI9n.173576$At4.153675(a)newsfe04.ams2>, tic <notmdeackes(a)blueyonder.co.uk> writes >Hi To All >Is it just me, I have never known so many road springs to break. On All >makes of Cars. >This year I have replaced 7 ,Last year 27, 5 years ago ZERO. >I know we all say pot holes but is that the answer to the spring >breaking or is it more material's >mike d After the second front coil spring was discovered broken in about 18 months on my Mk 2 Mondeo I asked in disbelief to see it in the workshop, as the handling seemed ok. It was broken near the top. I asked the service guys (the ones in overalls) if they thought speed bumps could be a cause, and they shrugged and said "Wear and tear". I've had the Mk 3 Mondeo nearly 5 years and no broken springs so far, despite the ever-increasing number of tank traps. -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply
From: Tony (UncleFista) on 2 Feb 2010 05:01 "Pete M" <pete.murray(a)SPAMFREEblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:hk80gm$nj$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > I also think it's speed bump related. Searching through the MOT history > for my BMW online I discovered that it had a set of rear springs at 36k > miles. Does seem to happen more and more often. > > Having said that, the only coil spring I've ever had go on a car was on a > 1985 Mercedes 280TE - it's common on those. In the snow and freezing conditions a week or two ago, my SAAB broke a spring going over a speedbump, there was a bang and then clunking from the broken bit. 2 days later the other side did the same. Weird, it was just the bottom coils, or 2/3rds of them anyway. I blame speedbumps, exacerbated by the cold :) -- Tony Bond / UncleFista www.bradford7.co.uk Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra. Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath. At night the ice-weasels come...
From: Willy Eckerslyke on 2 Feb 2010 05:18 Tony (UncleFista) wrote: > In the snow and freezing conditions a week or two ago, my SAAB broke a > spring going over a speedbump, there was a bang and then clunking from > the broken bit. 2 days later the other side did the same. Weird, it was > just the bottom coils, or 2/3rds of them anyway. Bloke at work's Rover 75 behaved oddly while reversing a couple of weeks ago. Thinking it was just the snow holding him, he struggled backwards for a few more yards then got out to find one nearly new tyre ripped apart by the jagged end of a broken spring.
From: Usenet Nutter on 2 Feb 2010 05:18
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:02:30 +0000, Gordon H <Gordon_News(a)g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >In message <HAI9n.173576$At4.153675(a)newsfe04.ams2>, tic ><notmdeackes(a)blueyonder.co.uk> writes >>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 > >After the second front coil spring was discovered broken in about 18 >months on my Mk 2 Mondeo I asked in disbelief to see it in the workshop, >as the handling seemed ok. It was broken near the top. > >I asked the service guys (the ones in overalls) if they thought speed >bumps could be a cause, and they shrugged and said "Wear and tear". I'm sure I read in Mondeo Forums that the Mk2 was well known for breaking springs .Over the last three MOT's my Mk2 has had springs replaced on at least two times and ,same as you,I was not aware of it .. Over the years I have had many cars ,Avengers,Sunbeams,Sceptre,etc etc and I did not have one broken spring on any of them. |