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

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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.
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Gordon H
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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

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 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.

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Pete M - OMF#9

'78 Escort 1300 Sport
'99 BMW 318is Coupé


"It's an Alfa, it will go wrong, it will **** you off, why should your
Alfa experience be different from everyone else's.
Now get back out there and swear at it before something else breaks."

sleeping policemen/speed bumps are dangerous and I'm sure have contributed
to deaths (damaged tyres/suspension resulting in crashes away from the ruddy
things)

Honestjohn.co.uk often mentions that european springs spec/finishing and
states the ends are not treated properly so that salt muck gets into the
ends resulting in weakness and breakage - Japanese ones are
chamfered/treated(?) somehow

Love to know IF say hondas built in the UK follow european or japanese spec
for the springs
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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

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 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.

--
Pete M - OMF#9

'78 Escort 1300 Sport
'99 BMW 318is Coupé


"It's an Alfa, it will go wrong, it will **** you off, why should your
Alfa experience be different from everyone else's.
Now get back out there and swear at it before something else breaks."

"Pete M" wrote in message
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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...

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.

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:02:30 +0000, Gordon H
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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.

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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

My brother suffers from this on his various BMWs over the years - but
usually rear ones and he tows a caravan.

--
*Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner*

Dave Plowman London SW
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On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:02:30 +0000, Gordon H
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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.

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.
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Gordon H
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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.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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