Ever have a spring break?

[Joe_Power]

 

[artificialist]

I am used to seeing this on cars exposed to road salt.

On cars not exposed to road salt, I typically only see it on the Ford Focus or Pontiac Grand Am.

 

[1 FMF]

was going to say yeah every year when i was in school,

i was beaten to it.

 

[OVERKILL]

Yup, one on the rear of the 2000 Focus, was like that when we bought it. They were cheap to replace. Had broke about 3/4 of the way around from the top on one of the coils.

Wife's BMW had a broken spring (2000 328i), similar failure as the Focus.

Mustang had a broken front spring, broke right in the control arm, you'd never know it was broken, found it when I was swapping out some parts.

I've never seen one shatter though, that's a new one!

 

[jimbeamalki]

Had a 97 Windstar that Ford got in trouble with on the front springs. Ford's solution was to insert a small metal plate between the tire and the top of the spring so the tire wouldn't throw junk on the spring. Spring broke anyway. Ford had a warranty thing that they would replace the springs no charge if one broke before 10 years from original date of purchase. I was at 9 years, 11 months---lucked out on that one.