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23rd February 2013, 15:04 | #11 |
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By coincidence, one of my front springs snapped this morning. Fortunately, the car was on the drive at the time. Less fortunately, the spring punctured the tyre, so that will have to be replaced as well. The tow-truck cometh on Monday ...
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Shame it happened Stuart but great it did happen where you were, I guess there is no indication on inspection as these can snap anytime. I am now thinking about having all four changed now. Has anyone got an idea of how much that would cost for them all to be replaced?.
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had one on the front of ztt snap last week just missed the tyre.in the end had the rear springs replaced from rimmers at £96 the pair.the front springs where also replaced as a pair which cost £230 fitted including the springs which are sachs ones.
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The pair of front coil springs were £85.65 and a pair of shocks top mounts £74.78. I was only charged 1 hours labour at £47.55. 2 new Falken ZE914 tyres were £149.02. (all prices excluding vat) Hope you get yours sorted to be safe Cheers Stuart |
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They already know that I am 75 & ZT bonkers. Cheers Tony
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My OSF spring introduced itself to the tyre today , I was reversing out of a parking space at ASDA.
A very good job that it didn't go earlier today on my 60 mile commute there and back to work this morning - as I wasn't hanging about on the motorway. My OSF tyre now has a 2-3 mm extra groove in the tread. I guess that I'll be removing the strut tomorrow and hopefully getting a new spring, drop link and strut mounting on Monday. I may as well renew them at the same time as the 75's at 131k. |
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The Daily Telegraph's Honest John has said in the past that this particular problem is most likely to occur first thing in the morning after a very cold night, because the springs are at their most brittle then. It's not a hard-and-fast rule, though, so I suppose those of us who have had springs break at home should think ourselves lucky that we were not out and about when it happened.
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As a matter of interest, it turns out that my car does have the protectors fitted to the front springs, but that didn't stop the broken spring from puncturing my tyre! Clearly, they are not as effective as they are supposed to be (as one or two members have already commented). |
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Just had one go on me today. Thankfully car was stationary at the time.
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