Broken Springs - List (add yourself if you've been affected)

[SqerrNipz]

Health check at RBM identified a broken rear coil spring… add me to the list

 

[Bing]

Drivers side spring gone, both rears being replaced Thursday. 105k miles, 16 years old. Not bad tbh.

 

[cjs82]

Yep, both rears at some point between 105 and 110k. Quite simple to swap out.

 

[zriha]

Hello there, 215.000 km, broken.

 

[wiganz4]

Not quite made the Broken Springs Club but...... corrosion advisory on MOT so getting them done. On the Suplex catalogue it lists rears as 'with options'. Am I right in thinking this is sport suspension?

 

[Robtp10]

I had the broken spring issue, replaced with a B12 kit with Eibach springs in the end.

 

[Five-O]

Funnily enough mine failed it's mot today on a broken rear spring

 

[LRC]

Both rear springs broken at 100k miles, replaced with BC Racing Coilovers.

 

[Torpalasse]

Both rear 90000km 2003

 

[BarrE85]

Do you think there could be an E85/86 out there on over 50k with original springs?

N/S/R & O/S/F , all replaced.

 

[MikeyH]

Not the state the roads are in :headbang:

 

[enuff_zed]

Do you think there could be an E85/86 out there on over 50k with original springs?

N/S/R & O/S/F , all replaced.

Refuse to answer that on the grounds it will jinx my fleet. :rofl:

 

[enuff_zed]

Not the state the roads are in :headbang:

Step-daughter followed me along some back roads a while back. When we stopped she asked if I was drunk as I was all over the road.
I explained I drove those roads every day and was avoiding all the potholes and manhole covers.
She mocked me and said in her Discovery Sport she didn't feel them anyway.
My riposte was to ask why she thought she's had 3 punctures in 6 months. :roll:

 

[MikeyH]

Yes, there was a Discovery (Sport?) By the roadside a while ago with a flat tyre. It was so low profile it could have been on a Ferrari. Why do they make a model of an off roader with such stupidly thin tyres I wonder :wink:

 

[enuff_zed]

Yes, there was a Discovery (Sport?) By the roadside a while ago with a flat tyre. It was so low profile it could have been on a Ferrari. Why do they make a model of an off roader with such stupidly thin tyres I wonder :wink:

Because they are driven by women who would rather push me and my zed into a ditch than risk getting mud on their tyres!

 

[MikeyH]

Yes, there was a Discovery (Sport?) By the roadside a while ago with a flat tyre. It was so low profile it could have been on a Ferrari. Why do they make a model of an off roader with such stupidly thin tyres I wonder :wink:

Because they are driven by women who would rather push me and my zed into a ditch than risk getting mud on their tyres!

:rofl: :rofl: About right

 

[BMWZ4MC]

I had an OEM rear spring fail in 2009 at 2.5 years old and fewer than 30k miles. I’ve since had a KW rear spring fail after almost 50k miles at ten years old.

 

[Bing]

I had a spring fail on my MR a while ago, maybe a year... At that point the car was 16 years old and on about 106k, and they were the originals.