Nearside front spring broke ...

as least your dampener didn't spectacularly fail like mine did this morning, que me driving to work with my work boots jammed into the spring to stop the bouncing...
 
Ðudeth said:
Thats the main reason on advising on changing both, changing one would not only put extra stress on the newer spring and possibly damage it, but generally if one goes due to metal fatigue then engineering commonsense would say other wouldnt be far behind. a blow out at high speed is no joke in a car, hgv's can cope much better, but in a car if the front blows u become a passenger
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Indeed, any parts like that should be done in pairs, because youll have one nice new stiff spring and one saggy one thats however many years old on the other side, leading to dodgy handeling, and exessive/premature wear on other parts, such as shocks, bushes and tyres.
 
I love some of the advice you get in this section. :p

If you lot lived in my World you would be to scared to leave your front door. :p

Back in the day we used to take our springs off hack a bit off with a blow torch & then sling them back in & go racing/rashing/jumping bridges etc :D

As for now I changed a broken spring I had on the 5 a few weeks back to get it through an MOT, Front off side. I used a 2nd hand spring & shock & did the job myself, Not dead yet. :eek:
Cost me 20 quid Total. :p

Men/Lads/Boys have changed far to much for my liking.
 
4T5 said:
I love some of the advice you get in this section. :p

If you lot lived in my World you would be to scared to leave your front door. :p

Back in the day we used to take our springs off hack a bit off with a blow torch & then sling them back in & go racing/rashing/jumping bridges etc :D

As for now I changed a broken spring I had on the 5 a few weeks back to get it through an MOT, Front off side. I used a 2nd hand spring & shock & did the job myself, Not dead yet. :eek:
Cost me 20 quid Total. :p

Men/Lads/Boys have changed far to much for my liking.
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My old ZS got a 2nd hand spring/shock/hub when I bent one by driving like a ****.

Always was fine after, handled well enough and didn't notice the difference.
 
Guess what guys.... the nearside spring has gone this morning. Arggghhhh! !!!!
 
I got my nearside and offside confused last time...

The offside (driver's side) went last week.

Today the nearside went.
 
So you posted asking if you should have got both changed, you were advised "yes" by a few people.....you didnt get the other one changed and it broke. Shocker!
 
smr said:
In my OP it says "Anyway I got it fixed today" ... clue much? :p
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Yes, you fixed the one that was broken.

The advice which you asked for was about the one which hadnt broken -

Would it really be that detrimental if I don't have the otherside done
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You were advised they should be done in pairs, but you didnt bother - now the other one has failed.
 
Actually the last post I read in this thread, before today, was mine:

"ok thanks very much for the advice. "

In reply to "seeing how it goes" with the one spring done.

I don't check the Motors forum everyday and I was doing as had been advised by seeing how it went.

Besides all this is really irrelevant. I wasn't expressing how much of a shock I was in at the situation I had found myself with this morning. Merely stating the other spring has indeed gone and asking if I'd found the relevant part from gsf.
 
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