Matt Hopkins
Winger
Made of shite Chinese metal, rust through on age not so much miles
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Car mechanics SR3 area + advice needed
- Thread starter Guitar Man
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The car is only 8 years old. I have had far older and higher mileage cars with no issues with springs.
Aftermarket springs cost peanuts these days so can go quite quick . If its original that's 8 years . They may park half on the pavement every night and do it at speed.
I've never bought one for any of my cars but I've also sold thousands . Maybe the top bearing is gone and the top of the spring been moving as well as compressing
buster
Striker
Had my offside front spring snap will waiting at the lights at the silver link roundabout years ago , it was like a gunshot going off it was that loud.
Got out and had a look and it left the tyre about 20mm from the wing , turned round and drove it straight to the garage in Bede Ind estate for them to get fixed , surprised the tunnel staff didn’t stop me it looked that odd.
Got both sides done but no geometry check or adjustment.
Got out and had a look and it left the tyre about 20mm from the wing , turned round and drove it straight to the garage in Bede Ind estate for them to get fixed , surprised the tunnel staff didn’t stop me it looked that odd.
Got both sides done but no geometry check or adjustment.
black cat in france
Striker
Lads for your safetys sake. Equivalent of only asking the cobbler to only sole and heel one shoe.
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A starting point of Oil and filter every 10k or yearly, regards of higher intervals, and other items like pugs, air as and when according to interval.
I buy decent branded springs for my own motors, genuine or Sachs etc, worth the premium. Fitting shite like NAPA etc is false economy.
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Compare them on a bench and they're nowt like each other . Mechanics must have a nightmare fitting them .
Cobbling a shoe isn't £80 a pop though
No one fits one wiper ( some do mind ) cos they're 20 quid a pair .
If you were swapping spring through end of life yes do both . 90% of spring swap are due to s
breaks . . You wouldn't notice the difference driving it between 2 new and 1 new.
Of course manufacturers recommend a pair, that's their business ££. Unless you asked them to no garage would swap out both. Saying that they would look at the other side and advise if they thought necessary
arthursboy
Striker
A mate of mine had a garage not long ago his biggest failure was springs, assume it’s the roads conditions these days and lack of repairs
My last 3 cars I’ve had to change the front springs, the bairns just had hers done also.
I’ve always had them changed in pairs
My last 3 cars I’ve had to change the front springs, the bairns just had hers done also.
I’ve always had them changed in pairs
League Wan
Winger
Must be a weakness on those qasaqai as me mar had hers done twice. I have had rear springs before but that was an estate car and pretty high mileage. The bairns car has just needed a spring at 40k before we bought it. As said it'll be all those speed bumps and pot holes
I wouldn't fit them on my car if they were free.
Very common on FiestasI've had two springs snap on me, both times went through the tyre.
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