Comments on: Coil Spring Damage

By: Tight Mark

Tight Mark — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:08:05 +0000

If you buy a part that is non vauxhall, why would you expect Vauxhall to put it right? surely you should be moaning to the manufacturer of such a part and not the make of the vehicle that its on? I wouldnt pay vauxhall prices for parts but I wouldnt moan to them about faulty products that are not made by them……..

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:29:50 +0000

The fella that says you cant blame or claim off youre mechanic is 100% right
i own a small independent garage in kent and if you told the customer everything that was corroded on theyre vehicle they would straight away assume you where trying to rip them off for uneccessary works.
what some of you have quoted for road spring repairs is obscene i may add
parts are ‘generally between £25-£60 a corner and labour for ‘most’ vehicles around an hour
so please , £390 for a spring replace , think you need to be having talks with youre mechanics !
i get most of my work from women and older people as im straight and only charge for the work i actually do!
shame someother garages are not the same especially main stealers !

By: Hayley

Hayley — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:08:27 +0000

Hi there,

I’ve just put my Car in to b MOT and it has failed as it needs a new rear road spring. Would I have known by the driving if something was wrong? I never noticed anything different and not sure if they are just using a common fault in cars to get money out of me?

Thanks,

Hayley

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:00:48 +0000

just taken my car to garage and had rear coil snap diagnosed. Peugeot 307 £58 parts and labour replace. No it wasn’t obvious it had gone – a few strange noises but not conistent and not identified by the AA man who drove it round for 20 minutes 2 days previous as I was concerned about the noises and we were a long way from home with a long drive to get us back.

By: kaye

kaye — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:18:31 +0000

I have just had my car MOT’d and it passed although have been told an advisory the rear coils are corroded and i qoute “with these cars it will snap!” Having read all your comments i am now wondering whether to get them fixed or get rid of the car. It is an 03 vectra with 90,000 on the clock and i have owned it for a year.There are loads of speed bumps where i live so know that i really have no time to decide my childrens safety is paramount and am now scared to drive the car just incase!

By: Gstrickland

Gstrickland — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:46:56 +0000

Pulling out of a car park space in our 2005 Peugeot 207 HDi and there was a huge “bang” from the front, so I stopped to think what had happened. I tried to pull forward but there was big resistance. I got out to find I had a flat tyre.

Thinking it was just a flat tyre, I thought I would at least be able to pull forward a little to get out of everyones way and change the tyre. The car refused to move. So I thought “driveshaft”.

With cars trying to get around us, I jacked up the front and tried to turn the wheel by hand. No go. Jacked it up further and noticed the front spring had broke. No chance of doing much with that.

The front spring had in fact broke at the first bottom coil (a complete coils worth). The sharp end of the spring that was left punctured the front tyre blowing that out (long rip on inner side wall) and the spring end then jammed itself into the Ali wheel rim. Hence no forward movement. If we had of been going at speed, it could have been fatal. Just as well it happened pulling out of the car park space.

So had to reverse the car (effectively pulling the spring end out of the tyre) and into another car park space which had conveniently become available right behind us.

Breakdown came and lifted the car to the local Peugeot dealership where it was repaired (£272.61)

I thought we were just unlucky with our car. It appears we are one of 1,000′s being affected by this problem. Until very recently, we had a speed hump just yards from our front driveway made of cobble stones… unrelated? I think not.

By: Sandra Marks

Sandra Marks — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:04:29 +0000

I just took my Ford Fiesta which is 10 years old for a service and MOT at my local Ford dealer as usual. They informed me that my rear coil spring needed replacement and was an MOT failure. They wanted £179 to replace it which I don’t have this week on top of the service cost. They have cancelled my current MOT which still had 2 weeks left leaving me to pick up my car and drive it home illegally. My son said he can replace the coil spring for me which will cost me £30 for the parts. Needless to say, this garage has just lost a long-standing customer.

By: Graham Gamston

Graham Gamston — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:04:26 +0000

I have a vectra c sri on 07 plate and my offside coil spring snapped on me while parking up, and what i have read from your storys thank god i had just left the motorway. Having both springs replaced as a matter of safety but will be wary of driving it after seeing what has been said so far. Vauxhall hang your head in shame, Graham.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:56:13 +0000

RE my last post front offside coil spring — my car is a 2004 Ford Mondeo Ghia with 87000 miles on clock

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:46:32 +0000

Yeterday heard a bang from front off side wing – and a knocking noise there after . Called AA straight away he said coil spring has gone. I ask if I could drive 50 miles home in that condition – Lets just say he could not advise me to drive home or that it is safe to do so as it could be dangerous. I was towed home – I called ford this morning to get a quote to replace both springs. They wanted £90 for each spring plus fitting – £350 – £400 . Went to my local mechanic supply and fit both £170 all in