As our roads descend into the quality of the average cart track, broken springs provide me with many beer tokens.
However, some events are more 'entertaining' than others.
Take this 2001 406 estate. Came to me on the back of a tow truck, with the noise so low it was resting on the front plastic valance. Both springs broken, surely, I thought.
Anyway, on jacking it up, it was only the nearside one that had broken.
These cars have a large diameter spring - but its wound down to quite a small diameter at the bottom. This is where it had broken.
However, the larger part of the spring coil had descended down the strut, and on the way down it had:
Severed the brake hydraulic line
Chopped the pad indicator wear cables
Chopped the ABS signal wire
Cracked the toothed reluctor wheel on the driveshaft end
And finally, puncured the drive shaft CV boot
Oh what fun! The owner wasn't best pleased.
John
However, some events are more 'entertaining' than others.
Take this 2001 406 estate. Came to me on the back of a tow truck, with the noise so low it was resting on the front plastic valance. Both springs broken, surely, I thought.
Anyway, on jacking it up, it was only the nearside one that had broken.
These cars have a large diameter spring - but its wound down to quite a small diameter at the bottom. This is where it had broken.
However, the larger part of the spring coil had descended down the strut, and on the way down it had:
Severed the brake hydraulic line
Chopped the pad indicator wear cables
Chopped the ABS signal wire
Cracked the toothed reluctor wheel on the driveshaft end
And finally, puncured the drive shaft CV boot
Oh what fun! The owner wasn't best pleased.
John
