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Chat Area => Omega Gallery => Topic started by: ted_one on 10 August 2016, 08:34:40
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That's shocking, considering that's worse than my MV6 springs of some 15-odd years vintage :o
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This isn't going to help, but I've found it interesting for ages:
Spring failure is common on lots of recent cars. The main culprits(Mk6 Fiesta, C3, Laguna, Mondeo) can usually be diagnosed over the phone, but the majority of the ones I saw were on low-mileage/usage cars. That is something that I don't have a good explanation for.
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Really strange, that in all my 15 years of Omega ownership I have had only one spring failure and that was on a car that I had owned for 12 years.Perhaps there might be something in what Nick says :-\
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I must admit I had 3 go on that rubbish Vectra I had >:(
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I had a bad experience with KYB, they snapped very early on. But Boge ones fitted now in both mine are lasting very well, must be 5 years now, no signs of serious corrosion either.
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I had a bad experience with KYB, they snapped very early on. But Boge ones fitted now in both mine are lasting very well, must be 5 years now, no signs of serious corrosion either.
Both the rear KYB's where snapped on a car a picked up earlier in the year, looking at it you would never know as they both snapped in the same place (pigtail) so the car sat level! Swapped the lot over from my written off 2.6 so it sits on MV6 and Bilstein B4's now.
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Going to keep a close eye on these Pedders springs,can't do much about that as they have been fitted,but also on the tear down Serek found that one of the Pedders top mount bushes was on borrowed time, although the other one had been changed...it seems that Pedders quality is looking a bit iffy ::)
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If they are poly and have torn, that's because there's no give, and the bush is the weakest link, could be why springs have gone, (it's too stiff, :o oo Er missus), might need to check turrets next time it's a sereks.
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I ad an OE spring snap on my Elite a few years back. Not cool.
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Believe my missus' parents' Fiesta has been through 6 springs in about 5 years.
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Believe my missus' parents' Fiesta has been through 6 springs in about 5 years.
Is it a mk6 that doesn't get used much? That was the most common example of broken springs I saw, closely followed by Citroen C3s, and then Lagunas when they were still a common car.
The bigger Fords do break springs, but with less obvious symptoms - the broken end is less likely to rub through the tyre and it's only noticed when the car is jacked up for other work.
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I think it is Mk 6, yes. All rear, I think, And a mate at work's front spring went, and as you probably well know, the spring fliest past the strut, and jabs in the tyre. Much burning rubber smoke occurred before he pulls into work with a half-inch deep groove in the tyrewall! Silly sod! He thought the exhaust was broken!
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I ad an OE spring snap on my Elite a few years back. Not cool.
Original Elite SL springs are notorious for snapping the pigtails off.
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I think it is Mk 6, yes. All rear, I think, And a mate at work's front spring went, and as you probably well know, the spring fliest past the strut, and jabs in the tyre. Much burning rubber smoke occurred before he pulls into work with a half-inch deep groove in the tyrewall! Silly sod! He thought the exhaust was broken!
Fronts are much more common on Fiestas.
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I'll ask her to check, then. You're probably right, and it's all the fronts, I just heard "Ford" and "broken" and my mind tends to wander.... ;D
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I ad an OE spring snap on my Elite a few years back. Not cool.
Original Elite SL springs are notorious for snapping the pigtails off.
Took my 2.6 Elite for an MOT last month, and got the 'beckoning finger' from the MOT man. Fearing the worst, but he just pointed out both rear springs were broken at the bottom pigtail. The car sat ok, and I had been none the wiser. Could have been worse, I suppose. Last time I got a broken spring on another Omega, I only knew about it when I found the broken part of the coil at the top of the drive. Thinking it had fallen from some unlucky persons car driving past, I then looked at it closely, and realising it was GM, my heart began to sink. And it actually was one of mine...... :-\
On this occasion, on the 2.6, I know they were the GM originals from new with the LA ident on them, and I don't even tow with this car.
But true, they are notorious for breaking on the first coil of the pigtail....