VRSmarty

Thanks for the replies everyone. Was 2 minutes into my journey to the garage this morning and TWANG! Drivers side spring went! Couldnt make it up. About 50 miles after the passenger side. At least both sides are done and its driving much sweeter now.

Cheers. Sachs site is saying the part number should be 993 053. Just trying to get as much info before I take it back tomorrow.

Thanks Langers. It didn't sit right(no pun intended) with me that they were happy replacing one side only but they assured me it wouldn't be an issue. Hi Gissin, yes, it's the CEGA. That would be great, cheers.

Hi folks, looking for some help from you super knowledgeable people. Recently snapped the front near side spring on my Octavia VRS CR170 estate and had the spring, top mount and drop link replaced at my local garage. Done some local driving and it was fine but got it up to motorway speeds and it felt unstable and was wandering a bit so was going to book a Hunter wheel alignment as I've been wanting to do this for a while anyway but it crossed my mind that the garage might have put the wrong spring on so went out with the measuring tape and it was sitting about 16mm higher. Took it to a flat carpark as I live on a bit of a hill and it was only about 5mm out. Everywhere I try and measure it I get a different result! It's going back to the original garage tomorrow for them to take a look but the part number for the spring they've used is 627780520(sachs part) is this the correct part no? Thanks in advance

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