Hi walked up to my car yesterday morning and it made this almighty metallic bang :( after investingation found the drivers side rear spring had snapped. As I use the car over a number of different terrians (nan lives on a farm with a poor drive) I want to fit a standard spring and was wondering where is the best place to get one? As there seems to be some confusion at my local motor factors regarding it being 4x4 and a hatch not the estate. Any help apprciated.

Cheers Dan

Hi walked up to my car yesterday morning and it made this almighty metallic bang :( after investingation found the drivers side rear spring had snapped. As I use the car over a number of different terrians (nan lives on a farm with a poor drive) I want to fit a standard spring and was wondering where is the best place to get one? As there seems to be some confusion at my local motor factors regarding it being 4x4 and a hatch not the estate. Any help apprciated.

Cheers Dan

you should replace in pairs, as the new firmer spring will expedite the life span of the other original one left, plus the handling wont match properly. Either skoda or tps?

Wondering whether to nite the bullet and fit aftermarket springs as fully set of apex cost less than 2 rear springs :(

You get what you pay for.

And a lot of aftermarket suspension stuff is confusing as to what models it really is for (twice I had vRS Estate kits that don't actually fit vRS Estates ).

Unless you specifically want to go lower, or spend money to actually improve the suspension, your best bet is to go stock, and as Luca said, in pairs.

If you change springs, you'll need to change shocks too

... thing is, then you ARB's will be woefully under-rated now

If you're driving rough rural roads you don't want to have hard and low suspension

Lowering to roughly equivalent to stock vrs height still gives plenty off articulation space though -and sump not too close to the deck

ps

When you go lower, you need to uprate the rear tie bars too

iirc you can use the R32 one if only going slightly lower

I have the r32 arb's fitted, how much lowering would the 4x4 need to make vrs height? I understand I would need shocks to match the springs. How much would the r32 spring and shocks lower the 4x4 by do you know? Cheers Dan

_{Does anyone know what the difference in the springs is between the 4x4 estate and the 4x4 hatch? Is it just a difference in length or thicker coils? Cheers Dan}

The rear springs on the estate are rated much higher iirc, to account for potentially higher load