Coil Spring faults

[staffsmod]

Hi everyone. I'm looking for some advice/knowledge/opinions about Fabia coil springs.

I had my front nearside coil snap a couple of years ago when my car was 3½ (outside warranty) and had only done 17500 miles and the front offside has just gone and I'm only at ~23k miles and just over 5 years. Most of those miles have been done on my own carefully around town with occasional motorway trips.

Does that sound like a normal timescale? Is this something that commonly goes wrong on Fabia's? The Skoda dealership paid 75% the first time round. Should I be demandimg they do the same this time?

Thoughts welcome

[Ootohere]

Did you get a new pair on the first time?   you should have done both sides.

 

Does careful around town include Speeds Humps and Potholes because even carefully springs can break.

 

You can only ask about getting any money off, but i would doubt it at over 5 years old.

Since you paid some of the cost first time, ie 25%

the springs really were under a 2 year Warranty.

 

You want the suspension properly checked now.

 

? Is it a Diesel ? ie Heavier.

Edited 9 February, 2015 by goneoffSKi

[staffsmod]

Thanks for the reply. No it's petrol. Yes does include potholes and some speed bumps (luckily not too many round here). They only did the one side before.

[Ootohere]

Well that was not such a good idea,

and no surprise that the other side has gone now.

 

They often say they can only fix what is broken, etc etc. 'We only get Warranty to Replace 1.',  Then they ripped you off for 25%.

 But seldom do they only replace one spring on their own cars,

[staffsmod]

Yeah, that's what happened. I would've liked both done but the Skoda dealer was just too expensive and I assumed that any issues would be spotted at MOT/service. Oh well time to start ringing garages! Thanks for your input.

[cybermanbrian]

"Honest John" in the Saturday Telegraph regularly bangs on about poorly manufactured coil springs:-

 

 

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/faq/broken-coil-springs/

 

 

Brian

[PristineReflections]

any decent garage should be able to do them pretty cheap. this is why I crawl over speed bumps!! 

[Lee]

The OH had both front springs on her Fiesta replaced only last week. Parts were £20 ea and labour was reasonable.

[staffsmod]

Just had a quote from one garage £250 for both side done. Seems a bit steep to me...