Uneven ride height

[Marnit]

Wondering if this is a normal situation or not ?

Yesterday I noticed that the o/s rear of my mk2 face lift estate was lower than usual so I suspected a broken spring.

Sure enough the spring on that corner had snapped right near the bottom so I have spent an hour today and replaced

both rear springs, this has raised the ride height on both sides  but the o/s is still slightly lower by maybe 15mm.

All of the rubbers are present and in good condition and both front springs look fine, I assume that is should be level side to side but should it ?

Any ideas folks ?

[CWARD]

I assume you checked both springs before fitting to ensure they were same and the supplier hasn't given you a mismatched pair for spring rate or length. A quick drive around also settles the suspension if you haven't done so already.

[Marnit]

Yes both checked and have the same part number etc and still the same after 50 miles or so. If I can't work out what is going on I 

will swap the springs side to side and see what happens.

[silver1011]

Have you removed those two bags of coal from the boot!? 

Edited 6 February, 2016 by silver1011

[Marnit]

To be fair it does work hard, I basically used it as a posh van, probably the reason the spring broke 

in the first place .