Hi guys, 

    Had a horrible jingling noise the other day ....the bottom of my front drivers spring broke..... now .....I know it will need replacing but actually it would seem almost a full rotation has broken but the spring is seated perfectly in the metal cup bit ....now apart from maybe the car being an inch lower on front right ....I'm thinking this is fine to drive for now as .,,,if someone lowers their own suspension....the springs can be cut down right? The spring cannot be moved by hand and is seated nicely 

Yep, just take it a bit easy 'til you get round to swapping it, as the car will behave a little unevenly under heavy braking/steering.

cheers

I'm not one myself but I don't think people who lower their cars actually cut the springs. They just get shorter ones

 

I've had two broken springs over this winter. Be particularly careful on twisty roads at speed as the front might wiggle about.... Also, a good mechanic's tip was to try and stay away from having to turn sharply on bumpy or off-road kind of terrain, even going up and down kerbs as the spring may come out of its seating. 

 

This is what mine looked like when they took it up on the lift for the replacement.

 

 

As stated previously, don't try any Dukes of Hazzard stunts and you'll be fine provided the spring is still contained within strut cup.

 

In my experience the lower pigtail snaps off and sits in the cup.

 

The spring has pigtails at both ends so couldn't be cut to a shorter length and still fit properly.

 

I would suggest you use the resources on this site to correctly identify which springs you need and then source the best price online, OE VAG are expensive.

Looks like it might be 1K0411105BC judging by the paint marks, and referring to here: https://skoda.7zap.com/en/cz/octavia/oct/2005-419/4/411-411000/#1 check the PR-codes 2UA and L13 against what is on your boot sticker.

Many thx guys 

10 hours ago, MicMac said:

As stated previously, don't try any Dukes of Hazzard stunts and you'll be fine provided the spring is still contained within strut cup.

 

In my experience the lower pigtail snaps off and sits in the cup.

 

The spring has pigtails at both ends so couldn't be cut to a shorter length and still fit properly.

 

I would suggest you use the resources on this site to correctly identify which springs you need and then source the best price online, OE VAG are expensive.

Yes there was a bit sitting in the cup ....jingling every time I went over a bump, managed to get it out ....then it appeared the spring was pearched up on a tiny jagged edge which in the next journey must have broken off ....leaving almost a full spring turn sitting nicely in the cup as per the picture 

14 hours ago, Inex said:

I'm not one myself but I don't think people who lower their cars actually cut the springs. They just get shorter ones

 

I've had two broken springs over this winter. Be particularly careful on twisty roads at speed as the front might wiggle about.... Also, a good mechanic's tip was to try and stay away from having to turn sharply on bumpy or off-road kind of terrain, even going up and down kerbs as the spring may come out of its seating. 

 

This is what mine looked like when they took it up on the lift for the replacement.

 

 

Many thx.....can I ask .....what sort of cost did you find for the repairs? 

I took the opportunity to do the springs and shocks all around. They were all original and really tired; the car was also sagging in the back... I have attached the bill for parts. (You might need front dust covers too)

 

Please keep in mind you need to specifically check the thickness of the front shocks. The heavy 2.0 petrol and Diesel have the thicker ones. Do check with them first if you end up buying from them. 

 

I spent the equivalent of 400 British pounds on parts from autodoc. (All Bilstein except stabilisers and covers which are Monroe)

 

Another 130 pounds in labour to a very cheap independent. Pretty easy job ☺️. Good luck!

 

I'm happy with the parts so far... Can't feel difference from OEM.

This is a bit worrying ,these reports of broken springs, I drive with mechanical sympathy ,and try not to kerb or bump up and down kerbs,even to the extent of not driving out of way of the emergency services.

 

Should I worry about this happening in future?

My Scout has just failed the MOT on a broken spring, still after 175k miles for a first suspension failure it isn't too bad.

On 26/04/2018 at 22:33, Inex said:

I took the opportunity to do the springs and shocks all around. They were all original and really tired; the car was also sagging in the back... I have attached the bill for parts. (You might need front dust covers too)

 

Please keep in mind you need to specifically check the thickness of the front shocks. The heavy 2.0 petrol and Diesel have the thicker ones. Do check with them first if you end up buying from them. 

 

I spent the equivalent of 400 British pounds on parts from autodoc. (All Bilstein except stabilisers and covers which are Monroe)

 

Another 130 pounds in labour to a very cheap independent. Pretty easy job ☺️. Good luck!

 

I'm happy with the parts so far... Can't feel difference from OEM.

I have been to Denmark a few times and found it very very very expensive lol ....the equivalent of £530 for full new shocks and springs fitted ....sounds pretty cheap :-) 

It is.... Because I've gone out of my way to find the best place to do these things and with my own parts. Otherwise it would have been more than double.... 

 

Colleague of mine spent more than that just to Change the front springs only