What Caused My Springs To Do This

[tomboy]

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This was the front spring taken off our 2000 X reg MK1 172 with 20k

We have since changed them to Eibachs but I would like to make sure that this doesnt happen again

Any ideas comments/welcome

H

 

[Mike@Rentech]

Reno springs fail all the time just like this one has, I recon its down to poor quality metal, and also look at the amount of rust on it.

 

[BigBoreBri]

Its not uncommon for the springs on valvers / williams to break.

The biggest problem is proably cos its french

 

[riplash]

When I bought my Williams it needed new springs as a result of it rusting and shearing off.. like Mike said, its common for Renaults apparently!!

 

[Kerby]

That looks damn serious, but ye I agree, bad quality springs that maybe wernt finished off on the ends too well. Your Eibachs Should be fine as I have had these on other cars and they are damn sweet, as long as the fitters use a spring compressor that has been maintained well so it wont take the outer coating off as it clamps up!! This happened to me once b4 and corrosion set in.

 

[JAY172]

and your rear springs were ok? now that is rare for a clio 2

 

[tomboy]

The other 3 are near perfect its just this one

When they removed it they didnt tell me which side it was from either

H

 

[JAY172]

probably just a poorly made spring but renaults do seem quite bad for snapping road springs.

 

[weight]

take them to reno and ask them?

 

[edde]

Id say material failure ie manurfacturing fault Ill see what people at work say though.

Its rusting at the bottom so possible the covering (the black stuff) has become ripped at some point by stones etc or by being streched to far if they werent put on correctly.

This caused the spring to become rusted if you look I recon there will be loads of craks from the rusting area upwards. One of the cracks has found the route past that pieces of metal in the center of the spring to the top cracking the spring in half then the spring has failed as its not as stong in two pices.

There is a bit of missing material from the bottom of the spring this could hold the answer to the failure.

Can you get any more pictures of the underside of the spring? ie where the missing bit is from and from the other spring.

I wouldnt worrry by the wa a new spring will be stronger thn the normal one. If you want just keep checking the spring has no cracks etc in the outer covering and if you realy want cover it in some sort of grease or paint which wont dry ie will cover the spring all the time which its moving.

 

[White16valver]

My bros williams snapped a front spring!

 

[BenR]

The ends are exposed and a pitt/chip/crack probably just started corroding.

Natural use of a spring will see it break with stress risers.

But, the path it follows along the coil suggests a manufaturing fault.

 

[JAY172]

normally a coil will just cleanly shear off its weird how the crack is progressing up the spring.

 

[tomboy]

Took the car to Renault this morning

The car s due to be part exd this week for McShugs new cup.

They also seem to think it is a faulty spring as they have never seen one do this before

They are replacing the spring and fitting the Eibachs to the cup free of charge.

I must say a Thank You to our dealer - Russells Eastbourne

H