D9 406 HDi 90 Estate - Coil Spring went bang!!

[skylinemv]

Heard a bang yesterday outside the front of the house thought a shooting was happening but no gunmen. Looked at the car thirty minutes later and it looked remarkably low, upon inspection sure enough the passengerside coil had cracked at the bottom

Seen a few posts on here with the same problem at the same mileage what an pain

Anyway ordered a complete unit from ebay for £60 and spent today stripping out the old one.

The only casualty was the upper link arm to anti role bar, some things just don't budge at 123k.

Just waiting for the delivery and making a list of the sundaries like gearbox oil, nuts bolts etc.

Will update when she is fixed.

[steve_earwig]

What is it, have Peugeot got some sort of remote control to make all our springs break?? Getting worried about driving it tomorrow...

[Welly]

Frigging hell

[mjb]

What is it, have Peugeot got some sort of remote control to make all our springs break??

...and blower motors!

[steve_earwig]

I'm not so worried about blower motors, I don't think a blower motor failure could put me upside-down in a ditch.

[Welly]

I'm not so worried about blower motors, I don't think a blower motor failure could put me upside-down in a ditch.

You're quite right - but you'd be COLD and upside-down in a ditch

[steve_earwig]

True, but only as long as it took the car to catch fire.

[Welly]

True, but only as long as it took the car to catch fire.

What do you mean "catch" fire

[mjb]

True, but only as long as it took the car to catch fire.

What do you mean "catch" fire

Good point. You need things like ignition of combustible material and/or electricity for fire, neither of which D9s tend to do very well...

[steve_earwig]

Red hot manifold + dot 4 brake fluid = fire. Anyway, diesel burns, I've used it to get the boiler going.

[teamster1975]

What do you mean "catch" fire

Good old 3rd party fire and theft

This is getting me worried now, I don't think mine has ever had replacement springs.

[Welly]

This is getting me worried now, I don't think mine has ever had replacement springs.

Don't worry Teamy - yours is a D8 and they never go wrong, right?

[teamster1975]

This is getting me worried now, I don't think mine has ever had replacement springs.

Don't worry Teamy - yours is a D8 and they never go wrong, right?

Oh bugger
I've spent £300 on parts putting it right since I bought it! Worth it though

[rapport25]

I had mine go around two years ago. I would say at around 100,000 miles Just got in the car heard an almighty bang as i went to reverse it was only as i drove a min down the road i wondered what the rubbing sound was and sure enough the spring had snapped on th o/s thank god i was not traveling along at high speed as i doubt i would be typing this now

[puggy]

might as well throw my two penny worth in , after working all day
on it looks like my blower motor has given up