[V8] Broken H&R springs

[Scott DeWitt]

I would imagine if the upper bearing is seized, it could cause the spring to 
twist.

I had H&R springs on my 5K for 150K miles no problem at all, although it's 
several hundred pounds less.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carter Johnson" <carterjohnson3 at yahoo.com>
To: <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:41 PM
Subject: [V8] Broken H&R springs


> Yes, well - having some experience here....
>
>  It seems to me that the spring broke because of tortional stress (this 
> may be obvious to everyone, but I've been wondering why it happened) 
> created by the steering system.  This is the only explaination I can come 
> up with.  My front right spring broke, and I don't drive the car hard 
> (except at the WDS, but they are impact-driving anyways), so it made no 
> sense to me.  The spring sheared as if it was twisted off.
>
>  I'm not sure if yours is a similar senario, but it is interesting that it 
> happened to 2 other cars recently as well.  My car has 237,000 miles and 
> is stock (came with G60's, Dave...) so that shouldn't have mattered, and 
> didn't even have gravity/physics defying tires on it when it broke, so 
> that can't explain it either...
>
> Carter
>
>
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