Originally posted by tim935:
How can you tell if your springs ARE busted? My car's beginning to squeak like a cornered mouse, but I think that's just a sign of expired struts.
I had a terrible clunking sound coming from the left front wheel area when that spring broke. Every time I hit a bump of some sort it would clatter. I couldn't feel or see anything. The mechanic raised the car off the ground and then pulled an entire coil out from under the spring, it had just broken off. Just like that.
When the left rear spring broke, I found a piece of it lying on the driveway one day. About a 3 inch section, the front spring broke off a 7 inch piece. One whole revolution up the coil.
Yep. That's Ford Quality!
