Probably a daft question

Post Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:57 pm

I noticed today whilst i had the car jacked up that the coil springs on the front have been cut innit bruv

MOT is due in 2 weeks is this a fail, will they notice ?

Post Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:04 am

fail if they notice

Post Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:37 pm

They will notice. And it will fail.

Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:51 am

The car will NOT fail because the springs are cut. It WILL fail if the springs are insecure,cut or otherwise. I;E if they can be 'unseated' when the the suspension is on full droop.

Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:51 pm

pacerpete wrote:The car will NOT fail because the springs are cut. It WILL fail if the springs are insecure,cut or otherwise. I;E if they can be 'unseated' when the the suspension is on full droop.

yes they can

dont get why people cut them

Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:05 pm

for lows innit

just depends if the mot guy notices, mine had one OEM spring that had been cut and one lowered spring that was uncut, passed MOT as the chap obviously didnt notice.

As soon as i noticed i swapped them out for a patching pair though

Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:43 pm

Alex wrote:
pacerpete wrote:The car will NOT fail because the springs are cut. It WILL fail if the springs are insecure,cut or otherwise. I;E if they can be 'unseated' when the the suspension is on full droop.
yes they can

dont get why people cut them

How does the tester know they are cut if they are properly seated ?

PS Alex, next time you need some bodged up rubbish, give me a shout , I have a garden full of them . At least a nice man will benefit from your insatiable appetite for sorry scrap

Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 9:16 pm

This is the least scrap ive had pete, non sunroof 2 door for a start

yes they can be unseated when up in the air

The "RIDE" needs sorting out bounces around like a euro cock.

Foooking flys with a 320i box and 320i diff

I would like to have a look in your back passage i imagine it would turn me on

Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 9:45 pm

pacerpete wrote:The car will NOT fail because the springs are cut. It WILL fail if the springs are insecure,cut or otherwise. I;E if they can be 'unseated' when the the suspension is on full droop.

i believe they can fail it for an 'incomplete spring' or similar as broken springs are seemingly so common these days.

my e36 failed, about half of the bottom coil on the nsf had snapped. i had spotted it but didnt have time to swap it over, assuming as it was still seated ok and didnt come loose when jacked up.

unfortunately they did spot it and it failed. i suppose the rough and clean bare metal end was a bit obvious though