About 2 years ago my front right spring shed part of an end (I'd heard a clang, and saw it bouncing down the road after me). My regular garage fitted a replacement, and I kept the broken end as a paperweight

Yesterday, while pulling up on my driveway, I found another broken end, laying where the front right wheel rests when the car is parked up. I've attached 2 photos of the broken bits - the newer spring is the upper one, and the photos show both sides of the springs.

What's puzzled me is that they've both broken practically at the same point.

The car serviced and MoT'ed last week, with no advisories about the suspension, and I've booked the car back in for a replacement spring this coming Saturday.

Any ideas why the springs would fail in the same place?

That's pretty random, is that the upper or lower end of the spring?

This happened to my gps 1.9 a few years ago. Id say it was about the same amount of coil that's broken off yours. Dunno how common it is for this to happen.

Mine went (passenger side) just like that. Must be something in the design of the suspension/spring which means that's where they go I suspect

Thats quite strange, mine has snapped at the bottom and it looks to be a very similar break as your in the photos :O *conspiracies*

I was told by the guys that repaired mine that it was probably a combination of three things:
- rust (mine were the original 2006 springs)
- the bottom coil gets more of a beating from where it sits in the strut
- if there was dirt/stone or something underneath the bottom coil then that adds to the pressure

Hi did say that he's changing more and more front springs on small cars and but rare on older cars. Wonder what that's about?

Just had a quick Google - seems we're not alone AA

Thanks for all the replies - I'm a little more reassured that "that's how they seem to break" as opposed to some weird underlying problem (other than our roads are terrible).

I am now the less-puzzled owner of 2 paperweights

Put some hose pipe round the bottom coil of the spring should make it last longer ?