Yep, the coil on the front passenger side of the Rondo snapped and collapsed overnight last night. Went to drive it this morning and the thing looked stanced. Parts were laying in the driveway under the car. WTF?
Had it towed, hoping that this is a warranty repair, just glad it didn't happen on the road at 80mph!
Co-worker heard a BANG! outside, and found his early late90's/early00's Pontiac Grand Prix "stanced" like yours. Apparently common on these.
Rond ho.. Say it ain't so.
Wow.
I have seem evidence of broken springs in a similar manner, but always on cars far older and rustier than that.
Back in the 90s, a friend of mine had the front torsion bar break on his year-old PN96 F-150. Same thing, came out to the parking lot and it was down in the left front corner. Apparently they had a run of bad parts.
neat.. in that one pic of the broken spring, you can see where the break started.. that one spot with what looks like rust in it was probably a factory defect that acted as a stress riser... it could have gone at any time from the moment someone in a sweat shop somewhere put that spring on that strut..
Springs are highly stressed with the highest stress at the outside, so that rust spot is almost certainly the cause. I'd at least give the rest a thorough inspection.
I had a leaf of a spring pack break at a stoplight once. Just sitting there and "PNNNGGG." F150. It wasn't even rusty.
On a 4 year old '99 Taurus.
My sister had it happen on a 1-year-old Chevette.
Then again... it was a Chevette.
Six year old caravan, nuts.
Common issue with springs really, some fail out of the blue, some never do.
This is probably in retaliation for your Rondoing....
RX8driver wrote: Springs are highly stressed with the highest stress at the outside, so that rust spot is almost certainly the cause. I'd at least give the rest a thorough inspection.
Maybe not cause, but evidence of a crack forming. Small crack works water in and the contant motion makes a little powder which rusts more easily than solid steel.
Had an airbag blow right next to me on a front discharge Oshkosh cement mixer. Sounded just like a shotgun.
Now... where did the lower spring perch go?!?
In reply to MadScientistMatt:
Its up there by the top of the tire.
Your abs wire is threaded through your coil spring and there are rub marks on the spring and the tire.
Almost like it broke while you were driving forward and dropped onto the tire then corkscrewed downward by rubbing on the tire, looping the end under the abs wire in the process.
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