{"id":2264,"date":"2015-03-08T21:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2022-05-14T20:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T19:09:50","slug":"broken-rear-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/broken-rear-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken rear spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through the joys of wear & tear and British weather, about to drive to work when my rear spring failed on the car. Luckily, I was just driving off the kerb about to head to work when I heard a loud bang. Immediately reversed back onto the kerb because I knew what that sound was.<\/p>\n

Looked on the path and spotted little bits of metal, looked at the arch and it had greatly dropped so knew the spring was gone. I looked under the car with my torch and could see the beam sitting on the spring although didn’t look like it had snapped.<\/p>\n

I called my brother and in between him coming over to look I fished about under where the spring sits and found the other part of it… Yep, definately broke!<\/p>\n

\"spring-beam\"<\/a>
Hmmm, maybe not too bad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nope, I was wrong!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, that I knew the spring was broken, there was definately no way of me being able to get into work at 10pm on a Thursday night. So I just called in and said I wasn’t coming in. Pointless trying really and no way was I driving my car.<\/p>\n

I decided to have an early night and get up early. I went to Durham and purchased 2 new springs from Eurocarparts (made by Anschler for around \u00a330 each). Have to buy them in pairs otherwise the extra load effects the opposite side and eventually breaks it. The springs will be replaced and a write it will be added to the main site. Fingers crossed this is the last wear and tear part I have to replace for a while<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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