Broken spring on Passat CC any input welcomed

[markh802]

Hi, I've just come back from holiday and was going to go for a few pints of milk @ 4am in the morning, I reversed the car off the driveway and bang a loud metallic sound, I dismissed it and thought it may be the brakes seized as can happen got 400yds down the road another bang and part of the spring shot out about 5" long.


I wanted to know what you guys think? do just replace the spring and move on ? the car currently has 70,000mls and has Dcc adaptive suspension.

couple of questions:

1)Is the suspension nearing the end of it's useful life?

2)do I just replace the spring and continue and hope the same does not happen again?

3)Replace all the springs for eibach pro and a little bit of drop or H&R springs 40mm drop and use Audi TT rear spring pad to get rid of the reverse rake that these springs have?

4)Fit coilovers as you get struts and springs included ant then it wont happen again and have the advantage of going a bit lower, I don't want it slammed I'm just looking for a little of the gap closed between the wheel and arch.

KW do a set of coilovers that work with the Dcc adaptive chassis but I don't want to pay that much for them and would fit some middle of the road ones not ebay specials lol but not thousands either, could I get the dcc disabled so no lights on the display?

I've also heard that lowering springs on stock dampers will ruin them although both manufactures say they are compatible.

So what's your honest opinions on which way to go, my local VW independent wants £240 for replacing coilovers or springs and 4 wheel alignment is this a good price?

Cheers for any advice my head is spinning at the minute with the options.

Regards
Mark

[RGambo]

Replace broken spring, carry on with life. That's what I'd do.

[cuprabob]

Broken springs are very common on VAG cars, even newer ones. As said above just replace the spring

[Dr G]

Have a really good close look at the rest while it's in the air but you're probably fine with 1.

Crap roads, salt, cost-cutting blah blah blah.

As bob says it's just one of those things.

[markh802]

Cheers guys, I was thinking about replacing just the 1 and then I went on ebay I ended up ordering the eibach pro springs.

I managed to get them for £111.53 + £11.76 post, I may still get import duty on them yet as there coming from Germany not sure how much that would be but the springs are £222 for a UK supplier.

Booked in for next Monday

[ivaylo]

There's no duty if it's coming from Germany.

[markh802]

ivaylo said:

There's no duty if it's coming from Germany.

Really, Brilliant! at least something is going right for me lol
Thanks for that

[Basil Hume]

markh802 said:

ivaylo said:

There's no duty if it's coming from Germany.

Really, Brilliant! at least something is going right for me lol
Thanks for that

Good old EU.

[markh802]

Lmao I ordered new strut top mounts and bearing as well from amazon, got order status out for delivery for today and then checked later..... item lost by courier please contact us, I'm pretty sure they should be contacting me but I sent them an email so lets see whats happened.

Fantastic what can you say!