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blade7

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I've recommended KW V3's plenty of times here, since fitting a brand new kit around 12 years ago. Anyway it's MOT time, and while giving the car the once over I notice one of the front springs is broken near the bottom. Checked the opposite side, and that spring was snapped in the same place :(. So had to order 2 new springs, a bit salty at £142 delivered. The car has only done around 20k dry road miles, with the kit on. Seems a bit premature to me.
 
Both springs were snapped on the side facing the inner wing, so I guess they they could have been like that for a while. I paid £1130 for the kit.
 
Yikes... broken springs are a safety issue regardless of how quickly it happens. And broken springs are a result of metal fatigue - something that shouldn't happen on a road car unless its been seriously abused over rough terrain for many thousands of miles and/or massive potholes. I think this is an issue for the manufacturer's QA department.
 
bmnelsc said:
Yikes... broken springs are a safety issue regardless of how quickly it happens. And broken springs are a result of metal fatigue - something that shouldn't happen on a road car unless its been seriously abused over rough terrain for many thousands of miles and/or massive potholes. I think this is an issue for the manufacturer's QA department.
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You'd better talk to Ford, Renault and Vauxhall then. I've changed broken coil springs on all of those.
 
That's pretty bad. Your Fords, Renaults and Vauxhalls are mostly made of chocolate and balsa wood so no real surprise but would expect much better from KW.

I got new front springs for my GAZ set up a last year, £25 a side. Old ones were good after 10 years apart from coating flaking off and a bit of corrosion. Only changed them really as I wanted them a bit less stiff. Also probably worth mentioning GAZ did a full rebuild on the fronts for £50 a side and paid for the return delivery.

Cheers

Stuart
 
I wouldn't be surprised if KW buy their springs in, I just couldn't be bothered to phone around hunting for their supplier. I did wonder if their springs being ground flat on the bottom, contributed to their failures?
 
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