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In total agreement with you there..... however, modifying a spring does not make it "broken, damaged or poorly mounted/secured" ....... if it has been shortened and not had the end re-shaped then yes, it could fail for the reason you give, however a shortened spring is not IN ITSELF a reason for failiure. In fact the MOT tester could not be expected to decide if a spring has been shortened. Indeed. The point I was trying to make is that simply cutting a spring would (depending on the shape of the original spring) be a potential point of MOT failure. Properly shortened springs are not a problem from that point of view. Although... I still don't like cut springs, even if they have been reshaped, because they can lead to some pretty nasty bottoming out incidents. |
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collapsed rear sus dave. cant imagine how that happened. what happened to ure merc badge lol
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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you know.  and these good people don't need to. ;D ;D ;D |
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Just been talking to a friend about this very subject and he reminded me of an incident that scared the hell out of us at the time.
A mutual friend decided to lower his Spitfire by the scariest method I've ever encountered. He basically assaulted the front springs with his brazing torch, with the weight of the car on it's wheels. Basically the springs will effectively sag if you do this. Yup the car was lower, but scarilly enough the suspension was softer which certainly made the handling interesting. And the springing didn't seem to be the same on each side. Given that the springs weren't a nice constant spiral anymore the rates were probably changing as they compressed, and of course they might have lowered the same amount but they wouldn't be identically shaped.
Worse was to come though. About two months later while taking a sharp left hander he hit a bump and the offside front spring broke. He demolished several yards of hedgerow and did considerable damage to his Spit.
Oh well.
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