Right Front Spring Failure! ( 134979 miles )

A picture paints a thousand words! Fortunately it happened just as I was leaving my driveway while travelling at 5-10 MPH otherwise this could have been really nasty. As you can see, the broken spring tore a hole in the tyre sidewall.

Unfortunately replacement springs for an M-Sport are not held in stock and have to be specially ordered from Germany with a 7-10 day ETA. So I ordered a pair along with a new tyre. I don’t believe in replacing springs on one side only so my intention was to get the car mobile again by replacing the broken spring but then follow that up soon afterwards with the other side.

Strut Removed

Computer Not Happy

This looked more worrying that it turned out to be and was just the result of having mismatched ride height and a wheel that stopped turning suddenly. That caused a chain reaction of other fault codes.

More Warning Lights!

New parts arrived and were fitted

New Rubber Components Too