Broke a coil today

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Dr. Overkill

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I broke a coil spring today.... Hit this section of freeway that is a short bridge and has about 4 dips in a row. They usually cause my tires to buzz on some bolt heads inside my fenders. Today, I got the usual buzz buzz buzz buzz then BUZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!

Driver side coil snapped. Managed to get to the shoulder and limp it to a reasonably safe spot and called for a tow. That was tricky but we managed to do it without damaging anything (unlike last time the flatbed scrunched my valance, speedgrille and light mounts)...

I have a nice groove in the tread where that bolthead ate it up but it doesn't look deep enough to worry about replacing the tire. Good thing--these tires are only a few months old and I don't think they'd believe that this was warrantable as a "road hazard" :shhh:

Luckily we had a spare coil...long story...but if I break another, I'm gonna be left with trying to figure out how to cut down my old 3" drop coils to get it to the same/similar height it's at now, or bag it, which I just don't have the energy or time to do now.

_dennis
 

summer09

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tough luck on your experience with the broken coils, good thing you didnt had any broken tires or else it will be making the situation worse...
 

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yeah coulda been much worse. good thing you got off the road safely. I think that your truck looks cool in that photo. If you do end up finding an answer to the coil question, let us know what it is.
 

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I did discover some damage from the tow, after all. He put those magnetic-base lights on the roof of my hoe, at the very back. The magnetic base of each light left marks in the paint, as well as 3 or 4 semi-circular scuff marks in the paint on the hood from the cable that was draped across it (he stuck it under a wiper blade to hold it down, then it ran up the windshield and down the roof to the two lights).

I tried using a light cleaner/wax compound on the scratches but they didn't come out. If the paint on my hood weren't already full of a thousand little cracks, I would have complained to the tow company, but I'm not going to sweat it.

_dennis
 
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