So like 2 weeks ago I hit a wicked pothole and blew out my tire. After about a week or so I finally got a new tire shaved, mounted, and balanced. I drove the car for a few days and noticed it pulling to the right side some and assumed the alignment was out. Today I heard a horrible binding noise from the same corner I blew out and babied the car home. I jacked it up pulled the tired and saw this...



The spring is a Tein S-Tech with unknown amount of miles on them. I was just wondering if I should inform Tein about it as I have never heard of a spring breaking like that.

 

All bets are off when you hit a pothole enough to blow a tire. Sorry man.

 

It wasn't so much a pot hole as it was a channel cut out across the road then filled with stone...only the stone washed out and it was like 4 or 5 inches deep. It also didn't BLOW the tire out just caused it to bubble and develop a slow leak...but I digress. I am not looking for money from them or a replacement or anything as I don't even like the springs and wanted to replace them anyway. Was just hoping to replace when I had money and not let my car sit till I got stock springs or money for coilovers.

Ev0ikon: Have you ever heard of a spring breaking like that?

 

Maybe some of our Gurus have seen this but I say that should not happen even hitting a pot hole / big hit

That spring should be able to take a shock like that & fully compress w/out failing

I would put together a nice, informative email & send it to Tein's customer service dept & inform them. I would remove all 4 springs & replace. I.D the spring as Tein, take pics & send email

I would use only springs made in the USA (Hello Eibach=)

 

I have never seen one broke like that. But then again, a street trim Evo is not light. Something has to break somewhere when it hit hard and in this case I guess you are lucky it's an easily replaceable part. I would spend a bit more on the next of springs and hope it doesn't again if I were you. And I would also go over that corner from tirerod to bushings. Maybe there is a reason they usually are about 1/2 the price of other highly-regarded springs.

 

Hey there,

The spring should NOT break, you clearly have a defective one. Under no circumstances you should have had this happen. Springs are designed to absorb impact, even a big impact like this is nothing. Its simple metal fatigue on a weak spot, most likely a spot on the spot that was not cured properly.

Call Tein, they should send you a replacement ASAP!

Cheers!
Wojtek

 

Had the same exact thing happen on a set of 30k mile tanabe gf210's. I hit a decent pot hole, not big enough to do any damage anything except break the spring. I actually didn't even know it happened until I went to go have my clutch installed and the shop pointed it out. It didn't pull or lean either which was weird.

 

I didn't put the springs on the car. They were on before I bought it. I personally don't like the idea of lowering springs and would rather keep the stock springs rather than lowering springs. Guess I'll be looking for for a set of used stockers.

 

Proper springs are great. Tein anything is junk. I have seen a dozen of those springs with the same failure.

Swift and GTWorx are both excellent springs; designed to work with your struts and suspension geometry.