Are the front stock springs in our cars know to go. When I bought my car the front 2 were broke (idiot I bought it from drove around on the one broken spring too long til the other side broke) and while stripping my scrap car I took off a front tire and there it was... a broken front spring.
Is this a common thing.
Stock Springs Broke
- cb mx3
- Regular Member
- Posts: 84
- Joined: August 30th, 2005, 5:14 pm
- Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Contact:
They were recalled.....I didn't really look into it as a recall b/c I got mine for free b/c I knew the manager at the local mazda parts department so just had to pay for shipping but the recall would explain why there broke. Oh yeah
"I think there is a recall on it in the northern areas"
Is that b/c of the salt they use on the roads up here
"I think there is a recall on it in the northern areas"
Is that b/c of the salt they use on the roads up here
-
- Senior Member
- Posts: 3391
- Joined: November 30th, 2001, 2:01 am
- Location: Stuttgart, Deutschland
- Contact:
i've seen a couple MX-3's at the junkyard with those "guards" installed......basically a crappy looking bracket that somehow bolts to the spring perch. Dunno if they had to drill or what but it looks effective i geuss.
Noble Green Metallic 93' GS Hybrid, 91' 1.8 323
DONATE TO MX-3.COM
DONATE TO MX-3.COM
-
- Senior Member
- Posts: 3825
- Joined: June 26th, 2003, 2:01 am
- Location: Puyallup, WA
when i got my car the rear spring was in 4 pieces and i was driving one day and hit a bump and the passenger front spring snapped my bumper hit the ground cracked my strut snapped in half gouged the shat outta the tire. it wasnt pretty more freaky when u hear a bang then like grinding from the spring hitting the strut and eating the tire... and well id say lower the car cuz ur cheaper off that way....
95 rs with custom short ram air, b&m short throw shifter, probe 2.0L header with 2 1/4" exhaust all the way back, catco high flow cat, apc high flow muffler with 4.5" tip, accel 8 mm wires, blaze red, cf altezzas, gun metal 17" mr7s, slotted cross drilled rotors on the way with hawk hps pads, red and white interior, other then that its stock.
- ovendenk
- Supporting Member
- Posts: 911
- Joined: January 12th, 2004, 2:01 am
- Location: Kamloops, BC
- Contact:
why would you need it in BC? you guys use dirt on the roads, not salt like us idiots out east.
kevin (aka The Oven)
93 mx-3 GS KL-ZE with KL31 cams and properly chipped ecu
All mods are on my website: http://ca.geocities.com/ovendenk
MX-3.com Worklog: http://www.mx-3.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=48462
93 mx-3 GS KL-ZE with KL31 cams and properly chipped ecu
All mods are on my website: http://ca.geocities.com/ovendenk
MX-3.com Worklog: http://www.mx-3.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=48462