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Wonder if anyone else has had this problem. I put a set of Apex (yellow) lowering springs in with Monroe Sensatrack struts in about 3years ago, which I put on about 16 000kms on them. I'm driving around on day and started hearing a clunking when making turns left or right, and noticed the car sat a bit lower on the driverside. So had it in for an oil change, and my mechanic took a look and said the coil spring was broken. WTF! How is this possible? The springs look good with only a bit of rust between the coils where they sit on each other, otherwise they look almost new still.

hmmmm should email Apex! did you hit any huge pot holes??

It is totally possible that this can happen, but it is not to common, it would be a good idea as stated above to email the or just get some new springs.

colinsmx3 wrote:hmmmm should email Apex! did you hit any huge pot holes??

Yea I'm in the process of dealing with it, I didn't hit any pot holes. Nothing big enough to break a fairly new spring that is...

solo_ryder wrote:It is totally possible that this can happen, but it is not to common, it would be a good idea as stated above to email the or just get some new springs.

I guess these are not as strong as the OEM springs? Or I just have some mfg defect in mine, anything is possible. The Mechanic orginally thought the strut bearings were bad, but they are good, and spring broke about a coil and half from the top. We'll see if Apex warranty covers it... if not new spring time.

lol, ur kidding me i should have read this post two days back. i just bought apex springs yellow ones as well. not installed yet, im planning on getting tokico struts to go with them. from what i heard monroe struts are no good unless ur planning on keeping the car stock height, if u slam ur ride then there no good. thats wat i heard because i planning on getting monroes my self.