Help with broken Spring/coil

[Cruiser133]

I just found two pieces of my drivers side susp. spring/coil on the driveway. I have never in almost 17 years of wrenching on mustangs have EVER had this happen or even seen it happen. Is this common? What could be the cause? I ordered new Vought springs to replace them, but is this a sign of bigger problems? Thanks guys!!!

[JOESID]

I have a '99 Kompressor as well and it had a broken spring when I bought it with 76k. When I told people they were like, "you have a broken what!?!?".

I actually posted a pic of mine a while back,
http://www.club202.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8252&highlight=spring

[rollinrealbig]

god I love Cali!

no snow, no salt on the roads, no rusty cars - just cracked interior trim and faded paint jobs! :D

[SLAMMED_C]

lol.. oh thats normal!!.. dont worry about it.
the different climates.. the sumemr and winter.. the spring starts to rust and eventually breaks a piece off. see it all the time.
W202, W203...

[Cruiser133]

The car is really clean, no rust on the floor boards or wheel wells. Ive had rat trap Mustangs with holes in the floors and the springs were fine.....:( BTW, are any special tools needed to swap them out, ive got standard spring compressors....

[c280nz]

you will struggle with normal spring compressors, but it can be done, i have done myne without spring compressors(you just need to unbolt a bit more stuff), theres a post on it somewhere on this site, search for it and you should find