Replacing your car’s coil springs is essential for maintaining handling, comfort, and safety.
Coil springs are essential components of your car’s suspension system. They connect each wheel to the vehicle body, maintain ride height, absorb road surface imperfections, and help stabilise handling while ensuring continuous contact with the road. Over time, they can deteriorate due to corrosion and metal fatigue, especially when subjected to excessive loads and repeated impacts from potholes.
Damian Carthy, who owns a garage in County Fermanagh, said he’s dealing with up to 10 people a day who have damaged their vehicles on potholes. He said many of the vehicles brought to him were not just in need of new tyres: “I’m talking about bent wheels, broke wheels, broke suspension, broke springs. People have to be towed off the road.”
When replacing coil springs, it is advisable, for safety and comfort, to always replace them in axle pairs. Failure to do so can result in uneven ride height, increased tyre wear, less responsive steering, reduced road holding, longer braking distances, and increased fuel consumption. Replacing only one spring on an axle can also reduce the life expectancy of the remaining spring.
Lesjöfors springs are produced using premium-grade spring steel and are protected by an advanced dual-layer coating system, consisting of a zinc phosphate underlayer and epoxy resin powder coating. This superior protection minimises the risk of premature failure, even in the most demanding winter conditions. Lesjöfors products meet the same quality standards as those of vehicle manufacturers and can therefore be used by authorised repair workshops without affecting vehicle warranties.
To support the confidence Lesjöfors has in its product quality, all parallel wire coil springs are supplied with a three-year warranty, while tapered wire coil springs are supplied with a two-year warranty.
To learn more about the Lesjöfors range, speak to your local GSF branch.
