Pothole broke suspension spring

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danrv said:

Thanks for the replies. Correct about damage to the tyre mentioned earlier. All fixed now by a local garage. 
The scraping noise must have been the spring in contact with the tyre. Garage said they were surprised it hadn't punctured it.

A friend asked me for some help in trying to get her late husband's Rover 75 out of their garage a little while ago. Hadn't been moved since before he'd died, maybe 9 months earlier.

Apparently it'd started fine, moved a few metres, then a sudden puncture and it wouldn't move forwards or backwards... The spring had gone ping, and had gone into the tyre and back out again. It took quite a bit of finagling to get the wheel off!

A few of us got in another friend's car in their drive one time - and as we did, there was a ping as a rear spring let go.

Several manufacturers have done recalls to add protection cups to front struts to prevent sudden tyre failure when springs fail on the road.