[Shotimes] OEM Springs and yards

[Tom Teixeira]

At 12:40 AM -0500 3/13/04, Noah South III wrote:
>Now Herman, many?  Maybe some, but not many.  Many sounds a lot like most,
>and I highly doubt most people have had their springs break.  So I'll ask.
>How many people on here HAVE had their springs break?
>
>I've never had any of my springs break, and I've owned 3 SHOs.  The only
>spring I DID see break was on a '92 SLO and it happened to be a spring that
>came on the car brand new.   Anyway, the Tauri specifically had a problem
>with the OEM springs breaking, which is why they had that recall that
>installed shields on the spring mounts or wherever they went.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Herman Anker" <heranker@rogers.com>
>Cc: "SHOTimes-Mailing List" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OEM Springs and yards
>
>
>  > Many of us have experienced springs that break for no appearnt reason
>other than bad quality. So laborwise, I'd stay way from yards to get
>springs.

I had an OEM front spring break on my 94. Many people (if not most 
people) would conclude that Ford instituted the recall because many 
people were having springs break for no apparent reason.

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