Front suspension

[DazzerLancs]

not having much luck with my ds3, this morning the front end collapsed, I’m think front spring snapped, smoking like mad so the tyre has suffered too, garage coming to it this morning, hopefully that’s all that’s happened, luckily, unusual for me, I wasn’t going too fast(30mph), and pulled in straight away, not Happy, it’s front nearside which after googling seems quite common

[BenS]

Yeah the DS3 has springs made of chocolate

Hope it's not caused too much secondary damage

[DazzerLancs]

It will have, only luck I have is bad haha

[DazzerLancs]

Update, it’s just the spring, because I caught it quick nothing else is damaged, he said it’s a few nights of -8 temperatures will have caused it, he’s got three cars in with broken springs

[Owd git]

Mine was initiated by corrosion where the spring coating had been damaged by the plastic sleeve fitted to the bottom coil. It broke at 50 mph and took out the tyre. Something to do with road salt and hydrogen embrittlement according to my Googling.

It was lucky that I was travelling on a straight road with no other traffic at the time.

My extended warranty paid for that spring, and after a long battle, Citroen Customer Services paid for the other to be replaced as a precaution.

[DazzerLancs]

Fellow Vespa rider too, mine fixed at £194 which included the recovery so not too bad, glad I was only going quite slow when mine went