Broken-ass Goldlines

Post by **jonnymopar** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:24 pm

Last Saturday, I went to change into my summer shoes since the snow is gone, and my right rear lowering spring was broken into 3 pieces! Fun stuff!

Looks like the coils of the spring bouncing against each other wore away all paint and it just corroded from there. These springs have roughly 90,000 miles on them. I've got my stock springs in now. This car drives REALLY nice, but doesn't handle as well. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do next.

SOKADAO954 · Post by **SOKADAO954** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:27 pm

wow sorry to hear that so what u doing now?? new one or stock??

hybrid-Srt2001 · Post by **hybrid-Srt2001** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:45 pm

WTF?!

Mat00ES · Post by **Mat00ES** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:49 pm

Wow and I just put a used set in my car.

Post by **jonnymopar** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:58 pm

Mat00ES wrote:Wow and I just put a used set in my car.

I know, and I thought of you when I was taking them out. I'm guessing that yours were in much better shape than mine are. If it makes you feel any better, I have no idea when this broke, so the ride couldn't have changed much. Same amount of banging and clunking that I've always had in this car.

Stock springs for now. First priority is to get the 2.4L freshened up and into this car. If the 2.4L doesn't work, I've gotta at least do a timing belt and water pump on the 2.0L. After that, I'm not sure I feel like sinking any money into it right now.

Mat00ES · Post by **Mat00ES** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:33 pm

Mine actaully rides decent.
What 2.4L are you putting in?

Passt · Post by **Passt** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:00 pm

Ouch dude lol.

Post by **jonnymopar** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:13 pm

Mat00ES wrote:Mine actaully rides decent.
What 2.4L are you putting in?

My friend gave me a 2.4L out of an 06 Stratus. It has crank walk, but it's not bad. I haven't torn into it yet, but I'm pretty sure all it's going to need is a set of main bearings and a thorough checking of the crank journals to make sure it's ok. If not, I can always use an SRT-4 crank.

Blivitt02 · Post by **Blivitt02** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:01 pm

That's exactly how mine looked when I pulled mine out... I noticed a change in ride quality though, It went from rough to my inner fender resting on my tire and the car coming to a sudden stop

Mat00ES · Post by **Mat00ES** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:40 pm

Thats what I wanted to do for a swap, let me know if you need a hand,

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:42 pm

wow that sucks man. but hey 90,000 thats not bad i suppose.idk what average mileage on springs are. but at least they lasted a good while.

LaidNeon · Post by **LaidNeon** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:33 pm

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:45 am

damn, i've never heard of or seen this before. lol

contagious18 · Post by **contagious18** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:59 pm

damn i never seen anything like that

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:41 pm

Whoa....that's the third set of goldlines I've seen do that. Creepy....

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:08 am

Damn pictures aren't working... I wanna' see!

neon2ner · Post by **neon2ner** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:46 am

exactly the reason i got rid of my goldlines and never bought a set again. i'm with crystalmarie, i had heard of goldlines doing that, so i ditched mine.

Post by **jonnymopar** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:54 am

I mean... if I knew I'd get another 90,000 miles out of a set of Goldlines, I'd buy another set. Then again, I'm amazed at how nice this car rides now.

Kevin_GP · Post by **Kevin_GP** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:11 pm

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:05 pm

Hmmm... Pictures still aren't working for me.

Post by **jonnymopar** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:41 pm

That's pretty crazy considering they're on your server.

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:47 pm

jonnymopar wrote: That's pretty crazy considering they're on your server.

They're working now. Holy broke! You got mad skills - You could fix 'em right up.

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:50 pm

03sxt wrote:
jonnymopar wrote: That's pretty crazy considering they're on your server.

They're working now. Holy broke! You got mad skills - You could fix 'em right up.

yeah just bondo them up. lol.

neonEX · Post by **neonEX** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:50 am

neon2ner wrote:exactly the reason i got rid of my goldlines and never bought a set again. i'm with crystalmarie, i had heard of goldlines doing that, so i ditched mine.

And I bought them... lol

2½ years and 45 000 km later, they are still crapy lowering springs, but always in one piece.