What cheap ass metal are they making coil springs with nowadays or is it because the roads are bad? You see loads of broken pieces of spring in the gutter.
A family member had a spring go once on a Ford Fiesta that was only a few years old. Maybe it's a mass production thing like everything nowadays - make them thinner, less metal, save a few pence on each spring.
Most things are shit nowadays like internal door handles and taps that used to be made out of thick brass.


A square peg in a round hole? Well yes actually! The bottom hinge was square drive to hinge pin knocked in a round hole with a big hammer.
*picture of the gate I fitted for my sister last year, 5 bags of postcrete in each hole because there was about 3ft of post in the ground, fitted those heat shrink post protector sleeves with a heat gun.
