Eibachs fail on altima coupe. Any help Stillen?

[dldjros69]

For the past month (maybe less) i have been hearing a ding every time i hit a bump in my coupe. The ding was coming from the front left wheel. I took my coupe to my parents house the other day to take a look at it. We attempted to tighten the 2 master strut bolts. They were solid. My dad told me i was crazy and i went home.

This week i was in a bumpy part of town and heard the dinging really bad. I took my coupe back over to my parents house and we took the tire off. We did not do that before as it was dark out last time. We found this







Well thats the bottom of the spring. the spring is broken. I will be emailing stillen in hopes of getting a new spring. If its not free - BC coil overs here i come!!!!

[dflane39]

YEESH! That doesn't look good! How long have the springs been on?

[dangeris]

Wow Danny..that sucks. Judging from the rust, it looks like its been like that for at least month or two. Hope you get that worked our bro! I'm sure Stillen will at least help you on this

[dldjros69]

How long have the springs been on?

im wondering that same question myself? I got the springs on the first eibach group buy. When the heck was that guys?

My coupe has 20,000 miles on it and id say the springs have about 15,000 miles.

Good point with the rust! I think all the salt, snow, water, and weather had an aid in the rusting.

[chrispizzitola]

This makes Me skeptical about my Springs. The only thing that i can think of that might of caused this is a defect in the manufacturing. Get ahold of stillen tell them what happened and im sure theyll be able to get you a new spring for free.The Spring breaking off like that put you and your car in danger.

[blackteam02]

WHOA-WTH!! i hope stillen does give you a free replacement.

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

This makes Me skeptical about my Springs. The only thing that i can think of that might of caused this is a defect in the manufacturing. Get ahold of stillen tell them what happened and im sure theyll be able to get you a new spring for free.The Spring breaking off like that put you and your car in danger.

werd mine bang wen I hit speedbumps or big bumps goin into driveways

[dldjros69]

Id say dont worry about your springs. I was doing 90 mph yesterday and everything was fine. I even drove it today. The ride is a little bumpier - no shock absorption.

I emailed stillen today, if i dont get a response back by monday ill call them on tuesday. Hopefully i get a free spring!

Funny thing is how we found out that the spring was broken. We had the wheel off and couldnt find out what was making the noise. so i start feeling around the spring and i see it chilling there sitting on the strut. i was like wtf.

Hopefully this gets fixed soon!

[xfactor0707]

Wowww thats crazy, Just be thankful also that nothing bad came out of the spring being broken like that

[QR25DE]

werd mine bang wen I hit speedbumps or big bumps goin into driveways

They shouldn't... mine don't lol.

[ESP]

werd mine bang wen I hit speedbumps or big bumps goin into driveways

Well damn...mine have started doing that in the last few months. I'll have to check mine out.Ugh. Guess what I'm doing next weekend........

[QR25DE]

Well damn...mine have started doing that in the last few months. I'll have to check mine out.Ugh. Guess what I'm doing next weekend........

I'm thinking about just putting my OEM springs back on. Nothing bad about the Eibachs here, just the crappy Nova Scotian roads . No one suspects the non-lowered OEM wheels turbo altima, lol... ugh *face palm*.

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

Well damn...mine have started doing that in the last few months. I'll have to check mine out.Ugh. Guess what I'm doing next weekend........

same lmk wat happens so i could fix it however u do

[dldjros69]

I will never go back to the 4x4 look. yuck!

i doubt u guys have anything broken on yours! If so this could be bad

[Jose3.5]

One of mine is starting to make a squeak...But I don't think Stillen would have anything to do with it, they just sell the parts. Eibach is who you should probably be contacting.

[Northernstar]

this sucks, hope you get everything sort out~

[07wHiTE 3.5SE 6sPD]

Jose 3.5 is it the rear that's squeaking? because it could be your rear shocks... because mine are starting to squeak which can give the illusion of the spring squeaking.

[dangeris]

Jose 3.5 is it the rear that's squeaking? because it could be your rear shocks... because mine are starting to squeak which can give the illusion of the spring squeaking.

My shocks are starting to squeak as well. We all knew that installing the Eibach springs and mounting them on the OEM strut/shock might or might not have any some sort of problems in the future. The spring totally breaking is a different issue. My guess is Danny got really drunk again and picked up some really fat girl (who he thought was a supermodel) and gave her a "ride" in his coupe, hence why his spring broke.

[kyle@stillen]

I can honestly say that I have never seen this before! I have used Eibach's on my daily driver's, and my desert beater's and we've been selling these for YEARS and I have never seen a coil just break off like this...We will get in touch with Eibach immediately and see what's going on.

[yoonzilla]

Now thats customer service! You can always count on stillen

[Jose3.5]

The squeaking is coming from the front on my car.

[mmkeller]

I'm not an expert but when you change to Eibach or even coil overs did you change the OEM bushings. I heard you can wear those out sooner and you need to change the bushings to polyurethane bushings, just throwing it out there bc I want to lower my AC and don't want these issues to show up.

[dldjros69]

We will get in touch with Eibach immediately and see what's going on.

Thank you kyle - keep me posted!!!

I'm not an expert but when you change to Eibach or even coil overs did you change the OEM bushings. I heard you can wear those out sooner and you need to change the bushings to polyurethane bushings, just throwing it out there bc I want to lower my AC and don't want these issues to show up.

i was just down there - i think my bushings are fine! they look brand new.

[terrycs]

This is a first. I'd like to know what caused it.

[dldjros69]

Hello Daniel,

I have confirmed with my Customer Service department and Eibach that theywill be shipping you two new front springs today.  I should have trackinginformation soon.

Thanks,

Kyle

[super_dn]

Stillen is the best, hands down

[Jose3.5]

How cool, they did everything for you.

Can you guys call Nissan and tell them that my car broke and that they need to send me a 370Z lol

[sentrastace]

Hello Daniel,

I have confirmed with my Customer Service department and Eibach that theywill be shipping you two new front springs today.  I should have trackinginformation soon.

Thanks,

Kyle

friggin awesome! i bought the eibachs from stillen too for my sentra and im constantly scared something will happen to them or they'll mess up something on my car

[dangeris]

Stillen is the Shizt-nits yo!

[dldjros69]

Well i finally got around to changing my broken spring. Not sure why i waited 2.5 months to change it. Maybe because i didnt have my car for 60 days but what ever.

We started today at 1:30 and finished at 4pm. Id say thats not 2 bad for the 2nd time around. We also rotated my tires.





i just realized these pictures stink!

Thank you to stillen and eibach for making things right.