Freelander 2 (LR2) Front Springs.

The near side front spring cracked today just as i was pulling onto my drive, same old story most springs seem to break/snap this time of year at least up to early March anyways, most likely already air line crack and the cold weather as helped it along, photo below of the pigtail bit i found on the under tray.
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This as happened on My07 what springs are we using for the FL2 manual any preferences and where to obtain before i go looking, any and all links ideas would be appreciated.

The rest of the spring is seated nicely in the cup, you can not really tell by looking at the FL that the spring has lost it's tail end a still drives ok, but would not want to go off road with it, i will be replacing both sides at the same time.

I think i have managed to find a good strut and spring for the TD4

Is this a common thing on F2?

GrumpyGel said:

Is this a common thing on F2?

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happens to all cars here in the UK around this time of year, so not solely common to FL2

Well today i decided to try the old method as above and got the bolt moving nicely, little at a time using heat, plus gas, long bar and a long ratchet.

You can what i was dealing with below.
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After a while slowly got it started and the bolts was moving, so tightening and undoing bit by bit.
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The disaster stuck and the bolts snapped.
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Now i have the task of trying to remove the thread out of the hub :blub: