Grrr, mutter mutter suspension grrrr!

[Feek]

I was sitting in my shack last night and I heard what can only be described as a loud metallic crunch from outside. I looked out the window and saw nothing and grabbed my maglite and checked as well but saw nothing and no one.

I just started the car to go to work and as soon as I started reversing I realised what that noise was.

The front nearside coil spring has broken. It's a common fault on these Focuses and it's happened before. It's the effect of repeated heating and cooling which just makes the metal go brittle and eventually they collapse. The front nearside is sitting a good inch to two inches lower than the offside.

Note - Nearside. NOT my side

So I phoned work and I'm going to log in from home today and try and get the man from the garage to come get it and get it sorted but I really don't need this, neither the hassle nor the added and unexpected expense of the repair.

It's too late to be going back to bed and it's too early to log on to work or phone the garage so I figured that the next best thing was so sit here with a cup of coffee and write about it!