The front offside spring on my 2005, 23,000 mile Fiesta Ghia 1.6 snapped causing the spring to travel down the strut and jam into the wheel. Fortunately, the car was at rest when this happened and so no other damage was sustained. But it could have been a very different matter had this gone off at 60mph. My local garage from which I bought the car and which has serviced it has replaced both the front springs and, having kept the bits, looking at the spring it seems that there may have been a fault in the manufacture that caused an initial crack in which corrosion took place causing the bottom coil of the spring to eventually fail. At 23,000 miles, properly serviced and driven under normal driving conditions, this failure should not have occurred and the evidence of the break seems to suggest a manufacturing fault.