2009 t5 sportline rear springs

[ben1977]

Hi
Can anyone help please?
I bought a brand new t5 sportline in 2009. Its done 41000 miles.
It failed mot due to a broken rear spring and the garage replaced the pair with what looks to me like standard springs picture attached.
I've brought this up with the mechanic who claims that my van never came with modified suspension and that he's fitted the correct ones.. everything I've read says that it would have come with eibach -30mm springs . Am i wrong? Picture also attached of removed unbroken original spring which he says is standard. Thanks in advance

 

[JumpShip]

Looks massively high even for stock suspension.
My understanding is that sportlines all came with eibach -30mm springs .

 

[JumpShip]

Do your new springs look anything like your old ( very rusty) spring ?

 

[Ruby16]

That's never right, far too high.

 

[ben1977]

My understanding was eibach -30mm too from standard. Its got no weight in the back, looks awful though doesnt it ?I ll get under it and have a look when its not hammering it down. They definitely didnt come standard

 

[Martin T5.1]

Hi, with my T5.1, everybody said it was on Sportline springs not fitted by myself and I couldn’t find a bill receipt to say they had been fitted but crawling underneath I do remember seeing the grey paint marks for a T32 , it sat really nice not too low but never found out if the springs had been retro fitted or was standard and it wasn’t a sportline.

 

[ben1977]

Do your new springs look anything like your old ( very rusty) spring ?

 

[ben1977]

I've been under the van and its similar in appearance to the rusty old original one. Can't tell on the length though, just general appearance.
What he's fitted is a lesjofors 4295050.
He's been told by his suppliers that the van just comes up as a 2.5 l t5 so these are just standard it seems
The van was supplied brand new as a sportline though with all the associated extras.

 

[JumpShip]

I thought that was the case with sportlines ...I.e. spec'd up after the factory.

 

[Sasquatch]

Forgive me as Sportlines aren't my thing so might be off beam here...

...but aren't Sportlines built at the factory as normal Transporters and then modified on VW's behalf by an outside company in the UK?

That being the case it probably did leave the factory with tall springs and thats possibly why it comes up on parts databases as a regular spring.

However, the Sportline suspension was fitted after that once the van arrived in the UK, so wouldn't show on the parts list as a shorter spring. Its should indeed be a shorter spring, and not the standard tall one it left the factory in Germany with. So your mechanic is wrong, albeit for legitimate reasons - unless hes a Trainspotter specialist he would simply have no means of knowing. Thats another good reason only to take these vans to people that really know them.

Because of the nature of the Sportlines birth the unique Sportline items can be difficult to acquire over the counter.

 

[ben1977]

That would make sense if that's the case. I thought vw carried out the work so it would be registered as such.
It was an mot failure due to the broken spring and was fixed that day although I did mention that it was a sportline and the suspension is lowered from new
This explains him saying its a standard van when he's trying to source parts.
Thanks for the info