Conventional Heavy Duty Suspension Leaf Springs for Semi Trailers

Leaf springs are typically the most important part of a truck or SUV suspension. They are the backbone of your vehicles support, providing load capacity and impacting your ride quality. A broken leaf spring can cause your vehicle to lean or sag, and is strongly recommended to purchase replacement leaf springs. You can also add a leaf to existing springs to increase load capacity. Also available are heavy duty or hd leaf springs for heavy use or commercial applications to increase towing or hauling capacity. When the original leaf springs on your truck, van or SUV begin to fail you will see a visual difference which we call squatting (when your vehicle sits lower in the rear than the front of the vehicle). This condition will affect the control of your vehicle which will cause over steering. CARHOME Springs offers original replacement leaf springs to bring your truck, van or SUV back to stock height. We also offer a heavy duty leaf spring version for your vehicle to give it extra weight capacity and height. Whether you choose an CARHOME Springs' original replacement leaf spring or heavy duty leaf spring you will see and feel an improvement in your vehicle. When refreshing or adding extra capacity leaf springs to your vehicle; remember to also check the condition of all the components and bolts on your suspension. Leaf springs are the most cost efficient suspension solutions for commercial vehicles. Despite of the fact that the history of leaf springs started more than 100 years ago, we can find leaf springs in the latest modern commercial vehicles. Leaf springs on commercial vehicles are not standardised parts therefore each vehicle manufacturer develops own solutions and on one vehicle platform several different variants are used. The results of this is a huge number of article numbers on the market. From technical point of view, leaf springs have three main types.

​Multi leaf springs (often said: conventional leaf springs) are the oldest type of leaf spring. They are made from spring leaves with constant cross sections. They are used mainly in construction vehicles, agricultural vehicles and even on rear axles of modern pick ups. Advantages of multi leaf spring are the robustness and cheap repair possibility. In most of the cases no additional stabiliser is needed.