How to Remove a Spring from a Loaded Strut Assembly

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Thank you for the great film. Is it hard to despring that spring completely? For some reason there are no films, showing this procedure, though it is important, bcs before you give the old assembly for recycling or just put it into the trash container, you need to release that spring, so no one is hurt accidentally. That procedure will be also necessary, if you want to replace the spring for another one. I bought a new assembly to install, but researching what to do w/the old one, how to dispose it properly. From this film it looks like that the strut is the part which can be worn in the assembly. I thought they are springs, they become softer, so the car is sitting lower as a result. But after this film I start to think that the springs are never worn, they just can be broken (in accidents e.g.). Probably that is why all the films are about how to remove the old spring and install it on the new strut, so no one bothers to decompress that spring. Thank you again.