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In the present scenario Automobile and Aerospace manufacturing sector is concentrating much on reducing the total weight of the vehicles & airplanes thereby increasing fuel Efficiency and overall performance. In this direction fiber reinforced composite materials are effectively utilized. As these materials comparatively have better strain energy storage ability, high strength and less weight than conventional alloy material which have comparatively higher weight ratio. This research impart the focus on the possibility of replacing conventionally used Steel helical coil springs by fiber reinforced plastic helical coil springs. In this research work we manufactured two helical springs of rectangular crossection with different materials known as GLARE and CLARE to get which composite spring is better to replace with steel spring. Here we are going to manufacture glass fiber epoxy and carbon epoxy spring with the reinforcement of Aluminium wire mesh. We take 50% epoxy and 50% glass fibers for glass spring and 20% carbon, 30%glass, 50%epoxy for carbon spring .we concluded that cost of CLARE spring is 57% more than glass spring but the weight 13% less than GLARE spring and other factors of clare spring are better than glass epoxy spring i.e. Shear stress, failure load. The specimen preparation and experiments were carried out according to ASTM standards.