<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 24px"><DIV><FONT size=2>Careful with weird struts. They usually do not work as VW intended. Westys, in particular, have struts that allow for closing the hatch part way and staying there. My experience with the cheap ones is that they don't work like that and go flat real quick. That hatch is HEAVY.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=2 face=""></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT size=2 face="">Dave B.</FONT></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">On 04/13/12, <SPAN>Loren Busch<starwagen@GMAIL.COM></SPAN> wrote:</SPAN></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">Did I make a mistake? I needed new rear hatch struts and took the cheap<BR>route, got two from the cheapest source (a place north of the Bay area but<BR>south of Portland, you guess) and they have really different attachemtn<BR>points on them. Anyone put on a set of these things recently? How much<BR>Micky Mouse do I have to do?<BR></DIV></div> |
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