Ianwallace

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Hi guys just to let you all know what I've been up to.

today I have replaced all the gas struts on my car and thought I would give you all some feed back to is it worth doing

in a word (NO) apart from the boot.

glove box
stops the glove box from hitting your passengers knees, but for with its worth and the hassle, tell your passenger to bloody move.:lol:

cubby box lid
also not worth doing, it does stop the lid from closing down on your fingers its easy to install.
the top part of the strut pops off with a flat blade to remove the captive washer, the bottom pivot needs a dremmel to remove the shoulders from the rivet, you can re use the rivet.

I might if I can be bothered try and make the lid run a little smother to see if I can get the lid to pop up when you press the button

boot gas strut
this is well worth doing, now I can use the bit of wood I used to prop the blood thing up :hysterically_laughi

bonnet struts
bugger it I have replaced all the other ones so what the hell

and on that note as I have not ballsed up anything or flattened my battery or buggered up the car with my nanocom unit, I think I have done well.

:rolly:

that said my bloody (alarm fault) message came back today to I have now disabled the alarm :5bseeya:
 
Result!

I've got no strut on my cubby lid that I'm aware of. Another thing left off the budget model, perhaps.
 
Pretty sure it just has a sort of arc with a nut through it that slow it down by friction. Will have a look a later and see if there are signs of tampering.
 
Pretty sure it just has a sort of arc with a nut through it that slow it down by friction. Will have a look a later and see if there are signs of tampering.
The strut is very small, it pops the lid up when you press the button.
 
Cannot see any sign of it on mine. Mine doesn't pop up and drops like a brick!

Got a picture, Ian? Actually, now I think about it, I think NickTheGeek might have put some photos up a few years ago ...
 
Cannot see any sign of it on mine. Mine doesn't pop up and drops like a brick!

Got a picture, Ian? Actually, now I think about it, I think NickTheGeek might have put some photos up a few years ago ...


I will take a photo tomorrow morning for you
I see you might have found it. ?
The video shows it working fine
I have replaced my gas strut but it still does not work as good as that
 
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I think I have a budget cubby hole with no strut. There's nowhere to put it on mine.
 
Really? Oh well, that makes me feel a bit better. £50 for a second-hand replacement seems a bit steep for something that is a PITA and likely to break.

I might see about stopping it banging down quite so hard though. Pretty sure it had a nut on the inside of the curved metal runner part when I had the centre cubby out last.
 
Having only had my P38 for about 2 months I've been thinking that the cubby lid thing was an oddly ****e design - have just seen the video of one working properly and feel the need to buy me a gas strut.
 
I too think the cup holder in the lid is crap. So I made this instead -"a handy wee picnic table" :eek: and there is more room in the cubby box :)

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