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Bargain gas struts?

Hairyarse

Hairyarse

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My boot gas struts need replacing, I was about to order online with Design 911 as seemed the cheapest at about £20 each, but then googled and found these - http://www.sgs-engineering.com/gas-struts/car-boot-tailgate/porsche/944

Bargain price, now ordered, hopefully they fit and do the job

Has anyone else used these before?

Cheers
Andy
 
I looked at those guys mate but have you done all your homework? Do they come with all the electrical connectors? I settled for promax in the end for my boot struts because I could guarantee they would be correct. A lot of firms will do them of the correct size but not with the electrical connectors for your demister and boot light.
 
Further to what Rob said - theyre handed and anything other than right on right and left on left will cause all manner of electrical problems, some serious enough to cause a fire.


Simon
 
Simon, you may have just solved the lack of power to my boot light. Anybody got a pic to show which way round they go?
 
You also need to be carefull the struts are not over powered (hydraulically) as I understand this can put too much pressure on the hatch when closed and can push the hatch support away from the glass.

I think from memory you can rmove the strut ends and re-use the electrical connectors for the rear screen and boot light or I did when I replaced the ones in my old car.
 
I bought cheap struts off ebay - caused all sorts of issues - alarm going off, rear screen didn't work etc. Still got them sonewhere.

Promax copies are now on and it all works fine and the hatch springs open on its own (well from the boot release) which I though was an urban myth!

They are about 20 each I think from promax - maybe less.
 
Berts on the ball. James - the most frequent problem seems to be the HRW and the indicators. The HRW keeps blowing fuses and the indicators stop working, but I have seen smoke from one and heard lots of other horror stories.
 
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Berts on the ball. James - the most frequent problem seems to be the HRW and the indicators. The HRW keeps blowing fuses and the indicators stop working, but I have seen smoke from one and heard lots of other horror stories.
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How does it affect the indicators? I thought one side grounded the rear heater and the other supplied it with switched 12v?
 
Thanks for the advice guys. Having seen Robs post this am and panicing, having forgotten completely about the electrical connections ([:mad:]) I rang them. The woman I spoke to checked and said they didn't have them so cancelled the order and got a refund - they ewere very helpful.

However, got a call back this pm from them, the chap said she'd been mistaken and they do in fact have the connections. Nice one! (Hopefully) anyway, two got posted to me today so fingers crossed they're ok.

Should they be marked up left and right?
 

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Berts on the ball. James - the most frequent problem seems to be the HRW and the indicators. The HRW keeps blowing fuses and the indicators stop working, but I have seen smoke from one and heard lots of other horror stories.
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How does it affect the indicators? I thought one side grounded the rear heater and the other supplied it with switched 12v?
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I cant answer that Nick, I dont know exactly what happens (but Id guess that current is back-fed into other ciruits that share the same fuse). I can say though, that Ive seen this happen on two or three cars of my one and many, many other cars.


Simon
 

ORIGINAL: Hairyarse

My boot gas struts need replacing, I was about to order online with Design 911 as seemed the cheapest at about £20 each, but then googled and found these - http://www.sgs-engineering.com/gas-struts/car-boot-tailgate/porsche/944

Bargain price, now ordered, hopefully they fit and do the job

Has anyone else used these before?

Cheers
Andy
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A client of mine has used these and they work fine though i think he had to trim the connectors to fit correctly.

cheers
 
Well they arrived yesterday and they have spade connectors, one each end. However, both struts are identical. Should this be the case given the comments above of not getting them mixed up?

Cheers
Andy
 
If you dont wire up the HRW theyll be alright. If you try then youll be in a whole world of sh*t (or at least, youve have electrical gremlins and possibly worse).
 
Well I spoke to them yesterday and they assure me that they'll work. They said the HRW one is no problem, it's the boot light one where I must take the connector shroud off the original strut and fit to the new one, so that the boot light goes off when you close the lid. They said they'd fitted the struts to a customers car before and this was the only issue.

Anyway, no work tomorrow so will take a look in daylight and see how they compare to the original ones

One separate thought, my boot light only ever comes on when I open the tailgate AND the drivers door is open, if I open only the boot, the boot light wont come on, is this normal?


 
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One separate thought, my boot light only ever comes on when I open the tailgate AND the drivers door is open, if I open only the boot, the boot light wont come on, is this normal?
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Not 100% sure about the squares mate but on an oval dash the cabin and boot light should come on together when either the boot or door is opened. It meant I didn't have to run another circuit to the boot release when I installed the cat 1 Thatcham alarm.
 
Both our 924S's ie.square dash equivalent-boot light illuminates when hatch only opened together with cabin light-boot & cabin illuminate when only cabin doors are opened.Either /or dependant on position of individual lamp switches.
 
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