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Subject:Re: rear hatch struts, color + friday
From:Mark Dorm
Date:Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:31:28 PDT

So has anyone tried to use one of the extra heavy Bus Depot has with one of
his regular hatch struts (in combinatioin)...????

> >In some year I don't
> >remember,
> > VW changed the struts so one side is stronger than the other so the
>hatch
> > will stay in different positions or not go all the way up so shorter
>people
> > can reach it.

>...when i bought a pair of struts from
>canadian  tire last month, they had to order them from two different
>stores,
>that had them in stock. When I decided to put them  on,  I noticed that one
>was much smaller than the other...brought it back to exchange, so I could
>have two hard ones... now someone is telling me that they should be
>different ???
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