<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 24px"><DIV><FONT size=2>Careful with weird struts.&nbsp; They usually do not work as&nbsp;VW intended.&nbsp; Westys, in particular, have struts that allow for closing the hatch part way and staying there.&nbsp; My experience with the cheap ones is that they&nbsp;don't work like that and go flat real quick.&nbsp; That hatch is&nbsp;HEAVY.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=2 face=""></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><FONT size=2 face="">Dave B.</FONT></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">On 04/13/12, <SPAN>Loren Busch&lt;starwagen@GMAIL.COM&gt;</SPAN> wrote:</SPAN></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</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>