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no-name tailgate struts 900

posted by  someone claiming to be Orian Bliver on  Mon Feb 17 23:59 CST 2003 [RELATED]

The tailgate struts of our 945 failed in the first cold weather this winter, after nine years of Ottawa/Montreal hot summers and cold winters. These were really toast, one lost all its oil.

I ordered and installed no-name replacements (the only label is in Japanese(?)) and they only lasted two weeks. Now to be fair, it hasn't gone above -18C (0F) here in all that time and there is no fluid leaking, so maybe they will recover with warm weather.

Has anybody else had similar experience? Should I be returning these for my money back, or will they be OK when it warms up here? OTOH, -18C is pretty normal here and they really should work at that temperature, but I would like to know if I need to buy brand-name (Suspa or similar) to get anything like the performance or life of the originals. I want to get rid of the hockey stick handle I'm using now.

Really named Brian
'94 945 that does everything except hold its own tailgate up.






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