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Originally Posted by look 171
Been buying Porsche hood strut and they eventually go bad even with little use. I go to disconnect my trickle charger on the 930 and get conked on my head again, it time. Any of you buy aftermarket off amazon, ebay or Rock Auto? Do those last longer? They are less then half the price
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Hood shocks were shot when I bought my car nearly 15 years ago. They'd hold on a really, really hot day - but no other time.
Pretty much the first job I did on the car after acquiring it - I did the screen wash next, but the hood needed to stay open to work on them... I fitted Stabilus HDs from our host -still on the car and still working perfectly; about 50,000 miles on them now, and the hood has been up and down countless times...
After I fitted them, I read a neat idea in tech; just drill through the dead shock and use a hairpin cotter pin to keep the hood up. Which is how I'd do it now - except they're still working perfectly...
For example
https://www.mcmaster.com/hairpin-clips - about $3 in stainless...