can't get engine lid to open - '88 80Q

[SJ]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Max Hoepli" <mhoepli at vif.com>
To: "SJ" <syljay at optonline.net>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Cc: <tessmc at drizzle.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: can't get engine lid to open - '88 80Q


> by hood struts-------you mean those devices about 30 cm away from the
hinges
> that help keep the hood up?
**** Yup, thats the hood struts. Gas operated struts act like springs.

> If so, my hood struts seem to be weak, I have to use a broom stick to keep
> hood open, (so my car is like most cars with those long bars folded down
> over radiator used to keep hood opened), maybe because of the cold weather
> in January hood is not staying opened, in November 2005 the hood stayed
> open.
**** Struts act up when its cold. Cold air, less gas expansion > kaput
struts.
I also was using the "broom" technique during the summer. Winter came and
the lone working strut was not enough to keep hood up. Plus you needed two
ppl to pop the hood.
Two new struts later . .and all is well..

SJ



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