Gas Bonnet Struts for the E52
It seems that every Elgrand owner gets the urge to tinker with their cars, improving, fixing and sometimes just fitting reasonably pointless 'upgrades'. This leads me nicely onto my recent fitting of my absolutely necessary gas struts to the bonnet to hold it open. There are a number of places to purchase the struts, and its a simple matter of bolting them to the right places. There are rubber covers to remove for the lower brackets to be fitted, but apart from that its quite straight forward. The pics below should help if you need to check as you go. The fitting is the same both sides. One tip is that the strut is about an inch too long so you have to fit it to the lower bracket and then compress it slightly to then fit to the upper one.