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My cars are all gently aged, ok, OLD, AS DIRT!! But I still love them, literally.
Being from the mid 2000s, both of our non SUVs have trunks that use gas struts.
I think this is an advantage in eliminating arms, therefore increasing space.
The 4 door has a 20 cu ft trunk--I don't think many, if any, sedans have a trunk this large today.
I recently (last week) replaced the gas struts which cost < $9 each on rockauto (lifetime warranty, not of any use?)--not bad if they will last 7 years (the last time I replaced them). Of course, Toyota has them for $75.82 each, list price, hardly worth it for OE.
My hunch is it's cheaper to have spring arms, and, with such, it's possible to have a power pull down (still is with struts, but the motion is funny when the trunk has struts imho). I would like to keep this design in a modern car that has a trunk.
What features do you wish were still offered in 2023?
(the yellow electrical tape is my replacement of the XM antenna--the port did a super neat job in fall 2005, where there is a rubber piece that the antenna wire passes through, so as not to get pinched. I had to notch it for mine. imho BMW does a neater job of wiring to the trunk lid--no more splitters available, so I don't have any metadata and "antenna" still flashes, but XM works--have lifetime it seems)
Being from the mid 2000s, both of our non SUVs have trunks that use gas struts.
I think this is an advantage in eliminating arms, therefore increasing space.
The 4 door has a 20 cu ft trunk--I don't think many, if any, sedans have a trunk this large today.
I recently (last week) replaced the gas struts which cost < $9 each on rockauto (lifetime warranty, not of any use?)--not bad if they will last 7 years (the last time I replaced them). Of course, Toyota has them for $75.82 each, list price, hardly worth it for OE.
My hunch is it's cheaper to have spring arms, and, with such, it's possible to have a power pull down (still is with struts, but the motion is funny when the trunk has struts imho). I would like to keep this design in a modern car that has a trunk.
What features do you wish were still offered in 2023?
(the yellow electrical tape is my replacement of the XM antenna--the port did a super neat job in fall 2005, where there is a rubber piece that the antenna wire passes through, so as not to get pinched. I had to notch it for mine. imho BMW does a neater job of wiring to the trunk lid--no more splitters available, so I don't have any metadata and "antenna" still flashes, but XM works--have lifetime it seems)