One or both of my rear hatch struts have failed at 63000Km, has anyone one else had this problem?. My dealer did a search and found that there are only 25 pairs in Canada. His memory can only remember only one other set of struts having failed since the Mo was introduced in 03.
The rear hatch struts only support 50% of the weight of the rear hatch so that if one or both fail, you are back to manual lifting of the rear hatch. The benefit of this happening is that it saved me a trip to the YMCA to do some weight lifting. The price of the struts are $120.00 a pair and should be here by tomorrow. I used to change out my rear hatch struts on my Caravan about every three years and it looks like that habit will not go away. It appears to change them out is quite easy so I am not anticpating any trouble.
The rear hatch struts only support 50% of the weight of the rear hatch so that if one or both fail, you are back to manual lifting of the rear hatch. The benefit of this happening is that it saved me a trip to the YMCA to do some weight lifting. The price of the struts are $120.00 a pair and should be here by tomorrow. I used to change out my rear hatch struts on my Caravan about every three years and it looks like that habit will not go away. It appears to change them out is quite easy so I am not anticpating any trouble.