Hood Lift Supports, Struts.

I would like to install on my new 2012 Passat TDI SEL the hood Lift Supports, Struts.
Can somebody help me to figure out he best part to use?
Maybe the one from the B6 or other VW model with be a perfect fit.
I think this is a small project mod that won't brake anybody pockets and will be a great addition o our cars..
Please let me know your thoughts..

You want to put in part that will eventually fail, right? The ones for the B5.5 TDI are are around a hundred. I cost me $60 to get my trunk to behave again. Say what you will I like simple, even if it isn't as elegant.

I just can't see it happening. Manual hood support works just fine...although it is quite heavy. Weight/size of the hood seems to require 2 struts, toward the edges of the hood, and would require welding...tough on the surrounding paint, IMO.

I think it's a convenience item that's been "de-contented" that I can live without.

leicaman: my 93 S-4 single hood support was still strong after 17 years...go figure...

Kchorro said:

I would like to install on my new 2012 Passat TDI SEL the hood Lift Supports, Struts.
Can somebody help me to figure out he best part to use?
Maybe the one from the B6 or other VW model with be a perfect fit.
I think this is a small project mod that won't brake anybody pockets and will be a great addition o our cars..
Please let me know your thoughts..

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Since no one else seems interested...............I'll pm you when I get mine installed.

I would gladly give you my B5's hood strut if you can figure out how to install a simple prop rod in it instead.

dweisel said:

Since no one else seems interested...............I'll pm you when I get mine installed.

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Huh??? Care to elaborate? I thought you had gone elsewhere, except for your occasional valuable HPFP posts?

tdiatlast said:

Huh??? Care to elaborate? I thought you had gone elsewhere, except for your occasional valuable HPFP posts?

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No, I really don't care to comment. Other than our gasser Jettas have been trouble free so far. I'd rather be driving a diesel,but no 1st generation VW tdi's for me.. Hopefully the VW 2nd generation CR tdi's will be better.

Who really needs these? How often does anyone really need to go under the hood on these TDI's?

Besides, I thought these new hoods went up to "service mode" which is really far back. Not sure the struts would allow the full function of the hood.

Then again, that could have been the MB. I looked at too many cars this time around to really remember for sure.

Contact www.redlinetuning.com and possibly in the future they will offer a kit for Passat.

I agree, Why bother. How often do you need to open the hood. The hood rod works and won't fail and have the hood fall on your head as do the struts on my Blazer,s rear window.

TDICT said:

I agree, Why bother. How often do you need to open the hood. The hood rod works and won't fail and have the hood fall on your head as do the struts on my Blazer,s rear window.

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This is no help to the OP. Struts are wanted for their car, no one is asking you to install them on yours.

Y'all are a bunch of nannys sometimes.

Thank you all for your help.
Already contact redlinetuning to see if the will have a kit available sometime this year.

Oberkanone said:

This is no help to the OP. Struts are wanted for their car, no one is asking you to install them on yours.

Y'all are a bunch of nannys sometimes.

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LOL x2!

Back in the day companies like neuspeed and autotech sold kits for the mk1/2/3s and they sold like crazy. A few of them may have something out soon because VW is going back to the prop rod after people got used to the struts.

How often do you open the hood? for a bunch of people who say do everything by the book that means you should be opening your hood about once a week to check fluid levels. 50+ times a year a strut is more convenient.


All that aside as someone else said the OP wants a strut if you don't fine but that doesn't mean he cannot have one. I just read in another post someone actually say if you want to change the wheels don't buy a German car, why can't people modify their own cars without people telling them they can't?

chris@revotechnik said:

. 50+ times a year a strut is more convenient.

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Until it quits working... then it is not convenient at all.

Sorry, man, but I open hoods on all kinds of cars every day... the ones with struts are the ones that are a PITA because they fail. Prop rods work. You can lift the hood on my 21 year old Jetta and see its original prop rod works EXACTLY the same as it did when it left the factory, never cost a dime after the car was purchased.

I can also roll all 4 windows up and down, open and close the trunk lid, and lock/unlock all 4 doors exactly the same as new, too.

Sometimes the simple stuff that works is a breath of fresh air, especially on a Volkswagen, where the complex stuff is the stuff that always seems to break.

Oh, and when you tell people they need a $60 prop rod for the hood, they always say "why, I never open the hood anyways?"

I've worked on tens of thousands of cars just like you and never had a single one that had a strut which was failed. Hatch yes hood no.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen but this is like saying don't drive your car because one day it will need new tires.

It still doesn't change the fact that if you don't want it don't do it. Who are you to tell anyone what they should or should not do to their car to make it more enjoyable for themselves? I get it you like the prop rod great that has nothing to do with the OP.

I find it impossible to believe that you have never, ever seen a hood strut that was bad. Sorry.
And I offered to GIVE him mine, if he could find a way to make his B7's rod work on my B5 (which I know would be almost impossible, as they are so different).

This would be very helpfull for some one that is handicapped. The hood is heavy to lift

danielpd said:

This would be very helpfull for some one that is handicapped. The hood is heavy to lift

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Vw doesn't sell enough of these to handicapped folks to justify putting a gas strut in. Buy an Audi if you need gas struts.