Hold up door super well.

I’ve owned my 1990 Westfalia since it was just two and now it’s all grown up and thirty five. Over the years Go Westy has been my go to for upgrades and replacement parts. Fortunately it’s never had damage and I’ve kept it garaged and almost all original. I considered the lighting and larger wheels/tires as life safety upgrades so didn’t feel I was destroying the great design of Volkswagen. This review is for the rear door struts that I just got to replace the sagging original ones. The difference is incredible, these new ones lift the door quickly up to full height and require two hands to bring down. Glad that Go Westy carries all the best ! Thanks

Fits perfectly and all parts need to install the hatch lifts were provided. No more mop handle to hold the rear hatch open anymore

Extremely easy install following the included instructions. I can finally ditch the stick the previous owner was using to hold the hatch open!

Super easy install, great fit.

Worked exactly as advertised. Only issue was getting the second old weaker hatch strut off once I replaced the first strut with a new GoWesty hatch strut

I was getting tired of opening my hatch, to then have it smack me when working on my 2.1. Ordered a new hatch strut. Easy to install. Works great. No more ghosts smacking me with my hatch.

Sorry you guys, but these are wonky. The silver ends are too thick and will never fit without adjustment. Watchout!!! These things throw the trunk lid at your face. Yikes! Just not what I am used to with GoWesty. Trick or treat. These are tricky. Need fixed or another brand.

Easy to find install and upgrade compared to original

I think these are too strong. They seem to be bowing the hatch. The latch is rubbing on one of the screws on the striker.

The struts are the bomb. The rear hatch stays up. As it should.

couldn’t be easier to install
just don’t drop the clip … heh
don’t cheeze out
buy 2
here me now
believe me later

Incredible strength that does a great job well worth the money

To my surprise the two new Hatch Struts lift the gate without me having to push up at all.

A win win!

Easy to order, great instruction video, excellent product. I replaced one of the two rear hatch struts and it's perfect. Now I have a spare for twenty years down the track...

Mine were starting to sag when I opened the back lid. Now, it stays up with no problem, and it is actually stiff to close. Very satisfied.

Fit perfectly. Good quality compared to the similarly priced and definitely better than the cheaper options.

These struts work great. They hold the weight of the rear hatch with no trouble. Easy to install, took less then 10mins for both.

Perfect amount of compression to close and it opens by itself. Also, the customer service rep that helped me was fantastic.

I have ordered these before and they are great. Recently had a mix up with shipping and they corrected the issue immediately. Great customer service.

Excellent price and the hatch flies open now. Takes a little extra effort to shut the hatch but it is worth it.

Good quality. Lifts the hatch well. I preferred the older style cerclip and reused. The enclosed clips were tiny and I didn't have a small enough ring pliers.

Noticed the hatch wasn't staying as high as it should. Got a pair of hatch struts and voila! One of the easiest repairs I've ever done. Handy to have someone hold the hatch while you're installing them, though.

the struts seem like they will fit but I didn't see the note to order a special tool to install the circlip.. I have a snap ring plier with several bits but none small enough to fit. I have on order a $42 dollar tool to install two clips that will probably be an upgrade as they tout, but can understand why they couldn't have mad the connection a bit thinner so the old clip that didn't need a special too could have been reused.

Make it easier opening the hatch compared to the worn out ones they replaced. Just the right amount of tension as well.

Although I had been advised by my machanic years agao to replace these one at a time...both of my struts were seemingly not doing the trick....replaced both and I like it? Does require a more effort to close the back latch, but on the upside it pops open nicely now! Theend that attaches to the car body (vs the tailgate) is substantially thicker (2x?) that the previous struts I had. This means no washers could fit in on either side of the strut end. I replaced the clips securing this end onto the car (the struts did not come w/ these clips and the old ones were in bad repair. I uised 8mm e-Clips which were a little hard to get on. Fols say "no clips needed" (which seems like it is likely true, but the eclips are cheap so...

Good service

had them for a while and they just keep working. My belts needed changing, no where better than under an underpass. Really happy the struts worked great that day

These things can lift a lot of weight way more than the door itself

Works great, just like an automatic lift.

Took like 20 seconds and suddenly i could ditch the 2x4 strut I was using