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Offline Mattyj

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Boot pop mod
« on: 08 April 2014, 15:32 »
Has anyone found a resonably priced supplier for the kit? Awesomevwant £84 ecs the american who make and supply them to awesome charge $88-£53 roughly,£83 is expensive for two gas struts
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Offline Hobojim

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Re: Boot pop mod
« Reply #1 on: 08 April 2014, 17:22 »
If you do enough googling there is a forum post that gives details of the part numbers and you can order them from your VW dealer for a lot less.

I think the gas struts are actually the ones from the Skoda Fabia.
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Offline RocketRossUK

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Re: Boot pop mod
« Reply #2 on: 08 April 2014, 18:50 »
yeah someone on the mk5 forum has the set to buy. most parts are OEM from skoda Octavias.
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Offline Mattyj

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Re: Boot pop mod
« Reply #3 on: 08 April 2014, 19:40 »
Oh rite cool, i have read a story or two where people have flupped tgeir struts an it works but rubs somewhere an takes the paint off :-/
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Offline dieselman

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Re: Boot pop mod
« Reply #4 on: 08 April 2014, 22:00 »
I have seen the other kits that have been added and I'm convinced the ECS kit is good!!!

no scraping with this kit so just put my order in tonight

scott :smiley:
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Offline Mattyj

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Re: Boot pop mod
« Reply #5 on: 09 April 2014, 07:07 »
Did you order from awesome gti?
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Offline Obbzi

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Re: Boot pop mod
« Reply #6 on: 09 April 2014, 20:05 »
I got the ECS kit off eBay for £30  :cool:
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Offline Mattyj

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Re: Boot pop mod
« Reply #7 on: 10 April 2014, 07:03 »
Lucky bastard
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Offline JayGTD

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Re: Boot pop mod
« Reply #8 on: 10 April 2014, 11:16 »
Some of you may find post 100  interesting:

http://www.golfmk6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37981&page=5

I have this mod planned on my to-do list, just never had the time to go out and find the springs.

Essentially, it's been around for ages and all it involves is putting a couple springs within the original struts and maybe flipping it around depending on if it's working or not

Jay
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Re: Boot pop mod
« Reply #9 on: 13 April 2014, 09:27 »
I was thinking about this then realised - when you unlock the car, if youve done the VAGCOM tweak that opens all locks when using the fob, that would mean that the boot woul pop each time you unlock the car wouldnt it?
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