eapprill

Our pheomatic tubes do not hold up the truck lid! What a DANGEROUS SITUATION! The lid fell down on my wife's shoulder and it is requiring surgery... Lexus in very negligent to supply such a POOR DESIGN AND PRODUCT..... Where can we buy new ones without paying the $375 price quoted by the Lexus Dealer? After market stores say Lexus has failed to release any specs so Lexus in making it difficult. Thanks, Earl

jeffyjeffy

Mine, too. Did anyone respond with aftermarket truck shocks? Please reply to jeffyjeffy@aol.com. Thanks.

PureDrifter

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its not really poor product design as it is the fact that the LS430 is starting to age, so stuff that normally wears out over time, is wearing out. hood/trunk shocks go bad in every car no matter who makes it, its just a matter of time. im sorry that your wife had that happen but u cant really blame Lexus for using nitrogen shocks to lift the trunk and hood as it is an industry standard and there is no way that you can keep the shocks from going bad.

GRAND_LS 4

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If I were you, I would call Lexus' 1800 number, and at the prompt that asks "if your calling to tell us about the experiance your having with your Lexus, or Lexus dealer" then tell them about the situation. Surely, they will take care of you. Especially if it caused your wife serious injury. I would go as far as having them pay for the surgery if she's going to have one. Or have your lawyer send them a letter.

jflynn

Bull. You obviously don't have an LS430 with more than 40K miles, because I do and I've had a lot of other cars with similar miles and my LS430's trunk lid fell on my head once and it hurt like heck. No other car ever had this problem. It's one of the very few design flaws in the car, but it's a huge problem. It's not so much the design of the struts, but ratjer the design of the trunk lid linkage.

You don't know what you're talking about. Other cars' trunk lids don't do this even after 100K miles.

PureDrifter

iTrader: (10)

no personal experience with trunk lids but i have had the hoods of 3 LS400s fall on my head :'(

Frank T

Lexus changed mine two days before the warranty period ended.

lnguyenh

The trunk lid drops on my head at least 3 times too. I am trying to sell this car before I get killed!

Frank T

Gas struts are gas struts, no matter who makes them. They are all a A Pain In The A$$ and every one of them gets weaker from day one on.

They are the ONLY real problem that I have had with my LS in 4 years, and Lexus replaced they under warranty (no problem). If I have to change them again in another 4 years, I can live with that.

Frank

CG lover

had bad gas struts on two Ford Mustangs before they reached 40K on the meter,, so others do have the same issues,, just that I could buy them at Autozone for about $30 a car,,

DDLexus

Still no aftermarket source for Trunk Support Cylinders or Hood Support Cylinders? AKA "Struts".

V8_Fan

How about these? Some guys on the landcruiser forum have used them on the rear hatch of their LX470s. For $30.60 each, it's hard to go wrong (need to replace them in pairs).

http://www.autopartsbylou.com/lift-s...005&type=Trunk

Otherwise, OEM ones are $110 EACH.

http://lexuspartsonline.com/index2.h...&siteid=214281

--Jim

Boomer01

Many people have bought the trunk struts on ebay.

DDLexus

Are the trunk and hood struts the same part? Interchangeable?

V8_Fan

No. The hood weighs a lot more than the trunk, so how could they be the same?
The hood cylinders are $77 ea while the trunk ones are $110. Yes, the trunk ones cost MORE despite having to hold up less weight!