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Originally Posted by MN Driver
The stock struts failed on me about a week back when we hit a -10f cold snap and slowly lost oil over a few days. I didn't think they would both fail at the same time or so quickly....
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You may only have one that actually failed but the other is not strong enough to handle the additional load making it seem like it failed as well.
I had this happen to me awhile back but I purchased two from Majestic anyway (back when they would still ship them).
When it is very cold outside, I slowly open the hatch pausing a bit then opening more, pause then open till fully extended. This seems to be less stressful in the extreme cold weather. I also do this to the hood of my Lexus ES300. I don't know if this will really help to prevent failure but I have been doing that method over the last five years or so. I open it normally in the warmer weather though.
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