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Punx0r · SD1 Regular Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 252

Tired of feeble gas struts on the car's bonnet I ordered a poverty spec bonnet stay from Rimmers whilst ordering a few other bits I needed. This is what you get:

I don't know if I'm being thicker than a whale omlette, but I can't see where the rod is supposed to connect to the bodywork. Am I missing an all-important bracket?

v8driver · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:22 am Post subject:

You are indeed (missing a bracket that is),There is a long running bracket that runs alongside the rad

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Sorry about the picture quality but its almost midnight here,I couldn't even see the bracket until the flash went off.

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KwS · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: Re: Bonnet stay

Punx0r wrote:

a poverty spec bonnet stay

awwww.... my car must be poverty then Razz

heres a couple of pics of the bracket

Punx0r · SD1 Regular Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 252

Thanks, I see now Smile

Bracket or better gas struts wanted Wink

JayDeeVDP · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: Poverty spec

Vanden Plas Efi? Poverty spec?

What's plush spec then? Wink

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Punx0r · SD1 Regular Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 252

My mistake - I assumed all the higher spec cars would have gas struts Wink

v8driver · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:54 am Post subject:

gas struts are only Vitesse aren't they?

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ramon alban · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject:

I retrofitted bonnet gas struts to my 1985 Efi VDP and had to fit the securing brackets too.

Is it possible that all the very late cars produced in 1986 had gas struts.

Ramon

the yorkshireman · SD1 User Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 28

My late TP vitesse May 86 built, reg 87 has gas bonnet struts that have tried (and are tired) to compress me many a time. Rimmer have gas ones listed at £24 GST108 - should invest in them maybe.

v8driver · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject:

That the price of each? The SD1 club shop has a pair at £42...both about the same price really if thats an each price.

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Punx0r · SD1 Regular Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 252

Yes, Rimmer's price is each. They're not that expensive I suppose, but ~£50 would buy a pair of springs/shocks. The flacid bonnet is really only a convinience issue to me.

I thought about getting an pair from ebay (apparently quite new). They were for sale with a pair of front indicators for £14.99 and attracted no bids. I wasn't interested in the indicators so enquired about just the struts after the auction had finished "sure, £20 + post" says he, "lol" says I, and explain about the recently finished auction and offered £10. I recieved no reply!

Chris P · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject:

ramon alban wrote:

I retrofitted bonnet gas struts to my 1985 Efi VDP and had to fit the securing brackets too.

I'm amazed VDP EFi cars didn't have the gas struts. I'm certain
all Vitesses had them, from introduction in 1982 - the review of
ROE977Y showed them. Also fairly sure NADA cars had the gas struts
(maybe V8-S also?) from 1979/80. I assumed all VDP cars had them
too.

ramon alban · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:

Chris P wrote:

I assumed all VDP cars had them
too.

And would you believe when I picked up a couple of gas struts with brackets attached at a billing spares day, i managed to select two with the same handed brackets and then had to bend one of them to the other hand to make the job work.

I'm looking for an early foto of the bonnet stay fixing on my vdp.

Ramon

v8driver · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:54 am Post subject:

fortunatly,my Vitesse came with new bonnet and tailgate stuts on it.

Also a few SD1 club stickers and tax disk holder,aren't I lucky?

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londonbabe · SD1 User Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 81

I haven't worked out if there's actually logic for this.

My Y-reg 2000 had gas struts, and that was decidedly poverty spec. My 1987 2300 has a bonnet stay. I assumed it was just part of the decontenting that they performed on later models. My early S2 also had driver's glovebox lock and front door open lights that were deleted from the late one, for example.

I am surprised that an EFi would not have them though. I guess late on in life Rover were just using up stock and a bodyshell for a 2300 might have ended up being built up as a VdP?