Originally Posted by Carbon8ed

Just wanted to say thanks to teredactle - following the inspiration, I have fitted bonnet (hood) struts to my UK C-Crosser. Had to use different anchor points as Citroen put their nose and badges on it, but I used sentra struts from the East as I could not locate Boxi struts anywhere. Ball studs I got from well known auction site and it did quite a lot of fiddling to get the struts and fixings to clear everything that existed in the engine bay surrounds. The angles explanation is spot on as my strut angles are quite low so I have to lift is some of the way, but when open, there's so much more space to work.