Boot Load Cover/Floor Gas Strut

[bananarama]

Originally Posted by Puffster

Can someone post a picture of where these struts go please? My ex-Police car had a bit of carpeted mdf instead of the floor panel and I had to get one from a scrapper. I had no idea that these actually existed!

There you go: https://youtu.be/X05qhEr0Yl0

[YorkR]

Originally Posted by mjk164

Thanks you guys for all this info. Today, I replaced the original boot floor strut on my 2009 V70 D5244 T5 with one from Meyle and it works a treat; about an 1" longer but fully supports the floor with my tools in etc. Very grateful.

A bit of information for those looking to retrofit the strut to the later XC70 and V70 models that didn’t come with the strut from the factory.

My 2014 didn’t have a strut, therefore I’m order to retrofit I bought a used floor panel (as mine needed replacing anyway) and made sure the one I bought had the small attachment knob fitted.

I then bought a used left hand side floor rail as this is where the lower attachment point is, again made sure it had the attachment knob on it.

Finally I cut the slot out of the storage tray (using pictures of used trays online) and fitted a brand new strut - which works perfectly.

All in the cost was approx £65 - £35 for the floor, £15 for the rail and £15 for the strut.