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God forbid they ever do indicate... no knowing what they'll end up doing!
I did a bit of swearing.
BUT, the nuts, bolts and washers had escaped their press-seal bag and were loose in the carton. The carton had suffered a puncture during transit and I'm missing a few bits...they've escaped ! Called the supplier and all very good, but it will be Monday before replacement bits will be sent.....grrr, wanted to do some work with it this weekend.
Annoyance #1 - Turns out that well-thought-out Japanese engineering doesn't extend to realising that gas struts are going to lose their oomph eventually, and thus might need replacing. Turns out that the ball end bolt attaches to the strut in such away that it's basically impossible to release it.
Annoyance #2 - Turns out the bolt is glued into the tailgate. This is combined with the fact that the hex part of it appears to be made out of cheese (I assume that they only made it look like it was designed to be removed as some sort of engineering humour). My eye has begun to twitch at this point.
Annoyance #3 - The standard solution to this is to cut off the bolt between the "nut" part and the ball end (stop laughing at the back), then heat up the bolt with a small blowtorch to melt the glue. However, even though the "nut" part appears to be made of cheese, from that point out it appears to be made out of some kind of ultra-hard titanium-like substance and is thus hacksaw-resistant from every angle. The eye twitch has become a throbbing vein on the side of my head.
Annoyance #4 - I try to approach it from a different angle, and figure that cutting the housing for the ball end would release it. The only result is that the black paint on it is slightly scratched, but I've also managed to scratch the paint on the inside of the tailgate now. Not only have I failed to remove even one of the boot struts, I now have a second job to prime and respray that bit so that it doesn't rust.
I am now in a full-blown hate spiral, and it's only 9:20am...and I'm yet to actually load the gear into the car, which was the whole damn point of fixing the boot struts.
Mercifully, practice went OK, so I at least didn't have to kill anyone.