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04-26-2014, 05:18 PM
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Gas Charged Lift Supports
Why do they use gas charged lift supports on vehicles instead of springs? The gas charged supports wear out, so a spring seams a more reliable choice.
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04-27-2014, 03:51 PM
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Re: Gas Charged Lift Supports
Reliability is less of a concern in these applications than ease of design and manufacture and safety. For hood, trunk, and liftgate applications springs a spring hinge that would provide a slow opening and closing and take up minimal space would require a lot of engineering and might not be usable across multiple models. Also, the springs and linkages have pinch points that can cause injury.
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