All my hood and hatch shocks are completely shot. have to hold them both up by hand or broomstick. wheres the cheapest place to pick them up? dont want to go the junkyard route because if by some mircale i find them, they probably dont have much life left in them anyway.

 

maybe a local advance auto parts or pep boys..

 

hah... i got lucky... i found hatch struts at the junkyard

 

I didn't even bother to replace the hood pistons after mine went and I put on the 'glass hood....I picked up a hood strut out of a who-knows-what from a junkyard for next to nothing and mounted it to the radiator support. Ta-da!! No more broomstick, no more worrying that the hoods gonna come crashing down on me, no more clamping vise grips on the piston rod and throwing the hood out of alignment...and it actually looks pretty trick.

 

The prop rod works great until one day you forget it's there and knock it out and down comes the hood. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, and have the scars too prove it.

I got one set from Advance Auto parts and the other set I got from the junkyard.