Just fit a couple of new gas struts to the boot of my Yeti. What an easy 5 min job! Purchased from SGS Engineering. Can recommend them. Very pleased. Was going to ask dealer to change them at next service, but thanks to this forum was able to do the job myself. Think I've saved a few quid. 😊

Fully agree. I did the same thing recently and it really is in the "Even if you have absolutely no knowledge of cars and don't want to mess anything up you can do this" category. Dealer wanted the wrong side of £100 to replace just one side. (I guess an hour labour plus a "genuine Skoda part") . I also went to SGS based on recommendations on this forum but a few months in one side is now a bit grumbly. Not too bothered as it's par for the course if there is a bad one in a batch I'll buy it and it's working fine, much better then the piercing squeal every time the tailgate was opened or closed that forced a replacent in the first place. I sleep soundly knowing the worst case scenario is less than £20 and five minutes work to replace it. 

 

I do know it eventually cost the dealer a lot more than it cost me - I'd had the squeal for a while and there was some lateral play in the strut. When it was in for a service I asked for it to be replaced under warranty (I had the 5 year warranty) . I'd even checked with Skoda UK it was a warranty item and had a copy of the email. The Southampton dealer insisted it wasn't (despite my email and it not being an excluded item in the list in the wearrnty booklet) so not only didn't they get the work - I'd probably have paid for the part if asked but the labour element seemed "challenging" - but since then it gets serviced at a much more convenient local garage who charges me a lot less.

It was your great post 'thanks to the more technically minded' that made me think I'd do this myself. No plans to change my Yeti. No alternates out there that can really replace it.

I deal with SGS through work quite a lot and I was impressed enough to ask our purchasers to add them to the list of preferred suppliers 👍