Morning all. Wonder if anyone on here could recommend which replacement electric Boot struts they purchased (non SKODA ones). After 11 years and god know how many openings I Think back right has gone. I can see a few on eBay / Amazon and guess they are probably all made in same China factory but just checking in.

Many thanks in advance.

Hello,

I'm looking for the same thing, when I bought the car the old owner replaced the electric telescopes with classic ones and now I'm looking to replace them with electric ones like the factory car was.

I noticed that the OEM ones are very expensive. Maybe we can find some AFM at a reasonable price.

Maybe we can get an answer from someone who has already replaced them.

Morning. By chance I stumbled across someone who had a pair of OEM new old stock that I nabbed (waiting for them to arrive). I saw a lot of Chinese non OEM ones about that had good reviews and was going to grab a set of those and saw these. I’ll let you know if no good! Just need another couple of years out of The superb - hoping to get it past 300k miles

Mine have just decided to stop opening and just bleep at me instead. Any ideas what might be the issue? Were working fine yesterday..

So the OEM ones I ordered never came through off eBay so just bought some generic ones from There. About £45 for one. Very easy job to swap old one out and this one in. Did panic that I hadn’t disconnected the battery first in case it messed with the programming but think as one still connected it was fine. Now works like a charm. Inspecting the old one you can see at least 2 of the wires had snapped due to the play in that junction. In hindsight probably could have connected them again but felt they would be weak still.

If you pull back the rubber grommet attaching ti the metal Body you should see if any issues on these wires

Bought the ones on the link below. Was a voucher off them last week. Att photo of the damaged wires below. Probably an easy fix but don’t have any soldering equipment, or skill!

https://ebay.io/m/mo0nOh

Do you have any pictures of the installation? That would be very helpful to me.

Did you simply unplug the old ones and install the new ones?

3 hours ago, scubasad said:

Mine have just decided to stop opening and just bleep at me instead. Any ideas what might be the issue? Were working fine yesterday..

not strictly correct. had another try and the boot will open about 6" then stop and start bleeping at me. I then have to manually open and close. I`m guessing this is not a wire break or it wouldnt open at all, any ideas?

Yeah didn’t think bout that but it’s really very simple. You have to pop off a small piece of trim at the rear of the side window. Undo the 2 plug clips. Will be obvious which ones. Then follow the strut rubber sleeve and pull out of the bodywork. To remove the actually strut it’s held on by 3 retaining staples that you lever up but not off. This releases the socket off the ball on the car. Am sure there must be a video somewhere. If it helped Skoda local dealer wanted about 440 quid for the job. All in was about 20 mins and 50 quid on eBay

I'm not 100%sure but I think the right hand one stopped working and the left one could take a certain amount of the weight but not the full weight. I know this because if i lift it helping it would go up.