Hood Struts and Lift Supports The hood strut is used to keep the front hood up on your car or truck. If the hood of your car wants to fall on your head, this is an indication that you need to change the hood struts. Make sure you know how many hood struts your car needs before ordering, and if the car has two, you should replace the struts as a set.
Replacing a hood strut is an easy job only requiring only simple hand tools. The hood strut is like a shock that becomes uncompressed when the hood, trunk or hatch is opened. Normally this works fine but over time the strut may wear out and be unable to hold the hood or hatch open anymore.