Rear boot door is bad design?

[ozgti]

Just did this simple mod.

Unbolt the ball joint on the body and rotate it 180 deg. It's the black bracket held on by 2 torx bolts.
You will have to unhook both struts to make it easier and use a broom handle to hold it up or do what I did and use your head!
Once both the brackets are backwards (no need to swap side to side- just rotate it!), the hatch will be slightly lower. *
Once this is done, close the hatch (will need more force to close, but I'd rather that than a hatch that doesn't know if it's open or closed!)
Push and hold the middle boot release button and watch your 10mins of handy work!

*You will need to get the other sturts if you want the hatch to clear your head (if you're tall or just duck a bit more!)


Cancel that. The struts aren't strong enough to push the hatch up. Looks like I'm going to order the Skoda struts!