Lift Supports

For passenger cars and light commercial vehicles

ZF Aftermarket product portfolio

Wether Black Nitride Rod or Anti-Spin Fittings: TRW Aftermarket provides OE-quality X-tend Lift Supports and components designed for cost-effective repair or replacement and enhanced driving comfort.

TRW x-tend lift support

TRW X-tend Lift Supports: Superior Performance and Lifetime Warranty

TRW X-tend Lift Supports offer customers best-in-class value through guaranteed lifting performance and long-term durability derived from TRW’s OE product development and validating process.

1. Black Nitride Rod: Corrosion resistance ensures the rod does not become contaminated with rust, which reduces sealing effectiveness and life

2. Superior Sealing: Smooth finish, robust guide/seal pack is low wear with high sealingintegrity – through all seasons for consistent performance

3. Anti-Spin Fittings: End fittings are secured with thread-lock to ensure they do not become partially unseated before installation

4. Low Wear Piston: Highly durable O-Ring sealing with an engineered polymer guide effectively separates the chambers of the body for a long service life and reliable performance

5. Precision Tube: Precision tube provides smooth and constant contact with the piston assembly - reducing wear while maintaining lifting performance over time

6. Limited Lifetime Warranty: TRW stands behind its product with a best-in-class Limited Lifetime warranty

With over 1,500 SKUs covering 99% of sales, the new TRW lift support product line is designed with the TRW focus of innovation, quality and engineering excellence. It is built to give a peace of mind to end-users through class-leading Limited Lifetime warranty, as well as give distributors a reliable, strategic partner in growing sales and profitability.

Stabilus - gas-charged lift supports

STABILUS gas-charged lift supports make it easy and safe to raise and lower heavy hoods, rear hatches and tailgates by hand. As the world’s leading manufacturer of lift supports STABILUS provides exact replacements for practically any application where a lift support is used. Learn more on this page or click through for EZDown tailgate supports.

Restores the original opening and closing speeds of your hood, hatch or trunk
Easy-to-install
No special tools required
Engineered for your application
Easy lifting and reduced closing effort
Consistent lifting force through 50,000 cycles
Rust-resistant piston rod extends product life
Dynamic damping technology, available on select lift supports

How to Replace your Vehicle’s Lift Support

Steps to Identifying Universal Replacement Lift Supports

1. Measure your old lift support from the middle of each rod connection point, not the absolute ends.
2. Measure the rod length from the middle of the rod end connection point to where the rod meets the tube.
3. Compressed length is determined by subtracting rod length (Step 2) from extended length (Step 1).
4. Ball sockets or eyelets on either the rod end or tube end.
5. Look on the tube end for the rated force. If the number is in Newtons, divide the figure by 4.45 to convert to pounds.
6. Locate your appropriate Lift Support on the chart for download below.

Check out how to do it

When a gas-charged lift support fails, simple activities like loading luggage become a hassle and even dangerous. In this video, we will demonstrate how to determine if you have a lift support beginning to fail. What to look for and how to find your replacement lift support.

EZDown Tailgate Support

EZDown Truck Accessory

The EZDown is an easy-to-install truck accessory that eliminates the unsafe and damaging effects of a slamming tailgate. Application coverage for select Chevy Dodge, Ford, GMC, Lincoln, Nissan and Toyota models.