DeLorean Motor Company (Texas) was the vendor where the struts were purchased from that Rick Gendreau had problems with the struts being 5mm too long for his application. Stephen and I discussed this issue and these were the points that we think merit noting: In the past twelve months, we've sold more than 1500 of these struts, and have had three or four instances where the additional length was a problem - and ALL of those instances involved with very low (sub-1000) VIN's or cars that had been in a crash or modified in some way. A look at these pages: http://www.gendreaumicro.com/tenpointtwo/body.htm http://www.gendreaumicro.com/tenpointtwo/lift.htm shows that Rick's car falls into that latter category. While we're not trying to pick on Rick or his project (we think what he's done is pretty ingenious), sometimes when extreme modifications like this are made, sometimes things that would work before, might no longer be the case any longer. While there's no clear link between the problems he's experienced and the fact that the body hung by the wheelwells for a couple months and large pieces were cut out of it (which by his own admission makes it very flimsy) - we've never seen a later car like his (11472) have this problem (some of the later VIN RHD cars - 12XXX series - used very early underbodies, and they are the exception). A 5mm increase in the length of the strut translates into a couple inches or so with the door fully open, resulting in significantly more room for ingress/egress from the DeLorean - something no one will complain about. For the very small number of cars that this affects, shorter ends are available for the struts. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. James Espey NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS/PHONE NUMBERS DeLorean Motor Company 15023 Eddie Drive Humble, Texas 77396 281/441-2537 Voice 281/441-2813 Fax 800/USA-DMC1 http://www.delorean.com