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Old 05-14-2017, 05:24 PM   #147 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Enough View Post
It looks like a mass damper to eliminate some resonance, rattle or vibration. Maybe from the exhaust at certain engine speeds of from road input.
Good thread- this is almost certainly the function of this part rather than making the hatch easier to close. If that was their aim, why not simply make the gas struts less strong.

Lots of oems use mass dampers for NVH reasons, limiting vibration or resonance.
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