Renault Laguna III - 2.0dCI Sport Tourer Owner's Review - Alanovich
Aye, I don't think it's a Renault exclusive thing. I expect they're all made by the same couple of companies across most car makers. I've ordered replacement parts from SGS Engineering - they seem to make struts for just about anything. 2 year guarantee only, which kind of tells you that they are pretty much guaranteed to fail sometime. In fairness, the warning signs were there as the boot was very heavy to close, but I'd thought nothing of it - I didn't realise it was an indication of imminent failure. Every day's a school day.