Toyota Sera Doors

The humble and uncommon Wikipedia:Toyota Sera has these nifty nifty doors. So-called 'butterfly wing'. These are the doors which inspired the McLaren F1 - which in turn started the trend for supercars to have butterfly wings.

Toyota Sera is a trend setter. Otherwise, it's a pretty ordinary 2+2 coupe...

Anyway, a downside to the funky doors is they do not fail gracefully, and when the gas strut which pushes them open for you then fails, you find out they are damn heavy

This happened to me, so I set about to swap the strut for the one on my newly 'spare parts' (ie, it's a minor wreck) Sera.

Mainly, I followed the guide here: http://www.omicron.uk.com/sera/forum/index.php?showtopic=3804

Now, some pictures to illustrate...

awaiting picture uploads