Originally Posted by sewin
Ah! John, brilliant job and I have to say now..... its on my list! what an irksome job holding that all out of the way while trying to access the rear shelf! Stupidly I hadn't really registered how I hated the whole procedure until you voiced it! Now it's really annoying me! swear

We've used a length of 21mm plastic overflow pipe with a bit of rubber hose on each end for many years to just simply prop the hood open, I really should make a proper alloy one as per Themorganeer's design one day

Jon M