tailgates are getting fancier, and nicer. These shock absorbers make it a lot less jarring, and eliminate the slamming open and closed tailgate noise

Above you can see they had to add one plate for the top end of the strut

but the bottom end just taps into and creates it's own threads in the tailgate

and the above and below show the difference on the other side of the tailgate where there isn't a strut