I think if a guy were to try a few different sizes, you could find hood struts that work for our cars for a lot cheaper. Just trying to figure out how long we need and brackets and everything. Redline did all the hard work of finding that out but yeah any automotive parts store should have a selection of 50 plus different lengths of hood struts. I've thought about it already. Not sure if we need 2 struts either. If I recall, the sorento only has 1. Precrack, you work at Kia hey? Does any other models have hood struts? Maybe optima? Or sportage? I think the sorento probably to big for us but maybe another car will have something with brackets that would work on forte?