Second Hand Vauxhall Agila Bonnet Strut

No — the Vauxhall Agila does not use a gas bonnet strut to hold its bonnet open. Instead, the Agila uses a simple manual prop rod (sometimes called a bonnet stay or bonnet prop) that you slot into a hole to hold the bonnet up. If you need a replacement, search for a Vauxhall Agila bonnet stay rod rather than a bonnet strut.

You want a bonnet stay rod or bonnet prop rod, which is a metal rod that clips into a bracket on the underside of the bonnet and locates into a hole when the bonnet is open. These are a very common used part that most Vauxhall breakers will have on the shelf. When contacting a breaker, give them your registration so they can confirm the correct rod for your specific Agila generation (A or B).

The Agila A (roughly 2000–2004) and Agila B (roughly 2007–2015) are different generations on different platforms, so their bonnet hardware is unlikely to be interchangeable. Stick to sourcing the prop rod from the same generation as your car, and confirm this with the breaker against your registration before buying.

No — trim level has no bearing on the bonnet stay rod, as it is a functional item shared across all trim variants within a generation. An Agila Club, Design, or Expression of the same generation will all use the same prop rod. The only distinction worth checking is which generation your car belongs to, which your breaker can verify from your registration.

No Agila variant — regardless of engine, trim, or body style — was ever fitted with gas bonnet struts from the factory; the prop rod arrangement was used throughout the model's entire production run on both generations. If someone has fitted aftermarket gas struts, those would not be a standard used part available from a breaker. For a like-for-like repair, a bonnet stay rod from a dismantled Agila is what you need.