Custom Boot Strut Help

[gazz292]

Getting some springs tomorrow, place called 'Cromwells' do them for just over a quid each:   https://www.cromwell.co.uk/shop?query=20x25

They also have shops all over the country, one near where im staying atm, so nipping there tomorrow to hopefully get a pair of light and medium springs.

Now remember i have a meriva... boot needs to move from vertical.. struts dont kick in till it about a foot open.. but i'm thinking my struts are weak.. i have to push the boot up sometimes... looking into getting higher pressure struts too.

An alternative is to use some door popper pusher thingies :



They'd go in place of the rubber and plastic screw in bumpers in the boot lid that cushion the boot closing now, 
i did think about solenoid operates versions of the poppers above, to give the boot a good shove when the lock is released. 

Which brings me onto the next problem, releasing the boot lock remotely, not an option on my car... i read the happy light show module can do that on some cars... but they dont list the meriva B... as i don't believe it is full canbus, 
so there may not be a canbus controlled boot release signal (lock is electric... and the button in the tailgate is a common thing to fail on these cars.. i've replaced it once) 

So i'm thinking i'll need to do some can bus sniffing and make a circuit up that will interpret 2 unlock signals from the remote in quick succession and it triggers the boot release via a relay in the wires.... OR get a remote that has the boot release button on it, and somehow get the signal of boot release via a seperate reciever that triggers the boot release motor.