Well the first time they were stolen they had no idea they they were in there, I was in a parking lot. Not only that but if i open the trunk, the subwoofers are going to be painfuly obvious, so might as well make it look good Second, I was worried about the gas shocks but did a few tests with some free weights and there isn't an issue at all with the weight. Even closing it wasn't too bad. Ive put a lot of thought into this just wanted to see if anyOne had some good ideas on how to make this possible.