Coming home after a long trip to the Outer Hebrides, I realised my gas strut on the handbrake of my 2015 Troll 530 had failed. The handle flops and has to be pulled hard up to second notch to engage. Getting it fixed seems harder than I expected. Mobile repairers don't know the part number, Al Ko say they need the 811 number that's on a silver sticker on the overrun to confirm what I need - no sign of that...and even LeisureFirst (where we bought it) could only send a link to a part on an Al Ko trailer specialist site with a slightly un-confidence building note "we THINK it's this one"..... I assume it's a case of fitting a new handbrake assembly with gas strut included but which?? Any advice or experience of this most welcome!!!

Hi Randa, thanks - but that's the main towing damper. I'm talk about the HANDBRAKE gas strut, part of the handbrake lever mech. Pushes the handbrake lever up when the reverse device operates on the overrun.

Yes you do need to replace the whole handbrake I think from memory the whole coupling is the 161S and the alko part no is alko 220096