I have a 2008 hard lid with the scissor arms. I like them. A couple of issues though. Sometimes the cable gets caught on them when folding the bed up or dwon, and the bottom of one of the end frames has come loose. I examined a hockey stick style brace on a new expanda and it looks quite easy to covert to one. You need the hockey stick obviously, a white plasticfitting over which the far end of the hockey stick sits - it needs to be pop rivetted presumably to the centre top of the rear frame, and a hole made for the other end of the hockey stick at the top in the metal frame of the bed opening. There is a plastic grommet type thing that will go in this hole to make it look neat but there is room in our vans to do it - the bed opening frame looks the same.