Congratulations Slotfixr on your purchase, and welcome to the LOC! About your question, when you say it's under a lot of tension do you mean it's hard to move, period? I have a 95 and in the owners manual is states that half way through the opening of the trunk, the lid is suppose to slow to allow any water to drain on to the rear glass gradually, thus minimizing the amount of water that would possibly spill in to the open trunk.