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Joeb be forewarned, Ichiba has a crap reputation on here. All you need to do is search for the multiple fail threads about the brand in Driver to read about the issues. I personally have had 4 different Ichiba products fail in some way or another including the extended bolts and nuts on a spacer set. The threads were extremely soft and stripped on more than 1 bolt and the nuts are very soft and round off way too easily if you put any force on them. If it were me I'd send those back if you haven't installed them yet but YMMV, just be careful.
I did some research and it seems that everyone on here recommended the Ichiba stuff. Supposedly the old studs they had were softer and silver in color. They fixed that issue by supplying the harder, gold colors studs, which came with my kit. I'm also not using any nuts from them as these spacers require the use of the existing nuts.
I cant find any other 10mm spacer that has actually been tested by a lotta people.
with that said why even buy spacers that dont already have the studs pressed in? ichibas really suck lol such an outdated product design
I think the 10mm aluminum spacer is just too thin to have the studs pressed into it. Theres just not enough material to take the forces of the wheel hitting potholes n bumps n such. I would have a hard time trusting it.
Last edited by cleric670; Apr 13, 2019 at 07:52 PM.
I've got some H&R's in 20mm & 25mm that I'm gonna replace with 5-10mm larger spacers and if these stupid cheap spacers r good then that would be swell.
BTW, my 2c regarding the "pressed or not to be pressed" in studs is this; longer studs r not as strong as shorter studs BUT if strength is not of the ultimate concern AND weight is AND you can diy that **** OR you've got $ to burn, then pressing in new, longer studs will be the way to go because the studs will weight a little less and there will be only 1 set of nutz.
I did some research and it seems that everyone on here recommended the Ichiba stuff. Supposedly the old studs they had were softer and silver in color. They fixed that issue by supplying the harder, gold colors studs, which came with my kit. I'm also not using any nuts from them as these spacers require the use of the existing nuts.
I cant find any other 10mm spacer that has actually been tested by a lotta people.
I also, back in the day, went with Ichiba because of the recommendations I came across.
Anyway, the extended studs that came with the Ichiba’s where gold and I’m still running them with my current spacers on my current wheel setup; as well as my track rears.
I live in Oklahoma and I can tell you the roads here are absolute garbage.
Two step launches, highway pulls w/ RAL, drifting, you name it...
I personally have not had any issues with the studs or either spacers for the past 7+ years.
Last edited by joeb1983; Apr 13, 2019 at 01:01 PM.
Car got a REAL wash today, first one this year. Weather is finally good and no more concerns about freak snowstorms so it's back to regular maintenance.
Went for a nice long drive last night, noticed a tiny squeaking sound from the front right corner when I was traveling under 5mph, probably time for front wheel bearings.
Tried installing LEDs for the reverse taillights..unscrewed the first set of three screws on the driver side and swapped the bulb for the LED. Now for the right side.....and...Houston...we got a problem. Something is attached to the deepest/outer screw...not sure what the wire leads to. Could it be the spoiler taillight? How to remove? Has a white cap or covering over the screw. I could use some help.
just put the through a MOT ,its a yearly test to make shore that the car is road worthy in the UK, no faults found so happy days . also just changed the headlights as had condensation in one light and new they would pull me up on that . only problem was getting right hand drive lights as they don't do sod all for the car in the UK.
