Please and thank you, I'll keep it short, simple and to the point. I have already posted this on numerous Nissan/Infiniti forums I belong too, but I would ask for help from you guys who belong and are respected members of other major forums for Honda's, Mazda's, etc....
Basically I want this to get out to all the major North American forums, I would spend time signing up for each forum because I feel this information is worth all that effort, but I also think it would serve the cause even better if some of you guys who are already established and known members of these forums to re-post this up there since you have more credibility than me a guy with 1 post on some forum.
I would like firstly warn my fellow RS members about Ichiba Camber kits since they DO sell like hotcakes, these things are on some recall due to manufacturing defect level bullshit straight up.
If you guys could please help out and repost this on other forums, I would not be the only one that will appreciate it you can bet on that.
Also check back in here and post up a link to your thread so we can all see what forums it went up on.
Really thanks a lot guys, and I'm sure everyone who sees it will find this very useful information.
btw: here's my post in the tech section of just a little bit of what I had to deal with when I was taking these off
http://www.revscene.net/forums/66592...ml#post7876128
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I would like to warn fellow members of catastrophic failures of Ichiba Camber Kits. Firstly I would like to make clear one thing, I know we are mostly all aware of "
cheap eBay parts" that can fail at any time.
But the reason this Ichiba issue needs to be brought up is because this specific product masquerades as a midrange to high end part (price range new is between $300 and $400) but yet the quality is worse than simple cheap eBay parts. They fail
CATASTROPHICALLY, and the potential for worst case scenario there is very high, that's why I'm not the only one that feels this needs to be pushed out there. If it was some cheap eBay part people would already know to stay away, but this isn't the case, like I said they sell this as a high end component which is where the danger is.
I myself personally fell for it when I paid over $400 for it, and I'm a fairly knowledgeable person when it comes to parts and have spent a lot of money on authentic, and even some carefully picked replica parts. My very first thought when I was about to buy this kit was "
Well for $400+ it's in the same price range as some of the highest end kits you can buy, so it should be safe"
My video and experience is below, but for starters here's just a handful of threads with horrible Ichiba failures that literally took me a minute to find, and this from just one Nissan forum. Pay attention to the very first thread there's some pics of a member who literally crashed his car as a result of his Ichiba kit snapping in half, he's not the only person this has happened too, there's a few members on the Nissan 350/G35 forums that have had this same exact failure, they aren't the first and if we don't spread the word, they won't be the last either.
Ichiba rear camber arms almost killed me - G35Driver
Ichiba camber arms FTL - G35Driver
Ichiba suspension parts = total garbage!!! - G35Driver
Now here are my videos I made only a few minutes long but go into full detail on this issue, very self explanatory... (sorry about the music, wasn't loud at all when makin the vid, guess the phone mic amplified the sound)
My kit failed in every way possible except breaking in half like some of these other guys out there, so I feel very lucky. But I wonder how many more cases out there are just like this, hopefully no more after word really gets out.
