Yeah, I had this great idea to get new black bolts to my rims instead the chromed ones. Maladar said that I need to tell the story.
Ok, I asked from the SSR/Tanabe USA about the bolts some time ago, and I didn’t get any reply. I thought “how hard could it be?” and took one bolt off. I measured the bolt carefully and I found out it was a M6 x 25mm, pretty easy to replace, eh?
After some googling, I found a local company specialized in various screws. I made an order of 160 screws and got ’em in no time. Then, one day at the garage, I started to change the bolts. Mr. 3ngin3man (he likes trains) had a vacation and nothing to do, so he offered to help me. At the second bolt, he said that there is nothing on the other side, and to my horror, I noticed that half of the bolts we’re fakes. We checked one fake bolt, which measured M6 x 6mm.
Well, time to order some more. After a very long time, I got my M6 x 6mm’s. There were only 41 of them (I needed at least 80) and they had the wrong coating on them. Great! I called the company and asked about the bolts and they told me that M6 x 6mm is really rare and they recommended M6 x 8mm instead. I wasn’t sure at the moment if that size would fit, so one more day to wait (until I got new measures). I measured the length of the threads and ordered those M6 x 8mm bolts.
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