I read this and it really touched me

[marrari_san]

Imitation car parts! I don't want my baby cruising around in fake crap!

FAKE

[Ever Victorious]

That's a good article. Those of you relatively new to tuning should pay special attention to it.

[Vahagn23]

so whats the dfference between a fake spring and a real spring if they would be made of the same thing just one is a fake name and the other is a brand name

[Andrews Chalmers]

so whats the dfference between a fake spring and a real spring if they would be made of the same thing just one is a fake name and the other is a brand name

If the counterfeit utilizes the same materials and processes and maintains the same quality control - there would be no difference.

But what sort of business produces counterfeits? Do you think they care to maintain the same quality?

[Ever Victorious]

so whats the dfference between a fake spring and a real spring if they would be made of the same thing just one is a fake name and the other is a brand name

But what sort of business produces counterfeits? Do you think they care to maintain the same quality?

Exactly. Eibach, Tanabe, Tein, H&R, and B&G all go through rigorous design and testing. When they build a spring, they use a very specific material composition, manufactured in a very specific way, treated and painted in a very specific way, and post-processed in a very specific way.

A counterfeit manufacturer of a spring is likely just to take a steel bar and heat it to wrap it into the shape of a spring, then let it cool, paint it, and ship it. It's going to LOOK like a spring... it MAY have some spring-like characteristics, but it is NOT going to perform in any way, shape, or form like the part it is intended to be a copy of. Heck, a counterfeit spring may not even perform as well as your STOCK spring!

The point is that a genuine part is engineered, designed, and manufactured a specific way, to perform as it was intended and tested.

A knockoff part is slapped together out of materials designed to look like the real thing, but with no design or testing, or regard to actual result.

[Andrews Chalmers]

In addition - if the stock spring fails, Nissan will be covered by statutory, express and implied warranties of merchantability.

The counterfeit? Good luck tracking them down.