[JazzleSAURUS]

I'd like to toss out that I've been unimpressed with my Subtle Solutions experiences.

First experience: An alternator cover for my Forester XT, billed specifically for the Forester XT guys. It didn't include the necessary OEM bracket that's not present on 04-08 Forester XT's, and they expected you to reach from the underside of the car while running a bolt in from the top. I resolved this with some J-Nuts. I shouldn't of had to do this. It was pretty, but I found it's faults annoying for the cost.

Second experience: My sisters SH Forester got a 1" lift kit. Installing it I found it to not include control arm mount spacers which certainly felt necessary with that amount of droop. It naturally adds a few degrees of positive camber, which we had to resolve by fabricating our own spacers...(why we went to a subaru lift specialty place in the first place...)

Third experience: A rather well known BRZ that happens to be Lifted, (you can figure this one out...) is my close friend. We went to remove the kit to swap it out for a bigger ADF kit, (1.5",) and one of the bolts immediately broke. That's right, running a steel bolt through an aluminum spacer that's exposed to the elements is NOT the brightest idea in the world. We replace OEM hardware with less than OEM quality hardware under much greater torque loads, that now has a shelf for contaminants and road gunk to sit on, (the spacer,) and voila, you get broken bolts. The aluminum spacer should not be threaded.

I'll be removing my sisters lift kit to use drastically improved hardware, and drill out the threading in the spacer. I don't mind if the spacer is floating on top, if it's torqued appropriately it won't be an issue.

TL;DR the Subtle spacers are poorly engineered.