This brings us to what makes ODS Performance bolts different and what advantages our bolts offer. ODS Performance bolt seats are hard anodized providing a thick oxide layer that acts as a barrier thereby mitigating the galvanic action between the different materials. Bolts that utilize titanium seats will damage your expensive wheels. The time this takes to occur depends a lot on your environment. It can occur very quickly in salty and/or humid climates. As mentioned earlier, the main advantage of titanium is its weight. So why then would a wheel bolt manufacturer use a titanium seat that is heavier than even the factory aluminum seat, and damaging to your wheels? Either out of lazy engineering or simply not knowing another way. That is not how ODS Performance operates. There is no reason to make a part if we can not improve upon it. We spent the time to come up with a manufacturing process that allows the seat and bolt to be made from different materials utilizing different process then combine them to make a superior assembly. We combine the high strength titanium bolt with a hard anodized 7075 aluminum seat. 7075 aluminum is a very strong and light material. Perfect for this application, and using it saves nearly 40% of the weight over a titanium seat. ODS Performance only offers bolts with rolled threads which are stronger due to compressing the material instead of cutting it to form the threads. This provides a smoother better feeling thread which torques more consistently.  Our wheel bolts also incorporate a specially designed transition at the head that increases fatigue life of the bolt. ODS Performance bolts take advantage of a shorter bolt seat so that the bolt head doesn’t stick out of the wheels as far as the factory bolt and most aftermarket bolts do. This not only looks better, but saves even more weight due to having an overall shorter assembly, even if the difference is very small. It is these details that matter.