Review on LONTAN 4502S3-18 Soft Close Heavy Duty Drawer Slides - 18 Pairs Full Extension With 100 LB Capacity For Kitchen Cabinets by Michael Shim

12/19/2022Replacement (a new pair) was received and installed. No issue noted. I am happy with the warranty response from the seller. Will update for the longevity review later.****************************I went thru pages of review and QAs on various sellers and ended up bought it from this one. 10pairs for 10 drawers. I received it on Sat. and immediately get on it for installation. The package is well packed - all 10 pairs fit in a good carton box. Each pair has individual package as well. I carefully opened each of them to inspect for the soft closing and self closing mechanism to ensure I don't waste time install a bad one that needs to be removed later. All are good at this point, however, one slide has a ball bearing pops out at the middle of installation. Wrote to the seller (Sunday). Hope to hear back from them soon.Installation is fairly easy. My cabinet has frame and has the Euro style slides and the drawer is 5/8" thick, so I have to use the old screws since the screws that come with it is a tap longer for drawer. A bit of advice is to buy one of those slide jig. They come in really handy. Once the slide jig is set, all I have to do is to double check the levelness between slides, and make sure they are in parallel. Then mark the line for the rear bracket (bought it from the same seller too). then secure the bracket. That's it. I am doing it the first time, and 9 drawers in 2 days, could have been 10 but one slide is defect.The hardest part for me was when I try to put screw to the bracket. The screw keeps dropping from my drill bit. I spent lots of time find the screw, refit screw to the drill bit and carefully extend my arm thru the cabinet to put screw in. The 23" depth cabinet is not helping in this situation either.The drawer slides are all self closing and soft closing. Slide will pull itself back in on the last inch or so of the movement when closing. For opening, some of them are a tap stiffer than others when opening, but all are pretty acceptable. Once drawer overcome the force, it will glide right out smoothly. I do, however, find that the second section of slide extender is a bit more stiff then the first - just in case you are not familiar, this full extension slide has two extender. I am hoping they will get better overtime. Now the question for me will be - how long will they last.For anyone that is considering this kind of project, I would say don't wait - just do it. You will love the soft close and self closing drawer.I will update how my warranty request goes later.