Mine are 10 years old and they don’t look like that
My 20 year old honda doesn’t look that bad
Them new pors he like to rust way way more than the old ones. I work mostly on oldtimer porsches and sometimes newer ones. Them new ones realy rust more than the old.
Driven hard and put away wet 🤣
You just gotta put a bit of elbow grease in and clean em up but they’re still better then the cheesy plastic sheathed ones that split and fragment off when your trying to take a set off to put winters on vice versa
Every Mercedes I’ve owned and seen in the road does this too. “That German Steel”
Do you use washing detergents that contain chlorides? That could cause this.
I’ve seen oem and replacements do this.
An OEM won’t do this unless it was cleaned with super aggressive cleaning agents for a long period of time.
I have yet to see something like that happen on a 30+ yo cars, this is ridiculous
Likely down to cleaning chemical sprays or however OP is maintaining the vehicle.
Never had any of my cars do this. The lugs on my 12 year old 997 were pristine. I would be very surprised if these are OEM, esp since this looks to be a fairly modern car.
The lugs on my 1986 look better than this.
Remove, sand, paint
I’ve tried this before with engine enamel paint (heat resistant + more durable than regular paint). It just chips off immediately when you put the bolts back on.
I ended up replacing my Porsche OEM bolts with titanium ones after 3 wasted weeks of repeated sand, clean, paint, repeat.
People. Those are OEM with a seriously not concerned owner. These bolts use bolt caps to prevent that from happening, just like Audis, VW, Lambo and I think Bugatti.
You need to make sure to take them off and put them back in whenever you do any type of service that require taking off the wheels.
Maybe the dude just had bad luck, didn’t remember to put the caps back on or went to a place where they did not do that for him.
In all cases: Shame.
Yuck.
I don’t think this should happen either.
My 1998 Mitsubishi gallant didn’t have this problem. Let me know if you’d like to trade.
That’s ridiculous if these are OEM.
I’ve had some cheap cars over the years and have never had this happen to any lug.