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Post by Oldsnut on Apr 15, 2007 15:50:35 GMT -6
Now that it is warm out I am able to roll down my window and what do I hear, click click click but it's kinda tinny sounding. It turns out that the chrome on the inside of my wheel are delaminating from the wheel, pix below. This is the best looking of the 4 wheels.  Are the rest of you 2nd genr's having this problem with your wheels? After a couple of hours of scraping and grinding the problem is solved, but I feel like my wheels are disintigrating beneath me.  I also came across this when pulling the tire off to remove all the loose chrome.  Here is the cover it is is on. I find this very funny.  |
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Post by aaaauroraaaa on Apr 15, 2007 16:26:08 GMT -6
The insides of the chrome 2nd gen wheels I'm putting on this month looked exactly like that. I took off all that flying chrome with a razor, sanded out the corrosion underneath it, and took degreaser and fine steel wool to the rest of the inside of the wheel. Then I sprayed the inside parts where the chrome came off with chrome metallic rustoleum. Any honestly where the brake disc is, you can't even see the blemishes unless you look insanely close.
How do the rest of the front of the wheels look?
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Post by Oldsnut on Apr 15, 2007 16:33:21 GMT -6
The outside part looks like new!
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Post by Custom88 on Apr 15, 2007 20:10:16 GMT -6
My chrome wheels are doing this also. Mine are pealing on the outside, too, unfortunately though. |
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Post by Oldsnut on Apr 15, 2007 20:16:09 GMT -6
If this a a common problem with our wheels, should we bring this up to GM? This sucks!
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Post by macadamiaman on Apr 15, 2007 20:27:16 GMT -6
If this a a common problem with our wheels, should we bring this up to GM? This sucks! They'd blame things like weather, poor maintenance, not garaging the Aurora, driving on bad days, etc etc etc. It's never their fault (according to their lawyers) |
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Post by aaaauroraaaa on Apr 16, 2007 2:41:24 GMT -6
I actually do not blame this on GM until I see peeling on the outside(not the inside... I could care less if the inside rotted at all) from a car that had an owner that washed/waxed their wheels at every single 1,000 mile interval from when the car was new. I would expect people that bought $800 chrome wheels as an option to at least know how to take care of them.
Now that I think of it, I don't remember many camry's, accords, or corolla's, subaru's, or hyundai's, or anything of the sort with chrome wheels from the factory in the 90's thru 2005 to compare to anyway.
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Post by macadamiaman on Apr 16, 2007 8:58:40 GMT -6
Why do you mention those four random asian car brands?? There are PLENTY of chrome wheels from countless car companies in the past 20 years.
A lot of other car companies triple-plate the wheels with chrome (i.e.. Jaguar), and even 15-year-old chrome wheels are better than perfect condition..
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Post by centennialman on Apr 16, 2007 13:42:40 GMT -6
Now that it is warm out I am able to roll down my window and what do I hear, click click click but it's kinda tinny sounding. It turns out that the chrome on the inside of my wheel are delaminating from the wheel, pix below. This is the best looking of the 4 wheels. Was the ticking sound caused by the delamination? I have a similar sound, but it's for sure coming from the center cap on the LR wheel; one of the prongs is broken and the cap is loose. Another item on the list of things to fix / replace. |
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Post by Oldsnut on Apr 16, 2007 16:11:32 GMT -6
Oh yea, sounded like tin foil flapping in the wind. It was quite loud and annoying.
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Post by human on Apr 17, 2007 14:26:49 GMT -6
Yeah, shortly before my dad retired from GM (he was a district sales mgr. for Olds) he was sent to a seminar titled "Winning at Arbitration" that was essentially about sticking it to the customer. The prevailing attitude at GM at that time (late '80s and early '90s) was that they'd rather pay for lawyers than pay for a repair, even if the lawyers cost more than the repair. No sign that anything's changed since then. If this a a common problem with our wheels, should we bring this up to GM? This sucks! They'd blame things like weather, poor maintenance, not garaging the Aurora, driving on bad days, etc etc etc. It's never their fault (according to their lawyers) |
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Post by macadamiaman on Apr 17, 2007 17:37:56 GMT -6
This is the way it is in most businesses, at least in America. The reason being is because if they pay for the repair, they create a precedent for other customers to then follow suit. Then, the future repair cost over time exceeds the lawyer cost. Furthermore, it is also a way of GM saying "I'm right, you're wrong" - so their image wouldn't be tarnished, at least publicly.
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Post by Aurora40 on Apr 18, 2007 7:14:16 GMT -6
Man, that sucks... From what I hear most of those eBay aftermarket chromed ones also fail. It's out of warranty so I really doubt you'd get GM to pay for it. I guess just hope it doesn't spread to the front of the wheel?  |
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Post by latenight72 on Apr 20, 2007 19:33:59 GMT -6
That's what you guys get for living in the north...  |
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Post by Oldsnut on Apr 20, 2007 22:22:50 GMT -6
Dam it! Get that guest room ready then. When should we leave for Florida? |
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