Steel wheels rust

[bxconst]

I have a 2008 Toyota Camry, with only 25k miles on it. A few days ago I noticed my rims have started to rust. Basically, whatever part not covered by the hubcap is rusted on all 4 wheels.

I went to my dealer and he submitted a claim but Toyota is not going to fix it for me.

I was looking at the accessory alloy rims bellow:

http://parts.toyotaofnashua.com/deta...A-B642E12AD50B

Does anybody know if there is any difference in quality between an OEM rim and the accessory Toyota rim above ? I am a bit surprised that the accessory rim is less then half the price of the the OEM rim.

P.S. This really seems to be a wide spread issue. Since this happened to me, I started to pay attention and I noticed a lot of gen. 6 Camry with rusted steel rims. I can't believe Toyota is not acknowledging this as being a quality issue on their part.

[workerant]

pic? I want to see.

[molson.david]

for less than half price of new wheels, even aftermarket once, I bet you can get OEM used in great condition.
at least in US set of OEM wheels cost 300-400, with new tires $7-800.

look around, not only toyota wheels got rust:
I'm in TX, we snow and salt for 4-5 weeks a year, but still all cars got rust on still rims.
if you want to keep rust away, you need to clean rims regularly.
same with alloys: if you will not care about them, you'll see oxidation on dings and scratches in couple years for sure.

[bxconst]

I am washing my car after every snow fall in the winter, that is why I was so intrigued by this rusting. The salt does not stay on my rims for more then 1 day.

I also have an Accord, 9 years old ... and the steel wheels are looking better then in my 3 years old Camry. And they are driven in the same conditions.

[BlackCam09]

i had the same problem with my oem steel wheels, all 4 rusted where the hubcaps didn't cover. So i bought some momo 16" alloy wheels off discount tire direct and they look like the OEM wheels too which is why i chose them. I paid like 350 shipped for them without tires.

[loubapache]

BlackCam09: These wheels look nice.

I could not tell from the picture. What kind of center caps do you have on them? Will the Toyota cap fit them?

Thanks,

[Billiam]

Originally Posted by BlackCam09

Very classy looking.

[BlackCam09]

thanks guy, my car is also dropped on h&r springs. I just kept the momo center cap i didn't feel like getting the toyota center caps it doesn't really bother me and i don't know if the toyota center cap will fit these i didn't bother looking into them. lol

where i got the wheels from:

http://www.discounttiredirect.com/di...=Car%2FMinivan

i don't know if they are still available or not i tried to search with putting my 09 camry in it and those wheels didn't come up as one of the options.

[loubapache]

Thanks, BlackCam09.

You are right that these wheels do not come up when you search by car but the wheels are there. As a matter of fact, their eBay store says these wheels do not fit the 2011 Camry but will fit 2010. Right. Must be a database problem.

Did you transfer your TPMS sensors to these wheels. I saw these wheels come with free lug nuts.

[BlackCam09]

yeah i don't know why its not showing up, i bought them i think back in march few months ago. yeah i had the tpms transfered over. They come with free lug nuts and hubcentric rings with the wheel installation kit. I also got the tpms replacement kit thing but when i took it to the shop they didn't use it and just reused the old ones. I also just used my old tires because i just had them replaced a few months ago so their basically like new and all said and done i paid like 85 dollars to have them mounted and balanced and put on at a shop.

[bxconst]

Here is a picture of my steel rims:



The MOMO rims indeed look nice. And the price is good also. I will look into replacing the MOMO center cap with a Toyota one.

Somehow I still prefer to stay with some Toyota rims. Nobody has any experience with the Toyota accessory wheels ?

[BlackCam09]

^^ yup thats exactly what mine looked like, i tried using rust remover and was going to repaint the steel wheels but decided not too. Whatever the hubcaps didn't cover it was rusted.

[muckdawg24]

Originally Posted by BlackCam09

i had the same problem with my oem steel wheels, all 4 rusted where the hubcaps didn't cover. So i bought some momo 16" alloy wheels off discount tire direct and they look like the OEM wheels too which is why i chose them. I paid like 350 shipped for them without tires.

Can you get those in 17s?

[boonkai]

same as mine, my steel wheels got rusted as well, what i did is i just took off the cover, then sand paper the rusted area and simply repaint it with black paint.
i know it gonna rust again, so whenever it rust, i jsut paint it again.. it cost me too much to get a new set of rims.

[boonkai]