Look Out for Rust!

[lbspeed]

Washing my MS3 the other day and saw this. Looks to be the forming of rust under the door panel. Luckily the car is still under warranty and dealership is ordering part.

Just wanted to give u folks a heads up of possible rust issues!

 

[eg6motion]

rusting plastic eh?

looks like oxidation.

 

[Speed3Rookie]

rusting plastic eh?

looks like oxidation.

lol...(werd)

 

[714ms3]

Unless the screw underneath is rusted, and it is causing the plastic to deform.

 

[lbspeed]

Unless the screw underneath is rusted, and it is causing the plastic to deform.

that's what i initially thought, but it could be oxidation of the plastic too..

 

[jabba]

The way it's bulging in and out is weird. Looks like it warped due to molded-in stresses, but you should have seen that a long time ago.

Did you spill anything corrosive on it? Or any source of high heat near it?

 

[lbspeed]

The way it's bulging in and out is weird. Looks like it warped due to molded-in stresses, but you should have seen that a long time ago.

Did you spill anything corrosive on it? Or any source of high heat near it?

I think the glare in the photo is making it look warped. It is not warped. It just looks like wrinkled pimples...

No corrosive spill or unordinary high heat. Maybe just high heat and humidity from FL weather.

 

[imac]

maybe its an optical illusion seeing it from the angle of the pic, but i thought it was warped too. i was pretty intrigued, especially as a corrosion engineer, but im more versed in metal corrosion, not with plastic, so i'm a little confused here too.

ive never had a plastic part on any of my cars show corrosion before the metal ones. your profile shows you live in florida. do you by chance live or work close to a saltwater body? the excess salt could accelerate the elecrolytic processes, but still, 2 years seems extremely fast for something like this.

 

[lbspeed]

maybe its an optical illusion seeing it from the angle of the pic, but i thought it was warped too. i was pretty intrigued, especially as a corrosion engineer, but im more versed in metal corrosion, not with plastic, so i'm a little confused here too.

ive never had a plastic part on any of my cars show corrosion before the metal ones. your profile shows you live in florida. do you by chance live or work close to a saltwater body? the excess salt could accelerate the elecrolytic processes, but still, 2 years seems extremely fast for something like this.

yes i know the pic is not the best, but when i took the picture straight on it did not show.

I live and work ~60 miles from the closest beach.

 

[imac]

I live and work ~60 miles from the closest beach.

yea, so that shouldn't really be an issue. i hope this is just an outlier and doesn't start becoming a recurring theme, for you or anyone else.

 

[ottawaP5]

I've got a rust bubble forming on the hood. Luckily it'll get repainted under warranty. I can just imagine what this car will look like in 3 years lol.

 

[lbspeed]

yea, so that shouldn't really be an issue. i hope this is just an outlier and doesn't start becoming a recurring theme, for you or anyone else.

Yea me either... thanks for your concern imac

I've got a rust bubble forming on the hood. Luckily it'll get repainted under warranty. I can just imagine what this car will look like in 3 years lol.

on the hood (eek2) well our 5 yr rust warranty is definitely coming in useful

 

[squidmotion]

Y...... well our 5 yr rust warranty is definitely coming in useful

good luck making claims on that.... well, at least we don't own nissans. 7 year rust out marketing tool.


why do you guys think this piece is plastic? looks like a piece of aluminum with a heavy duty paint on my car, or a heat shrinked plastic put right over the metal of the door frame. you can see where it overlaps near the corners. and i knicked a tiny bit of of it (had my keys in my hand, won't do that again) and looks like aluminum or steel to me.

if that is rust dimpling up the coating (which it looks like to me). then i'm curious to how they fix it. i doubt this would be a common problem, unless there is something underneath prone to rust, (screw, rivet, spot weld, etc)... more than like a drop of factory worker sweat (after all, he/she would be using the heat gun to shrink it on) then encased in plastic on one side, bare metal on the other....

just a theory.

 

[bluelion]

maybe it was sabotaged by one of those sti's across the street.....hahahah

 

[Sport6]

I haven't really paid attention on this car, but on my mazda6 this piece was vinyl wrapped piece of steel that actually did rush under the vinyl and started to peel. Some people used to peel them completely off because they were body colored under the vinyl..

 

[lbspeed]

maybe it was sabotaged by one of those sti's across the street.....hahahah

lol (lol2) Naw they wouldn't do that!