Rusting already on wheel hub nut

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Rusting already on wheel hub nut

Post by koruki » Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:20 am

Had the car in the tyre shop and couldn't help by notice how bad the rust was for a 10 month old car. I've never noticed this on the other cars, just wanted to share to see if others have the same and if its anything to be concerned about?

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Re: Rusting already on wheel hub nut

Post by Shinobi675 » Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:38 am

I'm a really lazy person... It takes a lot to get me to do anything!

I'd be discussing the warranty replacement of those. That's not acceptable in my book.
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Re: Rusting already on wheel hub nut

Post by rspj » Mon Jan 11, 2016 5:49 pm

I put my winter wheels on yesterday got same problem could get wheels off had to use hammer never had this with other wheels before like you say covered in rust om all 4
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Re: Rusting already on wheel hub nut

Post by Brooner » Tue Jan 12, 2016 3:34 pm

a good clean with a wire brush and a liberal coating of copper coat will sort this out i have the same with my RS4 must be the exposure to all the rain
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Re: Rusting already on wheel hub nut

Post by koruki » Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:33 pm

Yeah, I went to Audi yesterday and they said it was normal, even showed me a bunch of other new cars with the same. They said it was safe and it would just rust again if they cleaned it off.
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