Freelander 1 New wheel nuts rusty

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Fitted a new set of wheel nuts to go with new tyres and shiny wheels.
One day later they are all rusty!!!

Supplier says that I should have painted them before fitting.

What to do?!?
 
andyfreelandy said:
Fitted a new set of wheel nuts to go with new tyres and shiny wheels.
One day later they are all rusty!!!

Supplier says that I should have painted them before fitting.

What to do?!?
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I had this when I fitted my Sport rims to my SE.

The set I bought literally went rusty overnight.
They were already blackened with what I assumed was gun black, but they rusted too quickly for that.

So I cleaned them off to a clinical standard, then used engineers cold blue, to make them black (well dark blue) again. This means that they need constant oiling, or rust sets in again, but they stayed black for a longer time, actually until I sold it, as I stopped oiling the nuts, once I stopped using the car.

Painting would be a more permanent solution in hindsight.
 
This happened to me a couple of years ago, I fitted new nuts as part of a rebuild, and they went rusty PDQ, then in recent workscopes I black hammerited them, however now they've been on and offa couple of times the scoket has chipped the paint away so they are going rusty again - grrrrr!
 
Was thinking about plastic slip over covers with grease first? Damn things would always be stuck in an emergency I bet!!!
 
The way forwards is paint, or find some genuine LR nuts, which were coated in black chrome I believe.
 
Jayridium said:
Mine were genuine LR :-(
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Genuine LR wheel nuts shouldn't go rusty in a couple of years, as they were coated in a non rusting finish. The stuff for sale now which claims to be genuine isn't, as they're not coated to the same specification.
The original LR nuts only started to rust, after sockets damaged the coating.
 
Nodge68 said:
Genuine LR wheel nuts shouldn't go rusty in a couple of years, as they were coated in a non rusting finish. The stuff for sale now which claims to be genuine isn't, as they're not coated to the same specification.
The original LR nuts only started to rust, after sockets damaged the coating.
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The genuine nuts on my 20 year old Freelander haven't rusted yet.
 
andyfreelandy said:
Send one over here!! Devon and Cornwall damp will get straight on to the job for you!!!
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I'll see your Devon-Damp and raise you Caledonian tundra!

When I first started offshore, I was still in the habit of cleaning my tools with solvent to remove hydraulic oil off them before putting them back in the box, three weeks of North-Sea-Coastal air, even in a toolbox, rusted things up like three years of negligence in the central belt (between Glasgow & Edinburgh). If the air here can wreck a phosphated bahco shifter, what do you think it would do to a set of wheel nuts.
 
New nuts have gone bright orange after a week!

Have asked supplier for a return and refund.

Have found zinc coated ones with no rust claim!!

See what they do.
 
andyfreelandy said:
New nuts have gone bright orange after a week!

Have asked supplier for a return and refund.
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Probably won't do anything.

I'm sure I've read on the listings that the nuts require some form of treatment, or they will rust.

Even those that claim to be OE, which of course wouldn't go rusty in a few days.
 
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