OEM wheel clearcoat peeling - anyone else?

[lv2drive]

The clearcoat on my OEM wheels is peeling off like burned skin. 3 out of 4 of them!!!!!



These wheels have been babied. I'm the only one who has ever cleaned this vehicle, + no solvents or chem cleaners ever used on these - only water through a garden hose and a soft non-abrasive sponge.

Anyone else having this issue? If so any path to recourse with Ford helping out on refin or anything? 2019 Limited. I have ESP but out of 3/36 of course... the dealerships shrug & say there's nothing they can do.

I have to say, it's a pretty hard pill to swallow, this $75k vehicle @ 4yrs old, with wheels like this, when i take such good care of it.. It's really disappointing. I can say that NONE of my other vehicles have ever peeled like this, even after a decades + (my 23 yr old 2001 audi's wheel finish was mint when i sold it this year, and it never saw a garage in it's 240k mile long life.) I see 10 year old KIA's with better condition wheels. Come on FORD... you can do better. What is it they say - Quality is job 1? end rant.

 

[bocabimmer]

Yeah, my Limited wheels are trashed… I can’t speak to how previous owner treated them though.

 

[cruzvron]

Our 2019 expedition limited has same issue on all wheeels I wonder if I can just remove all the clear coat and paint them

 

[cruzvron]

has anyone found a solution to this?

 

[Fizzy]

has anyone found a solution to this?

There really isn't a fix for this once it starts. This happened to some aftermarket rims on a different vehicle of mine. Expensive ones too.

I found a local powdercoat shop who said for $115 (Canadian) per rim they'll strip them, repair any curb rash, and powdercoat them to any one of a thousand colours. They'll add a topcoat for a bit more too. That's what I'll be doing in the spring.

 

[BigOleFordFan]

There really isn't a fix for this once it starts. This happened to some aftermarket rims on a different vehicle of mine. Expensive ones too.

I found a local powdercoat shop who said for $115 (Canadian) per rim they'll strip them, repair any curb rash, and powdercoat them to any one of a thousand colours. They'll add a topcoat for a bit more too. That's what I'll be doing in the spring.

Hummm....~$600 (US) for refinishing your existing rims, or ~$1200 for a brand new set.....that's cutting it pretty close on the cost to value proposition.

Having said that, the bigger selection of color choices would probably make me go with the powder coating option, but ONLY if they had some truly unique colors that were not available any other way, and I would definitely get the topcoat to protect my investment

 

[Fizzy]

Hummm....~$600 (US) for refinishing your existing rims, or ~$1200 for a brand new set.....that's cutting it pretty close on the cost to value proposition.

Having said that, the bigger selection of color choices would probably make me go with the powder coating option, but ONLY if they had some truly unique colors that were not available any other way, and I would definitely get the topcoat to protect my investment

Yeah - I've been wrestling with the same dilemma myself. But the colour selection is incredible. This is the powder supplier they use: https://www.prismaticpowders.com/shop/powder-coating-colors

When you click into a swatch they have examples of rims (and other things) painted in that colour. It's like being in a candy store.

 

[BigOleFordFan]

It's like being in a candy store.

Hummm...candy store.....I'm there already, sooo yummy

I see several colors there that I could imagine on my next set of rims, so time will tell what happens.....

 

[Left Coast Geek]

going back 40 years, most of my cars with alloy wheels were European (VW, Volvo, Mercedes oh and a BMW motorcycle but that only got 90,000 miles in 10 years of riding), and the wheels were finished in Wurth Silver wheel paint. I put over 250,000 miles on several of those cars, the wheels still looked fine. I've never been religious about car cleaning, so often my front wheels are filthy with brake dust, but wash it off, the wheels looked fine. So, I do believe if I needed to repaint a silver wheel, I would look for some Wurth wheel paint (its German).


(1992 Volvo 740 Turbo wagon with about 280,000 miles circa 2014 with the optional turbo 16" wheels)

 

[Shutterbug57]

2019 Max 4x4 here. All 4 20" wheels are peeling. Fixing to move to 18" wheels, so that should clean up the issue. There is a shop here (Cincinnati) that specialized in restoring/refinishing wheels. If I were going to keep the 20" wheels on, I would probably get them refinished.

 

[Boosted]

This TSB is as close as I can get.

 

[bmk1]

Just came here to add how infuriating this is..

 

[bmk1]

This TSB is as close as I can get.

Has anybody tried this?

 

[spo0587]

Oh yeah, it's bad. I've been doing some research, Detroit Wheel and Tire specializes in this. I have reached out to them, and these are the options my my 2019 Limited. Does it seem like 2019 has this more than other year models?


https://www.detroitwheelandtire.com...144-pvd-black-chrome-hol-10144-black-pvd.html



https://www.detroitwheelandtire.com...4-pvd-bright-chrome-hol-10144-bright-pvd.html



https://www.detroitwheelandtire.com...144-gloss-black-hol-10144-bbb-gloss-a-ex.html



https://www.detroitwheelandtire.com...144-satin-black-hol-10144-bbb-satin-a-ex.html

They have a unique service, they mail you new ones, put a hold on your card, and you send yours back and they release the deposit. Pricey but they specialize in this. You could probably call around and have it done cheaper. I can't stand Ford doing this, but a lot of manufactures do it. They cheap out, faux chrome, chrome cladding, you name it. Just all around infuriating.