[esotice]

Hey guys. I have a 2018 i30 wagon that I bought in Germany in April of 2019. It is a nice car, and it came with nice rims and summer tires.

Now we are required in Germany to have a different set of winter tires, so I bought some from a guy who totaled his 2018 i30. These are normal steel wheels, not nice rims. Anyway, they leave the axles exposed, and these are starting to rust after just two weeks! It seems to me the bare metal should have been painted or something. Can anyone tell me what I should do about this?

The summer rims completely covered the bare axles, so the bare metal was shiny when I removed the nice summer rims. I knew right away something must be wrong....

Thanks in advance for any help!

Back axle:


Front axle:


With the nice summer rims:

[sundiz]

They will rust. Salty and wet roads... You could buy hubcaps, but they will still rust. You just don't see them.

[Dazzler]

They will rust. Salty and wet roads... You could buy hubcaps, but they will still rust. You just don't see them.

  

If you intend keeping the car a few years might be worth investing in some equivalent size cheap new alloys or even used ones.

I guess spraying a little fish oil or WD40 on there every so often with slow down the corrosion process.

Third option is more expensive... Move to somewhere like Australia which is drier and warmer and doesn't salt the roads.

[Surferdude]

They will rust. Salty and wet roads... You could buy hubcaps, but they will still rust. You just don't see them.

  

If you intend keeping the car a few years might be worth investing in some equivalent size cheap new alloys or even used ones.

I guess spraying a little fish oil or WD40 on there every so often with slow down the corrosion process.

Third option is more expensive... Move to somewhere like Australia which is drier and warmer and doesn't salt the roads.

Just don't park in a bushfire zone. 

[esotice]

I was thinking about buying hubcaps, but I figured they will rust anyway, just a little more slowly. That sucks! How come Hyundai doesn't paint this part or put a cap on it? My wife's Golf has painted caps, so it cannot rust.

[The Gonz]

Who said caps have to rust?

Hubcap Kia by mranni86 - Thingiverse

[mickd]

Remove wheel,
quick spray WD,
 have a beer,
 hit with drill & wire wheel,
paint (any colour you have laying around,
 have a beer,
wheel back on.
OR
just do steps 3,4 & 6 once a month and clean properly in summer 

[The Gonz]

2 beers a month? 

[tw2005]

or give it a coating, smear grease,  or this sticky stuff

[mickd]

Tectyl ,
Bought 4litres of it and did door internals & both sides of the floor on my 79HZ Premier many years ago.

[mickd]

2 beers a month? 

Okay, okay,  how about every fortnight 

[nzenigma]

They will rust. Salty and wet roads... You could buy hubcaps, but they will still rust. You just don't see them.

  

If you intend keeping the car a few years might be worth investing in some equivalent size cheap new alloys or even used ones.

I guess spraying a little fish oil or WD40 on there every so often with slow down the corrosion process.

Third option is more expensive... Move to somewhere like Australia which is drier and warmer and doesn't salt the roads.

Just don't park in a bushfire zone. 

Where is that zone?

Hawaii ? 

[esotice]

Thanks very much for the replies guys, I am going to spray it with a rust preventative coating.
Merry Christmas!