Apparently yes
This is normal. Learn to love it
All my Porsches (classics) have all had aluminum lug nuts.
Working at an Porsche dealer, never seen a Porsche with rusted OEM lug bolts. And I’ve worked on plenty of 997s, 996’s, 993’s, and even 964’s.
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That’s ridiculous if these are OEM.
I’ve had some cheap cars over the years and have never had this happen to any lug.
Never had any of my cars do this. The lugs on my 12 year old 997 were pristine. I would be very surprised if these are OEM, esp since this looks to be a fairly modern car.
The lugs on my 1986 look better than this.
Yuck.
I don’t think this should happen either.
Ford has entered the chat: “Amateurs!”
Fix it again, Tony 🚬
My 10 yr old cayenne’s lugs look normal and the car is parked outside and sees a ton of rain and snow in New England.
People. Those are OEM with a seriously not concerned owner. These bolts use bolt caps to prevent that from happening, just like Audis, VW, Lambo and I think Bugatti.
You need to make sure to take them off and put them back in whenever you do any type of service that require taking off the wheels.
Maybe the dude just had bad luck, didn’t remember to put the caps back on or went to a place where they did not do that for him.
In all cases: Shame.
I have yet to see something like that happen on a 30+ yo cars, this is ridiculous
Likely down to cleaning chemical sprays or however OP is maintaining the vehicle.
Do you use washing detergents that contain chlorides? That could cause this.
I’ve seen oem and replacements do this.
An OEM won’t do this unless it was cleaned with super aggressive cleaning agents for a long period of time.
Based on the chemical etching on the black rims… I’d say this is the result of heavy carwashing (like the tunnels) or the owner is using the wrong cleaning chemicals with super hard, mineral dense water. That doesn’t look like a basic coat of rust dust, that looks like a full on chemical reaction.
That still shouldn’t be able to strip the finish off of a fastener; shoddy coating testing or finance got barking up the wrong tree.
I’ve washed many cars and yes. Aggressive wheel cleaner in action right here. Or an aggressive alkaline overall shampoo.
Aggressive cleaners are supposed to be used rarely once every 5 or 10 washes but since they make the cleaning job so easy they are used by lazy car washers all the time. The result is corrosion of unprotected metals, trims, plastics etc.
OP, You’ll be surprised how much worse it is to wash your car at cheap or even worse ‘automatic’ washes. And how long it can stay ‘new looking’ for if you take it to retailers who know what they are doing.
I heard yesterday the Center Lug Nut on the GT3 RS if using the wrong soaps turn white and really acceptable to damage. And they cost your soul to replace.
You heard WRONG - it’s your firstborn, not your soul, silly.
This comment for the win! 🍻 Going on 12 years at a Premiere Porsche dealer and you’d be surprised how badly the wrong car washes, wheel cleaners, and God forbid tire shine treatments that ruin the finish on wheels, calipers, lug bolts/nuts, and tire sidewall cracking.
Hell one of the largest national dealer vendors tried getting shops in our area to switch to a new version of brake cleaner, and it was literally melting the seals in the Wurth brake clean spray bottles! We also got the wrong wheel cleaner once and luckily my boss and I were there that day so we of course when WTF we gotta check if this is bad for our cars or not…tested it on a totaled car at our body shop located behind us and damn it might have been straight up acid.
Lot of those products are too harsh, especially if they advertise will remove brake dust or bugs without scrubbing or the like, then it’s usually too good to be true and gonna mess your car up either soon or long term if you keep using the bad stuff. Like how no detailer will use Armor All! 😉