Paint damage from off road wheels
Thread Starter
|
Drifting
Joined: Apr 2023
Posts: 25
Likes: 15
Paint damage from off road wheels
Hello everyone,
I have driven my new 255x60x20 KO2’s during the winter - some 8k km. during 3 months. I have noticed a lot of rock chips on back doors - just in front of the rear wheel arches - the painted areas as well as the plastic trim at the bottom of the doors. I asked the dealer for a good set of off road winther rated tires and this was their recommendation. I don’t have the wide fender flares and only use the small mud flaps. Have anyone had similar issues with this setup? (I am considering to ask the dealer to paint my doors and give me another set of tires free of charge..)
I have driven my new 255x60x20 KO2’s during the winter - some 8k km. during 3 months. I have noticed a lot of rock chips on back doors - just in front of the rear wheel arches - the painted areas as well as the plastic trim at the bottom of the doors. I asked the dealer for a good set of off road winther rated tires and this was their recommendation. I don’t have the wide fender flares and only use the small mud flaps. Have anyone had similar issues with this setup? (I am considering to ask the dealer to paint my doors and give me another set of tires free of charge..)
TReK
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 2,776
Likes: 1,985
From: Whidbey Island, PNW
Couple thoughts.
When I’d had my 2020 Defender X for about a year, I noticed the road rash on the rear doors as you notice. It was shockingly bad looking (worse than I’ve seen on Porsches and Teslas, which also have the same issue). I am pretty sure I posted up here about it. On mine, the actual door paint was still OK, a little bit of road rash but it was able to be polished OK for me. But the black trims on the bottom of the doors looked like garbage. So I did the following:
1) Replaced (at my own expense) all of the painted black plastic trims along the bottom of the car. JLR sells it all pre painted which was good news. It was $800-900 or so for the 6 pieces in between the doors. I installed it myself. Not too hard. It rips offf and there are a few screws on each door. The piece up front is a pain btw. The dealer would not warranty this and I did not ask them to.
2) I then had the entire car PPF’d ($5000 - ugh) at a high end PPF place so that I could take it offroad with reckless abandon: side benefit: preventing this road rash. I had them put 2 layers on the bottom black plastic part on both doors. In theory I guess I could remove the top layer of PPF when it gets thrashed but I have not and probably won’t do so.
3) I then put the small mudflaps on the car. Also noticed this helped alot with the road rash on rear doors.
Problem solved. The PPF is a little pockmarked now with 25,500 miles on the car but I’m not destroying the paintwork. I have also since added Tuffant rock sliders that have a side benefit of not allowing anything from the front tires to kick up and hit the sides of the car... )
I hope I’ll get 10 years out of the PPF.
When I’d had my 2020 Defender X for about a year, I noticed the road rash on the rear doors as you notice. It was shockingly bad looking (worse than I’ve seen on Porsches and Teslas, which also have the same issue). I am pretty sure I posted up here about it. On mine, the actual door paint was still OK, a little bit of road rash but it was able to be polished OK for me. But the black trims on the bottom of the doors looked like garbage. So I did the following:
1) Replaced (at my own expense) all of the painted black plastic trims along the bottom of the car. JLR sells it all pre painted which was good news. It was $800-900 or so for the 6 pieces in between the doors. I installed it myself. Not too hard. It rips offf and there are a few screws on each door. The piece up front is a pain btw. The dealer would not warranty this and I did not ask them to.
2) I then had the entire car PPF’d ($5000 - ugh) at a high end PPF place so that I could take it offroad with reckless abandon: side benefit: preventing this road rash. I had them put 2 layers on the bottom black plastic part on both doors. In theory I guess I could remove the top layer of PPF when it gets thrashed but I have not and probably won’t do so.
3) I then put the small mudflaps on the car. Also noticed this helped alot with the road rash on rear doors.
Problem solved. The PPF is a little pockmarked now with 25,500 miles on the car but I’m not destroying the paintwork. I have also since added Tuffant rock sliders that have a side benefit of not allowing anything from the front tires to kick up and hit the sides of the car... )
I hope I’ll get 10 years out of the PPF.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post