{"id":6255,"date":"2015-10-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2015-10-01T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T10:00:00","slug":"pet-peeve-wheel-corrosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/01\/pet-peeve-wheel-corrosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Peeve: Wheel Corrosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing I hate to find when working on cars, it&#8217;s wheel and hub corrosion. Aluminum and steel have this thing where if they touch, they get all corroded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_10_01_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-81 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_10_01_02.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"2015_10_01_02\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_10_01_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_10_01_01.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"2015_10_01_01\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->An example of what I&#8217;m talking about. That white and black stuff around the hub and on the back of the wheel is corrosion.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with corrosion is that when you put the wheel back on and tighten the lug nuts, it may not seat correctly, and cause a vibration when driving. I&#8217;ve had two customers come back complaining of vibration after I&#8217;ve worked on their car, so now every time there&#8217;s noticeable corrosion, I&#8217;ll clean it off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_10_01_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-82 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_10_01_03.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"2015_10_01_03\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cleaning them isn&#8217;t hard, it just takes a die grinder and a dust mask, but it takes several minutes if there&#8217;s a lot of corrosion, and time is really money in this business. But when it comes down it, to preventing comebacks, I think it&#8217;s worth the extra time to prevent having to do it later without being paid because the customer had a problem.<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing I hate to find when working on cars, it&#8217;s wheel and hub corrosion. Aluminum and steel have this thing where if they touch, they get all corroded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-wheels-tires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}