Except when dirt, road, salt, and moisture get trapped under these plastic pieces...Seems to me its nice because you dont have rust to worry about from superficial rock chips.
Except when dirt, road, salt, and moisture get trapped under these plastic pieces...Seems to me its nice because you dont have rust to worry about from superficial rock chips.
They're ugly...It was said many decades ago that the future is in plastics. Plastic is misunderstood quite a bit too. The plastic used to make a child’s toy is not the same as the plastic used to make intake manifolds or trim pieces on automobiles.
The benefits are great. Less weight, less maintenance and corrosion, better impact resistance, what’s not to like?
Plastic trim doesn't prevent rust, it just causes it to start differently. Instead of chips in the paint causing rust, the plastic trim causes rust by trapping in dirt, road salt, and moisture....Yea, the good old days when cars rusted in just a few years.
Plastic body cladding would have prevented rocks from chipping the paint and eventually to that rust.
I'll have one of these any day.ANY plastic trim around the wheel wells is ugly and unnecessary.
Trapped dirt, road salt, and moisture won't cause any rust unless there is bare metal....caused by....rock chips. And any properly designed panel has drain channels to prevent trapping anything.Plastic trim doesn't prevent rust, it just causes it to start differently. Instead of chips in the paint causing rust, the plastic trim causes rust by trapping in dirt, road salt, and moisture....
Sold for cheap and easy install to boot. Fellow I worked with had to pull the front clip to change head lights on his Avalanche.I wished they still made headlights out of glass, seeing the plastic polycarbonate ones cloud up, distort and limit the light output is disheartening when you are paying $50K plus for these vehicles.
I suppose they said the same thing about candles when electric bulbs replaced them.Sold for cheap and easy install to boot. Fellow I worked with had to pull the front clip to change head lights on his Avalanche.
God ole Mr Edison.I suppose they said the same thing about candles when electric bulbs replaced them.
Yes, I suppose he WAS a God to some.God ole Mr Edison.
You can have it...it's ugly as sin...I
I'll have one of these any day.
It absolutely will, why do you think they put drain holes in doors...and the plastic trim around wheel wells has no channels for dispersing water...Trapped dirt, road salt, and moisture won't cause any rust unless there is bare metal....caused by....rock chips. And any properly designed panel has drain channels to prevent trapping anything.
I did, years ago. Wish I kept it. Yes it looks sin-isterYou can have it...it's ugly as sin...
I remember having to pay $300 each for glass headlights in a Geo Tracker. You could get them from one of two places. A Chevy/Geo dealer or a Suzuki dealer.I wished they still made headlights out of glass, seeing the plastic polycarbonate ones cloud up, distort and limit the light output is disheartening when you are paying $50K plus for these vehicles.
I can't remember seeing any early Avalance with rust in those areas when they still had those panels.
I was hoping the trend would end with the Avalanche.That's because it covers it up. Around here one day you'll slam the door hard enough and it'll fall off...
I was hoping the trend would end with the Avalanche.