Anyone else with a light colored JK have rust showing by the door hindges?

 

Thats primer

 

So you're saying that Jeep uses primer that's RUST colored? That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense...

 

sorry NOT!
My business is building Auto plants throughout the northeast portion of the continent including 3 D.C. (and ya jap scrap too).
All manufactures use the same paint processes with only negligable variations.
They start out with a 13 stage cleaning (phosphate) then 9 stage Ecoat(polymer electro galv.) finish cured in bake ovens.
Next are prime/base(colour)/clear coatings baked between each coat again.
I'll be at the dealer explaining this is the reason the rust coming out of the weight bearing/pivot surfaces of my rear door hinges is not just primer bleeding.
Nowhere in any plant have I seen red oxide primer being used.
My rust is not complimentary on rescue green-flashback to my blue YJ though.
Only REAL cure for exposed hinge pins I've ever found was going to stainless replacement assemblies but they always look too candy coated for my liking. Stainless parts can even become contagious spreading throughout the body.
Heck it can even lead to lowering and adding 22" chrome rims!

 

Yes. Passenger side door, center of the hinges where the top piece of the hinge (mounted on door) meets the bottom part of the hinge (mounted in door jamb). Reddish/Muddy brown staining on the silver of the lower half of the hinge. it wipes off easily so far, but won't forever. and yes, they are lubed.

First day it gets warm i am pulling them and will clean it up & re-lube them more thoroughly than i can in cold/wet/snow.

 

for those who are having rust... when did you buy your JK? Is it possible this is due to the faulty paint jobs early on in the process?

I'm very sorry to hear this.

-Mark

 

Dates are in my sig.
I dont have the paint issues around hinges & under the cowl that others have mentioned. (That i can see anyhow, my Jeep is silver and the primer is a close match in gray, it would be tough to see.)

I believe it is just the hinge pin bleeding rust stains. I really dont know what to do about it, maybe i can scare up a replacement. stainless maybe? i really dont know what is in there.

 

The end of Janurary Mark. I don't have any of the other paint issues mentioned previously in this forum. I just went a couple of weeks without washing it and noticed that is getting more and more difficult to wipe off. Like Happy said, I guess I'll just have to relube it when the weather improves. What else can you do?

 

Design/Cost issue.
Non corrosive pins and flanged synthetic pin bushings mating face to face at the hinge bracket pin forks?
Surely that would add a whole $40 to the cost of the vehicle

 

FR -

If you were being sarcastic, you've got indicate as much, because there's no way to tell with such a short answer. If not, then you've got a LOT to learn about automobiles... Sorry to get all parental on you, but if you actually believe what you wrote, then it's time to stop making "Hummer Rescue Squad" stickers and time to start learning a thing or two about vehicles...