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10-06-2022, 11:39 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Dave,
Is that a new tow vehicle in your pictures or the Highlander??
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Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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10-06-2022, 12:40 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,259
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Highlander
Quote:
Originally Posted by cpaharley2008
Dave,
Is that a new tow vehicle in your pictures or the Highlander??
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Nope Jim it’s the 2018 Highlander now with 105,000 miles. Love the 8 speed transmission and the shiftable feature. I tow in 6 and the easier I take it the better my milage. Staying off the Interstates when we can.
Hauling windfall and rotten apples up to the little timber above us. Deer are having an apple smorgasbord.
Iowa Dave
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10-07-2022, 01:23 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Sudbury, Ontario
Trailer: 2019 5.0 TA
Posts: 349
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We also have the aluminum wheels on our 2019 5.0; After 3 years they still look pretty good but the lugs are all rusting and pitted. Living in Ontario, the trailer does see some salty roads on its way south and back north, I do try to rinse them once we get where we're going.
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10-07-2022, 02:07 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Eureka, California
Trailer: 2019 19' Escape
Posts: 6
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We have the same lug nut corrosion. They really don't like coastal northern California. The wheels are still looking pretty good. (2019 19'). Not sure, is there a dissimilar metal corrosion issue with AL wheels and steel nuts?
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10-10-2022, 11:04 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Seattle, Washington
Trailer: 2021 21NE
Posts: 3
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I live in the Seattle area but miles from any salt water.
Picked up rig in Dec 21, all 20 lug nuts were rusted within months; and all the plastic painted axle covers were shedding their silver paint.
My 1994 F150 has the same lug nuts since it was new and they have no rust.
Things just aren't built as well as they used to be....
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10-11-2022, 03:14 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
Trailer: 2015 19 "Past Tents", 2021 F150 Lariat 2.7L EB
Posts: 10,222
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Quote:
Originally Posted by C57D
Things just aren't built as well as they used to be....
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Or apparently as high a quality as Escape used to supply. My aluminum wheels are almost 8 years old and both the wheels and lugs still look like new.
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10-11-2022, 03:29 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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I ran into one of the people who bought one of my early Escapes, it still looked new also....
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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10-13-2022, 08:05 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ..., New Mexico
Trailer: 2013 Esc19/'14 Silvrado
Posts: 4,193
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My powder coated 2013 white steel wheels still look beautiful to me.
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"A billion here, a billion there...add it all up and before you know it you're talking real money." Everett Dirkson
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10-14-2022, 12:00 AM
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Pugetopolis, Washington
Trailer: 2020 Escape 21NE
Posts: 64
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dstreight
Ditto @CharlesinGA. I installed Sendel aluminum wheels on our 15A 3+ years ago and they are still in perfect condition. Got them from etrailer.com... https://www.etrailer.com/Boat-Traile...l/AM22653.html
Having said that, if you live in a community that drops salt on the roads and it repeatedly contacts wheels...
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Those are nice-looking wheels. I'll consider them when I have to replace my tires.
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10-14-2022, 11:44 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2021
Location: 50 miles S of Atlanta, Georgia
Trailer: 2008 BigfootRV 25B21RB
Posts: 289
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Meandering Minstrel
Those are nice-looking wheels. I'll consider them when I have to replace my tires.
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RecStuff is a good source for the wheels, cheaper than Etrailer most likely (Etrailer tends to be high on virtually everything including the shipping costs) and RecStuff has a good selection of wheels. I prefer the Sendel but they have HiSpec and others also.
Be sure and get lugnuts that are chrome plated vs the ones with a stainless sleeve crimped over them.
https://recstuff.com/trailer-wheels/15-inch
https://recstuff.com/accessories/wheel-accessories
If you get new wheels, have the tire shop install all metal stems, this way you can install tire pressure sensors later on. Most tire shops will use stems like those designed to mount inside mounted sensors, but simply without the sensor on them.
You need a stem with an extended nut such as this...................
or this..................
As there is no way to tighten the nut if you use a stem with a short nut on it, due to being recessed in the aluminum so far.
Charles
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10-14-2022, 01:59 PM
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#31
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: SLO County, California
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21C 2019 Expedition
Posts: 5,213
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[QUOTE=CharlesinGA;432337]....If you get new wheels, have the tire shop install all metal stems, this way you can install tire pressure sensors later on.
They also have stiffer rubber ones that work well with my TST external TPMS sensors.
I did have the all metal ones a few years ago, and don't really have a preference, I just know that with the standard rubber valve stems the rubber is too soft and the pressure sensors will get knocked around and mar the surface of the rim.
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