Anybody experience this? The passenger side trim piece above the window appears to have a coating or something missing. There is a bluish orange hue that looks like a flame has been taken to it. Have only had the car a week and noticed it the other day. Washed it to see if anything changed or I noticed anything else coming off, but didn't see a difference. Driver side looks perfectly normal.
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Black Door Trim
- Thread starter dgoodlan
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What 24 hour window are you talking about?
Also, this is “in spec” for Tesla. Use some WD-40 if it bothers you.
Soul Surfer
Cancervivor, tech geek & musician
Hard water stains tend to do that to the softer surfaces. WD-40 is very good. Just don’t use it too often. There are other car detailing product which should be more “surface friendly”.
All,
The black window and door trim on my two-year old Model Y started doing that all over a few months ago.
It looks to me like the oily, iridescent film that one sees on substandard or recycled rubber or plastic products from China as they decompose our outgas.
I've never washed it with anything harsh or abrasive at all. The vehicle isn't garaged, so there has been almost two years of sun exposure.
I think this is from the trim and/or whatever paint they use on it (if any?) decomposing. If one wipes one's finger on it, it comes off, only to be replaced with a fresh layer of film hours or a day later. Same thing if one wipes it off with alcohol and a soft cloth....just comes back hours later or the next day.
Photos attached.
Does anyone know if the trim is metal or plastic? Painted or unpainted?
R,
BP
The black window and door trim on my two-year old Model Y started doing that all over a few months ago.
It looks to me like the oily, iridescent film that one sees on substandard or recycled rubber or plastic products from China as they decompose our outgas.
I've never washed it with anything harsh or abrasive at all. The vehicle isn't garaged, so there has been almost two years of sun exposure.
I think this is from the trim and/or whatever paint they use on it (if any?) decomposing. If one wipes one's finger on it, it comes off, only to be replaced with a fresh layer of film hours or a day later. Same thing if one wipes it off with alcohol and a soft cloth....just comes back hours later or the next day.
Photos attached.
Does anyone know if the trim is metal or plastic? Painted or unpainted?
R,
BP
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Nope, but per one response on one of these trim threads, none of the fixes folks are talking about are likely to last every long. It's starting to sound like there's a coating over the trim (which some think is anodized aluminum) that just degrades at some point.
I'm not sure about that, but it does look to me as if the trim is just degrading/decomposing a lot like cheap chinese plastic does over time, with the same oily, iridescent residue.
I got it all off with alcohol and gentle wipes and it came back within hours or days on every piece.
