🤦‍♂️ It took me 2 years of owning this jeep to notice the factory put on 2 different color wheels, and now I can't unsee it.

[red/green hawk]

Did it really fade? Easy way to tell is to take the wheel off and see what the color is on the inside of the wheel. It should be black as midnight if the outside faded.

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[Gladiatorguy]

Just some speculation. Check the build date on your vehicle, perhaps around model changeover. Assemblers on both sides of the vehicle; left doesn't know what the right is doing. Could be from 2 different model years, or maybe 2 Wrangler and 2 Gladiator. See if the part number suffix is the same. Or a bad batch from the supplier and no one noticed (or they signed off on it) and yours was the one that didn’t get matched up. Final inspection probably made the same initial mistake you made. I have seen vehicles with different, but similar color cladding on left and right. Plant guys said it was difficult to tell the difference in the plant lighting. We ended up eliminating all but grey cladding. You could see if the dealer will correct the misbuild.

 

[NC_Overland]

If they faded, you can probably get the color back with a light compound and polish. I keep a good coat of wax on my wheels to avoid damage like this. They clean up a lot easier too.

 

[DylanM]

Another good reason to rotate your tires every 5k miles. This mismatch would (should) have been noticed the first time 'round when the fronts were crossed to opposite rear corners.

 

[Blade1668]

Well if you want to drive someone with OCD crazy mix them up, add in a few silver plastic caps to the mix.

 

[MistahJ]

Another good reason to rotate your tires every 5k miles. This mismatch would (should) have been noticed the first time 'round when the fronts were crossed to opposite rear corners.

I had them rotated around 7k using the free service and I marked the tires to verify that they rotated the tires, and they didn't cross them they went front to back. And the dealership experience was so bad I decided from then on I'd just change my own oil and rotate them myself.

 

[MistahJ]

Just some speculation. Check the build date on your vehicle, perhaps around model changeover. Assemblers on both sides of the vehicle; left doesn't know what the right is doing. Could be from 2 different model years, or maybe 2 Wrangler and 2 Gladiator. See if the part number suffix is the same. Or a bad batch from the supplier and no one noticed (or they signed off on it) and yours was the one that didn’t get matched up. Final inspection probably made the same initial mistake you made. I have seen vehicles with different, but similar color cladding on left and right. Plant guys said it was difficult to tell the difference in the plant lighting. We ended up eliminating all but grey cladding. You could see if the dealer will correct the misbuild.

The build date says 8-23 so that theory might work, but I thought I read that the Gladiator was built in a different building from the Wrangler? But I don't claim to be an expert. When I rotate the tires next time I'll see if I can find a part number on the wheels to compare.

 

[MistahJ]

Well if you want to drive someone with OCD crazy mix them up, add in a few silver plastic caps to the mix.

Thanks Satan.

 

[Freems]

I’m just SHOCKED, Jeep and their QC for painting vehicles has to be worse OEM QC department on the planet.

 

[KevinC]

Did it really fade? Easy way to tell is to take the wheel off and see what the color is on the inside of the wheel. It should be black as midnight if the outside faded.

Have you looked at the inside of a Mopar wheel? They will barely have any finish, if none at all.

 

[MistahJ]

I’m just SHOCKED, Jeep and their QC for painting vehicles has to be worse OEM QC department on the planet.

 

[red/green hawk]

Have you looked at the inside of a Mopar wheel? They will barely have any finish, if none at all.

Yes, but it's still painted, dipped I believe, still should be the same color. Mine are on stock aluminum wheels. Just doesn't have clear coat on the inside.

 

[Main Line Willys]

My guess is two of the wheels were damaged in transport.
The body shop then ordered the new wheels and didn't actually look to see if they were the correct match. I am also guessing the original dealer that did the tire rotation noticed and decided to do a front back rotation and not tell you what they noticed.

 

[brsnow2585]

My guess is two of the wheels were damaged in transport.
The body shop then ordered the new wheels and didn't actually look to see if they were the correct match. I am also guessing the original dealer that did the tire rotation noticed and decided to do a front back rotation and not tell you what they noticed.

I'd bet on that too. I ordered mine and the first call I got after a couple weeks of waiting wasn't what I expected. There was some "loading issue" that made a really nasty rash on one of the fenders, they replaced it, but after this long, I think I can tell the difference between the left and right, they're aging different. Anyone else with the non-color matched fenders notice a kind of tiger stripe pattern? I'll try to get a picture when I get a wash down, been camping and quite dirty right now.

 

[bleda2002]

Neighbor has method wheels on his Tacoma, they were matte black but now with the sun and a few years are blue

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