Wish I didnt look underneath the car..

[mek]

Had a chance to do my first oil and wow where do I begin?? The oil change itself was super easy but looking around i notice a lot of...questionable things. Not sure if its normal but random rust spots every where! For a car with only 1k miles? Calcium build ups? Is the transmission casing supposed to look like that??

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[Hakmamba]

Mine is close to yours and I'm around 20K miles. in Califnoria. But if you live closer to the water or coastline i think its fine.

 

[optronix]

Eh. Looks like dirt to me.

 

[SeanIsElsewhere]

Had a chance to do my first oil and wow where do I begin?? The oil change itself was super easy but looking around i notice a lot of...questionable things. Not sure if its normal but random rust spots every where! For a car with only 1k miles? Calcium build ups? Is the transmission casing supposed to look like that??

Live near the ocean?

 

[crepr12]

non issue OP enjoy your ITS

 

[mek]

Live near the ocean?

Nope. Maybe the dealership i got it from?

 

[whtciv2k]

My endlinks bolts were already rusted to shit at 18k miles.

 

[mek]

I guess my main issue is the way the transmission looks. I know its aluminum but is it suppose to have those hair line..I dont want to say cracks? Ive own plenty of cars Kia, Honda, Chevrolet, even Mitsubishi but ive never seen that before.

 

[Gremlin85]

What I've noticed is that any water and debris that drains through the hood vent runs down and blows back against the engine, dripping all that rain water with whatever else is mixed in the environment, causing that build-up and corrosion. The end links and ends of steel bolts are not treated, so they oxidized quickly. You can clean all that junk off the oil pan and transmission with an all purpose cleaner or the like with a scrub brush and it'll come off. Protect it with something like AmsOil Metal Protector or similar.

I climbed under mine while it was new and added my own coat of AmsOil Metal Protector all over the rear suspension and exposed front suspension components. I noticed the bolts for my front pipe to down pipe are already rusted to hell, so its just the quality of hardware the manufacturer used.

Its all really a non-issue right now, but oxidation builds up and could corrode the bolts more than anything.

 

[SeanIsElsewhere]

Nope. Maybe the dealership i got it from?

Didn’t even think of that; that would make sense! Looks like salt and barring driving through salted winters roads, I’d think it spent some time by the shoreside. Definately worrying if it were the norm I.e you lived by the shore but if that’s not the case, you could spend a day scrubbing and then get an undercarriage protectant applied to prevent and possible future build-up

 

[Victorofhavoc]

Those cracks are normal from casting.

Looks like typical American build quality. Look under an f150 with 5k miles on it if you want to see scary rust levels. Don't go under a 2yr old Chevy suv vehicle without goggles and a mask to protect from the rust dust.

They just don't use proper bolts with aluminum parts. They should be galvanized steel or aluminum, but they're not. So what you end up seeing is mixed metal oxidation resulting from the chassis and bolts acting like the anode and cathode in a battery.

... Just another "build quality" thing for us to gripe over where the cost of materials doesn't equate to the cost of the vehicle. I've got a ten year old q7 with over 80k miles on it that has nearly zero rust underneath and that's my tow pig/beater. It sees a lot of snow through the salt belt and 20k+ of those miles are towing 6k+ lbs so it hasn't lived an easy life. With the acura, I will never reuse a bolt. Rusty bolts are a great way to get torque way wrong.

Truthfully, it's largely surface rust, but by 50k it will start having a more real impact when you work on the car.

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