To Weber's credit they are sending me a new cookbox and flavorizer bars. (I had called about the flavorizer bars before and was told to wait). I get that rust happens on the flavorizer bars but this wasn't just surface rust. This was rust flaking off like on an 80's sedan floorboard.
Bellyaching? I am not complaining about minor problems here, these are pretty substantial and this isn't just surface rust. Perhaps my expectations were too high. My dad had a weber grill that made four trips across the ocean and fared better in one of the most humid places I've ever been...
Honestly I'm not at all impressed with my Genesis 330 stainless. I purchased the NG model in 2013 used it for a year and then moved. While I was in a rental house I didn't have NG hookups and weber wouldn't sell me a conversion kit so I cleaned and polished it with noxon 7 then put it in...