Another CO badlands. Ours is 2 months old and 2k miles in. Zero complaints. You mention steering, this is a offroad biased vehicle. Even in sport it is never going to drive car like.
They drive even better with bigger rubber on them. Add a lift and some 70 series sidewall tires on it. Like...
If this holds water.... our BL is a one year color and a Fuhking bad ass one at that. My money the rarest colors are the Kodiak and now Bronze Smoke Metallic.
Ours does it when they car has just been washed. But who really cares? Do you spend a lot of time driving backwards? Find better things to have issue with people.
Bigger tires is number 1 on ours. I also bought the screen protector. Got mine on Amazon for like $11 bucks.
And decals for the white lettering. Went olive on ours.
Next is 70s style side stripping. We are thinking 3 tone with olive white and the badlands badge color of orange.
I concur with @Meanderthal on this. Also $1000 bucks? Nope. I would personally take my stockers to our local wheel powder coater folks. Have them done black in any sheen you like for $400 bucks. I would do a satin powder coat myself. But to each their own.