Wheel Chroming vs. Polishing

[Dirty Octopus™]

Chrome won't get you home but it will get you laid.

Ever tried to polish steel? It will rust in 8 hours with our humidity. For that shiny look aluminum is polished and steel is chromed. Chrome is cheaper, just like the stuff that's its covering because it takes alot less labor...it's a liquid and the metal is dipped in it then it hardens just like hard shell syrup on ice cream. Normally the metal is etched and coated with nickel before recieving the shiney final look. Chrome is just adding weight to something that is heavy to begin with while polishing doesn't add weight, it just makes it shiney and stuff.

you're my idol dood
so the BBS RS (an aluminum wheel im to assume) should be polished? does it make any sense to chrome aluminum wheel? has that been done?

[speedminded]

you're my idol dood
so the BBS RS (an aluminum wheel im to assume) should be polished? does it make any sense to chrome aluminum wheel? has that been done?

lol. Polish no questions asked, it's completely pointless to chrome aluminum.

Anything can be chromed/electroplated, look at most of the plastic grills on cars & trucks in the last 10-20 years or even hub caps...it's plastic that's been etched for texture, coated with nickel, then the chrome is applied. Had a guy in Oregon offer to do all the plastic on my Triumph Daytona years ago for free BUT shipping all the parts to him and back was gonna cost more than I wanted to spend then i would have to figure out how to get the tank to match other than painting it black.

As for the BBS wheel, you can have it media blasted to clean it up...just like sand blasting but they use a differant medium: could be anything from glass beads to crushed up walnut shells depending on the condition and the look desired.

[Dirty Octopus™]

lol. Polish no questions asked, it's completely pointless to chrome aluminum.

Anything can be chromed/electroplated, look at most of the plastic grills on cars & trucks in the last 10-20 years or even hub caps...it's plastic that's been etched for texture, coated with nickel, then the chrome is applied. Had a guy in Oregon offer to do all the plastic on my Triumph Daytona years ago for free BUT shipping all the parts to him and back was gonna cost more than I wanted to spend then i would have to figure out how to get the tank to match other than painting it black.

As for the BBS wheel, you can have it media blasted to clean it up...just like sand blasting but they use a differant medium: could be anything from glass beads to crushed up walnut shells depending on the condition and the look desired.

for shizzles! ima look into that ASAP!

Polished RS's...

that has a nice ring to it
hell a nice look to it too!

[KPowerEP3]

for shizzles! ima look into that ASAP!

Polished RS's...

that has a nice ring to it
hell a nice look to it too!

I can't sleep, so I figured I'd throw in my 2 cents. Basically, I think the RS would look HOT polished, but talk about labor intensive.