wheel lip chroming

[marcusd]

ok quite fancy the balck wheel with chromed lip, but........ as i refurbed my 205 gti alloys one wheel had a filler on the lip fairly visable so can that still be chromed.
and no i don;t wanna just spray it silver.

[Lewis]

Chroming requires a bare metal surface so filler will have to be removed i presume

[marcusd]

thats what i thought shame i well liked the look of them

[Lewis]

thats what i thought shame i well liked the look of them

Might be salvagable if the lip damage isnt too great. Contact a wheel specialist and ask for their opinion.

[Tom5190]

are you sure you need pure metal? im sure some plastic's can be chromed in a different way

[newqs36]

specialist wheel refurbers can offer a mirror finish paint. cheaper and looks the same.

[wadoryu]

you can acutally buy chrome paint mate and its not half bad if it all goes tits up

[AJ-K]

if you get it diamond polished it costs a bomb to refurb (chrome look)

i scuffed a wheel on my old car and i was getting £120 quotes from everywhere

[Lewis]

You can get chrome finish plastic paint but i doubt its made for wheels. It would come off shurely.

[samfenna]

you may be able to get it filled by abrazer, with brass or something similar, like they do to bike frames etc...