Chrome Plating Rims

[DubV]

Does anyone know where I get a set of stock rims chrome plated or dipped?

 

[RiceRocketDSM02]

You can find anything you need on EBAY...

 

[Sinner]

Look up plating services in your phone book. It is going to cost you a bunch, the last time I got a quote for plating some rims they wanted around $250 a rim.

 

[a_scobel]

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[DubV]

Ouch...

 

[Defiant]

Does anyone know where I get a set of stock rims chrome plated or dipped?

It's not a "dipping" process. It's cleaning, polishing, and then three plating procedures (nickle, copper, and finally chrome, with polishing between each step). Which is why it costs so much.

Explanations to why they look like crap after all that aren't so readily available.

 

[DubV]

The nickel, copper, and chrome are applied by dipping the rim into a vat containing each element.

"They are wired to copper hangers, dipped into two vats of cleaner/degreasers, and then rinsed off before going for a dip in a copper-plating vat. The copper allows the plating metals to stick to the underlying metals. The next vat contains a nickel bath, and the parts will sit for a while to build up thickness. Then the parts go for a swim in a water wash before a dip in the chrome vat. The water wash prevents the nickel from contaminating the chrome bath. After drying, the newly chromed parts are polished to a bright finish."

http://www.valvoline.com/carcare/articleviewer.asp?pg=res20040601cp&cccid=5&scccid=2

This is besides the point. I was just asking where I could get my rims done.

 

[bhop]

Or, you could try to find a set of the factory chrome rims that were available on GS's and GS-T's for sale somewhere.

 

[DubV]

I just got the 2006 eclipse 18" wheels and wanted to chrome em. I can't find an exchange so I would have to take or ship them somewhere. I heard that Mitsubishi is gonna make a chrome version when they launch the spyder next year but who knows.

 

[Defiant]

The nickel, copper, and chrome are applied by dipping the rim into a vat containing each element.

They may have left out the part about it being electroplating.
Dipping won't do shit.

 

[knighteclipse1]

The nickel, copper, and chrome are applied by dipping the rim into a vat containing each element.

"They are wired to copper hangers, dipped into two vats of cleaner/degreasers, and then rinsed off before going for a dip in a copper-plating vat. The copper allows the plating metals to stick to the underlying metals. The next vat contains a nickel bath, and the parts will sit for a while to build up thickness. Then the parts go for a swim in a water wash before a dip in the chrome vat. The water wash prevents the nickel from contaminating the chrome bath. After drying, the newly chromed parts are polished to a bright finish."

http://www.valvoline.com/carcare/articleviewer.asp?pg=res20040601cp&cccid=5&scccid=2

This is besides the point. I was just asking where I could get my rims done.

oh no, correcting Defiant? You have got balls man!! Your gonna feel the wrath of the DSM God!!

 

[DubV]

...is my DSM gonna blow up now? I was just conveying my knowledge on the issue.

 

[chicagoboostin]

i do elecroplating... chrome sucks, its going to be harder and harder to use chrome because it leaves so much toxic BS, and its costs alot to dispose of it...anyway its going be a hellof alot of money to do rims (let alone 18's) and youd be better off actually buying rims that are already chromed out. If a customer came here and wanted rims chrome i wouldnt even quote him.. id feel asif im ripping him off.