I priced chrome plating the wheels and it was about the same price as polishing them.
I like the softer look of the polished alloy over the harder look of the chrome.
I found a very good polish guy who did some work on my stainless steel exhaust
on my BMW motorcycle. He did a beautiful job and was fairly inexpensive on the
work.
He told me that the wheels are indeed harder to polish. They are made by a company in
Australia that makes wheels for Ford and BMW. He had a set of Ford wheels in his shop and was in the process of stripping them. It did indeed look like a difficult job.
He told me it would cost about $250 per wheel to put a high shine on the wheels be-
cause the wheels that are painted from the factory do not have a very highly pol-
ished surface. He showed me the surface on then Ford wheels he had and they
were indeed kind of rough. The Ford wheels had the same marking on them that the
my LE wheels have so I guess what he said is true about the same company doing
the wheels for Nissan and Ford.
Now all I have to do is make up my mind if I want to spend that much money to get
the look I want. If I polish the wheels then I'll be forced to do something about the
composite step rails or they really will look out of place.
Gerald
I like the softer look of the polished alloy over the harder look of the chrome.
I found a very good polish guy who did some work on my stainless steel exhaust
on my BMW motorcycle. He did a beautiful job and was fairly inexpensive on the
work.
He told me that the wheels are indeed harder to polish. They are made by a company in
Australia that makes wheels for Ford and BMW. He had a set of Ford wheels in his shop and was in the process of stripping them. It did indeed look like a difficult job.
He told me it would cost about $250 per wheel to put a high shine on the wheels be-
cause the wheels that are painted from the factory do not have a very highly pol-
ished surface. He showed me the surface on then Ford wheels he had and they
were indeed kind of rough. The Ford wheels had the same marking on them that the
my LE wheels have so I guess what he said is true about the same company doing
the wheels for Nissan and Ford.
Now all I have to do is make up my mind if I want to spend that much money to get
the look I want. If I polish the wheels then I'll be forced to do something about the
composite step rails or they really will look out of place.
Gerald
