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If you can't tell... I'm home today with a screwed up ankle...
Be that as it may... we used to send mag wheels off of cars out to a place in Colorado (Springs, I think).. that specializes in chroming wheels.. we would do it on an exchange basis for wheels they already had in stock (say for example 17" Maxima wheels) and it cost aproximately $100 to $150 US per wheel. This price depended on size, rarity of the wheel, and the wheel surface (from the factory) and how much polishing they had to do. The polishing part is the killer.
When we got the chrome wheels in the chrome was poor, lots of bubbles and bumps and not real shiney. After the car went through a couple of rain storms or just one snow storm with salt on the road the chrome would start to peel. After about a year they looked horrible. I think chrome is hard to apply to aluminum and the heat from the brakes didn't help....
I wouldn't mess with them after the first set I put on because it was impossible to mount a tire on them without damaging the chrome along the bead, and we have a $5500 tire machine with robot arms that will mount 40 series tires on 20" rims. At least on the cars its a loose .. loose situation. I know they look good on Trailer Queen show bike Harleys but for the money....
I know you would like to know who chromes these things but we have a couple of problems here in the States. The EPA has cracked down on the chrome platers and has put probably 75% of them out of business. Only the really big ones remain and they are getting very expensive. And they take forever... as in over a year. The second problem is bikers. When their chrome work isn't done in two weeks they show up at the platers and threaten them. You say "motorcycle" to a plater and they "show you the door". Its a very bad situation.
You probably will have much better luck looking around in Switzerland...
Tomo
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