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PERRYinLA · 03-27-05, 12:08

Jason- I am only familiar with Lexus wheels, but all the chrome Lexus wheels I have seen are chromed the same way, with only the visible areas chromed, since the chroming process is so labor intensive and expensive. I am checking with my buds on www.ClubLexus.com to verify this, and so far they concur.

Being unfinished, the insides of the wheels had so much accumulated road grime/brake dust that the only way to remove it was something very abrasive. I am certain the only thing I removed was a lot of dirt.

Andrew- Is this the Duplicolor how-to?
http://www.duplicolor.com/projects/howto_wheel.html
How has yours held up?
I like the color of the surface I have now exposed so I wonder if I can skip the silver paint step and just go directly to spraying the raw alloy surface with the Duplicolor WP103 High Performance Clear Spray and be done with it!

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PERRYinLA Registered User PERRYinLA is offline Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 28	Jason- I am only familiar with Lexus wheels, but all the chrome Lexus wheels I have seen are chromed the same way, with only the visible areas chromed, since the chroming process is so labor intensive and expensive. I am checking with my buds on www.ClubLexus.com to verify this, and so far they concur. Being unfinished, the insides of the wheels had so much accumulated road grime/brake dust that the only way to remove it was something very abrasive. I am certain the only thing I removed was a lot of dirt. Andrew- Is this the Duplicolor how-to? http://www.duplicolor.com/projects/howto_wheel.html How has yours held up? I like the color of the surface I have now exposed so I wonder if I can skip the silver paint step and just go directly to spraying the raw alloy surface with the Duplicolor WP103 High Performance Clear Spray and be done with it! __________________ http://www.sounddomain.com/id/perryinla Last edited by PERRYinLA : 03-30-05 at 11:59.