I'm not a huge fan either of the all black wheels but if I had them they would have to be the gloss black. The satin and matte reminds me of old steel wheels. Chrome looks good on certain cars but ya cant over do it, now I do have chrome wheels on my mustang and I think its looks good. My dads old 67 c10 had chrome rimes at on point when it was red but after the color changed to yellow we went polished cause the chrome looked out of place, guessin cause the yellow was so bright and the chrome works better on "darker" colors like my grabber orange. My dark blue s10 had polished wheels on it but I wished they made them in chrome cause to me they always looked dull no matter how much they were polished up.
And I wasnt disagreeing, our purposes were just different lol Beat up chrome wheels do look bad, but if you cant decide on the color of the wheel you like, then you could always go back to chrome if you changed your mind.
Chrome can always be made black!I'm on the fence. I have chrome now and I'm tired of it. Getting new wheels but can't make up my mind on black, graphite, machines, chrome. They all look good if done right
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High dollar fancy wheels but you cannot even see the style. It's just a black blob now.
Chrome wheels are really fantastic when new, however once their exposed to stone chips, you pretty much have to get them re-chromed/re-finished just in order to get rid of the pit marks..
IMO, I would still think the pit marks would still be noticeable even after having them plasti-dipped, as the chip marks will still be there
Personally IMHO, powder coating would offer the best overall resistance and protection from stone chipping/pitting..
I'd like to know where you live or what you do to chip up chrome wheels that way. I've owned a bunch of different chrome, painted and polished wheels and have never had chip marks at least not more than 1 or two per set of wheels. And they were very small usually. Even my racing wheels don't get enough damage to look bad at 10'.
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Pittsburgh, PA, also known as Pot hole capital of the world lol. All j/k aside we have some of the worst road conditions in the U.S, as there's always road construction projects going on practically everywhere on the main roads and no matter how careful you are, you still end up getting stone chips anyhow..
And even when attempting to take an alternative route by taking the back roads, they're just as bad if not even worse.. What really sucks about these road construction projects more than anything else, is they do a half ass job by just throwing on a few patches here and there and then 6 months later go through the same process all over again.. So you just can't win no matter what.. At any rate, my next step is to look into having my current machined aluminum wheels powder coated which will hopefully be the solution I'm looking for
At least they hide the dust and dirt. I've thought about going with black rims on my truck just for ease of maintenance. But the polished looks really good.
And my rims get plenty of dust on them. I'm just OCD about keeping them clean.