the beach and chrome rims

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ok i'm at a loss. we spent the week in topsail nc. on the beach. my truck was parked all week outside. my chrome rims from chevy were on. not the ones you can order as an up charge from chevy but separate ones that i ordered as summer shoes for the tahoe. today i went to wash and detail it and my rims are f'ed. all marked and oxidized it looks. i took a gentle pinnacle clay bar to them and got a lot out but they just still aren't to where i want them. they were only 2 months old. perfect before the trip.

my old 2011 chrome rims from the old tahoe survived 3 northeastern winters with that crazy salt spray we use up here now, but one week at the beach did me in?

any advice. was it ok to use the clay? i don't scratch them up at all that i know. i used prop a half gallon of lube to keep everything real slick. should i be using something else?

could the finish on these chevy rims be diff than my other?

i could use some advice. i'm ticked. i was going to put my winter rims and tires on for the trip and didn't. next year i am for sure.

jimi
 
jimim said:
•my chrome rims from chevy were on.

-not the ones you can order as an up charge from chevy

-but separate ones that i ordered as summer shoes for the tahoe.

•could the finish on these chevy rims be diff than my other?
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•That is a real possibility.
-GM put a lot of chrome-clad aluminum wheels on a bunch of their vehicles.

••I hope that the substrate...that the chrome-cladding is on...is not "plastic".

•Does the back-side view of your wheels, happen to look anything like the the back-side view of the below wheel?

IMG_2275.jpg


Bob
 
I'll post up pics tonight. Chevy said they are not polished. They said they are chrome. I asked if they. Clear coated. They didn't know.
 
FUNX725 said:
•That is a real possibility.
-GM put a lot of chrome-clad aluminum wheels on a bunch of their vehicles.

••I hope that the substrate...that the chrome-cladding is on...is not "plastic".

•Does the back-side view of your wheels, happen to look anything like the the back-side view of the below wheel?

IMG_2275.jpg


Bob
Click to expand...

here ya go. . .


image by jimim, on Flickr


IMG_8798.jpg by jimim, on Flickr
 
i don't have any pics before i cleaned them cause i was so ticked off i just worked and worked on them till i got em cleaned. i think i'm back to 95% of where i was at but still not happy about it. using clay was really hard to get em clean with. if i could use metal chrome polish next time that would be nice. i didn't want to mess them up.

jim
 
Those were when it was new. I didn't take a pic of my finished product. I will this week when I wash again.

I was just wonderng if the salt at the beach doing what it does is normal and if i can use something stronger.
 
here is what i was talking about. see the little blotch? these were covering the rims. this was another spot i must have missed. they were everywhere and much larger areas.

image by jimim, on Flickr
 
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