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Originally Posted by Head416 (Post 6427884)

So did you ever try the chrome strip?

No. Unfortunately, the rims are junk. Not because of the chrome process but because the crackhead used fix-a-flat in all of them and left it in there forever. It corrodes the piss out of alloy wheels. Two out of the three that we dismounted also had fractures near the lip.

Here are some pics:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1323742755.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1323742773.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1323742811.jpg

Boy, my ugly finger tip sure looks huge there. These photos were taken after I cleaned them up as well as I could, it was pretty gross inside when we opened them up.