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Originally Posted by speeder
Glad to hear that Al is still going strong. He has refinished at least 2 sets of wheels for me and did excellent work for a very fair price. I was 100% pleased and I'm picky.
I've heard the same thing about chroming and Fuchs rims. When I sold new Porsches in the '80s at Westwood Porsche/Audi, Robert Woods used to come in and talk the boss into letting him chrome the wheels on showroom cars and it just made my skin crawl. Partly because I hated the look but also because I knew even then that he was depleting the supply of Fuchs rims in the world. The rims that I'm thinking of, (on a car I'm thinking of buying), are AMG monoblocks on a MB. I imagine they're forged but don't know(?)
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AMG monoblocks were also factory chromed. In other words, they weren't factory finished silver and sent out aftermarket. The factory produced them in chrome. I'm sure it's much the same process, but may make a difference in how they can be stripped and refinished.