Can Chrome be treated the same as paint???

[ranorris2]

well first i took it to the body shop I use and they could not do anything for it....then i used a steel wool '0000' grade, which is the finest they make, with two different polishes. First I tried Mcguire's car polish, then Mcguire's chrome polish...

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Do any of you guys know how much getting parts "chromed" cost? Examples or whatever you have heard...there are a few shops fairly close to me that do good work from what I researched but I can't find pricing anywhere.

 

[ranorris2]

So I am not a happy camper...
I took the chrome rails to the body shop I use and they sent them to the chrome shop they use. Just got called back today saying they could not buff out the scratches and would have to dip them in chrome. BUT they said if they do this the back side of them, where the cross bars would go, would be like a goldish color. WTF?!?!? Anybody that have the esky roof rack, are the back side of your rails goldish or am I just talking to a someone who doesn't chrome very well?

I have definitely learned my lesson on buying any thing without a return policy...I paid $300 for this rack with cross bars, thinking I would probably just have to repaint the caps. Little did I know I was going to have to jb weld parts of the plastic back together, get the rails rechromed, find out the cross rails don't even fit the rack, as well as paint the caps. This F'ing $300 piece of crap will turn into $600 if I get it rechromed. If I could return this thing I would, even after painting the end caps I would sacrifice the $70 to get my $300 back....this incident has pissed me off and scared me enough to only buy from a certain few on this forum.

 

[felixgun]

I can't believe you got the wrong cross bars that's just plain wrong!

 

[ranorris2]

Yeah I'm pretty frustrated about it all...I'm going to see how much some new rails are if I can find some. I thought I remember them being a tough find at the moment, so with the way my luck is going I wont have a roof rack for a while.

 

[ranorris2]

Well...I am getting the rails rechromed for $100 bucks. I am hoping they come out ok, and I have found someone that will buy my tahoe stock roof rack with the crossrails that were supposed to be for the esky roof rack, but actually fit the tahoe. It will take some of my painful experience of this purchase away lol.

 

[ranorris2]

Got the roof rack back from being rechromed and the caps repainted....now it looks brand spankin new...only had to pay $500 for a stupid esky rack...should of bought new to begin with (purchase $300 + paint $100 + rechrome $100)....live and learn I guess