Gs450h Wheel Chrome Trims

[Carl911]

I have five of these plastic chrome trims on each wheel on my gs450.

Does anyone know if these trims are lacquered from the manufacturer as I suspect mine may have been lacquered whilst doing a previous wheel refurb.

My problem is the laquer is peeling in places and let's the overall wheel down.

I did try using some Cellulose thinners which removed the laquer quite easily and the chrome finish underneath looked perfect.

Whether by removing this laquer would cause the chrome finish underneath to weather remains to be seen. I'm not familiar with the process of chrome finish plastics.

If the laquer is part of the original trim has anyone else tried cleaning them up?

I know new ones can be bought but they cost £25 each so quite costly if several are required.

Carl

[samurai69]

I have some lacquer pitting on mine, i was wondering about just removing the plastic bits and leaving them off, was f going to get them re paineted anyway....... would that work??

[Carl911]

I don't think they would look very nice with the trims removed.

It looks like there are just two small mounting points behind them which each trim is screwed to.

You would end up with two short stubby bits of aluminium between each spoke which I think would look untidy.

Carl