Recently bought a 07 grand prix GXP im in the process of restoring, cosmetically it is as a disaster, years of just hard neglect and winter weather have taken its toll. The wheels are staggered forged alcoa two piece wheels fronts being 18x8 and rears being 18x7 from the factory. Rears have never touched a curb and are mostly just dirty and neglected, but the fronts have been winged and dinged on multiple occasions. The look im going for for these wheels is a black chrome effect, didn't want to get crazy expensive with the stock wheels, and duplicolor offers their "shadow chrome" kit which gives me exactly what I am looking for, while im confident this will work well on the back wheels, I am skeptical about the front's, and not sure if these are worth saving and what I should do here. Should i sand them down and respray the effected areas with a "chrome" paint and then do the shadow effect afterwards? Or do you think these wheels are too far gone to warrant paint at this point and need to be fully restored and powdercoated.
Dupli-Color :: Shadow
Dupli-Color :: Shadow