AHH, my BBS 18's are peeling, what happened??

spdfrkaby · Apr 19, 2006

Hey peeps, what's going on here? The car hasn't been up for a winter yet so I know it's not from the weather and there isn't any salt laid down here so anyone know what's going on here. I just walked out of a store thought it had tar on it but it was the actual rim. The previous owner, which I know, bought the rims from tire rack and they're BBS RK rims. Supposed they're polished but as anyone can tell they're definately not. Anyone know why this happened? It's the only rim that's doing this. I could go for this new look though, black on black so if anyone knows how I can get the rest of the chrome cover stuff off all the rims please let me know. Thanks.

excuse the dirtiness, it was raining at the time.

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86bluecobra · Apr 19, 2006

i would say bad chrome job. a interesting tid bit for you. Fire hawk cars have chrome rims from the aftermarket builder. in a few years like 2000 all the factory rims did the same thing. they said bad chroming process was the cause and or extreme heat off the brakes cause rims to peel.

spdfrkaby · Apr 19, 2006

the rims are kind of black chrome. There called Plasma according the BBS. If I could get all of this chrome off would I need to powdercoat black or would be good as is?

TrueBlue03 · Apr 19, 2006

i like the color under that peeling chrome! peel it all off and i think that might look awesome. lol

spdfrkaby · Apr 19, 2006

update now both back rims are peeling. no signs from the front as of yet

spdfrkaby · Apr 19, 2006

update now both back rims are peeling. fronts are showing no signs so far.

Cantslowdown · Apr 19, 2006

Damn dude that sucks I would be kinda pissed..But I have never seen that happen at all.. Kinda crazy.

Ernad · Apr 19, 2006

interesting, wouldn't know why though.

01' Bullitt · Apr 19, 2006

Once you go black...

2k3gt · Apr 19, 2006

Man, those rims underneath the chrome look SICK!

It's like... a black-ish... chrome... blome.... chrack?

I don't care, I LOVE it!

AmBo · Apr 19, 2006

wow bro. I've NEVER seen that before and I thought I had it bad! My old chrome 17 bullitts peeled a LITTLE. Nothing like that. Holy god.

I was thinking the SAME thing while looking at those pics. Get that chrome off! Will look HOT!

ADRENLN · Apr 19, 2006

i have the same rims as you. i have had them for 2 yrs. now. car is garaged though. they are a plasma finish it is supposed to be different then chrome.

anyway, i had no idea they were blace under there, but i have said on here a couple of times that when my rims get scratched up ar chip im powdercoating black. i think it would awsome on the design of the rims.

we might not even have to powdercaot them after all. definitly get the rest off and go black

mity2 · Apr 20, 2006

Is that a Panoz Auto Development embrem on the wheel??

Henceforward · Apr 20, 2006

mity2 said:
Is that a Panoz Auto Development embrem on the wheel??

Yea, the Panoz Esperante uses a lot of Cobra parts... The suspension is a spot on match for the 1999 Cobra.

They even use th 1999 Cobra guage cluster...

The 32V Romeo engine is the best part.

mity2 · Apr 20, 2006

no crop. those are coolazz cars, 'cept center gauge. thats ghey

Ernad · Apr 20, 2006

mity2 said:
no crop. those are coolazz cars, 'cept center gauge. thats ghey

yeah, wtf?

if it was at least angled towards driver, it may make sense, but that way it's weird

sorry for the :OT:

mity2 · Apr 20, 2006

Ernad said:
yeah, wtf?

if it was at least angled towards driver, it may make sense, but that way it's weird

sorry for the :OT:

Seriously.. Remind me of my friend's Echo, and thats super "I never get laid" mobile....

V_Eight · Apr 20, 2006

ALL PLASMAS DO THIS. That is why they were discontinued! I guarantee they are out of the 2 year finish warranty too!

My silver RK's will stay silver for years to come!

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V_Eight · Apr 20, 2006

mity2 said:
Is that a Panoz Auto Development embrem on the wheel??

All RK's come with a set of Panoz centercaps as well as BBS caps.

spdfrkaby · Apr 20, 2006

Does anyone have any idea on how to get this top chrome coating off without messing up the black under it? I've tried a heatgun and that didn't work.

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