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#1 ·
I was thinking (what was I thinking) the chrome on my ms doesn't look right with my gray paint.
Dupli-color has a product called 'shadow', two can thing with a clear coat. I watched their youtube when they did some wheels, I could not duplicate what they did. I had a really hard time getting things to come out right. If you use it try one piece at a time until you figure things out. (Acetone takes it off if you need to start over again)
I started with my chrome mirrors, but I accidentally reversed the caps on the cans and put another coat of 'dark', so I just painted them black.
On the small parts I did ok. When I tried to do the left outside cover, three times, it looked good from a distance lol, "looks good from my house" then I thought the clutch cover side would probably get to hot for the stuff so that was my excuse to give up, and put it back to chrome.
I would not recommend this product.
 
#2 ·
The "Dark Smoke Gun Barrel Treatment" would look cool. It would be heat resistant too. But beware, it's hard to work with too. I tried to re-blue an old pistol. Didn't turn out to well.
 
#3 ·
How about anodizing. Can you do that over chrome?
 
#4 ·
Check this stuff out. Might give you the look you're going for. It definitely looks different than straight black, a lot more depth. Going over real chrome gives the best effect, trying to use the chrome powders as a base tends to give it more of a greenish hue in certain lights and I wouldn't recommend it. As long as the chrome is in good shape you should be fine unless you have some chinese made aftermarket stuff.

solar rain dark chrome

Those rattle can special finishes never turn out that great and they tend to scratch easily from the experiences I've had with them.
 
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