I would like to add some personal touches to my Roadster; namely CHROME WHEELS, lighting, etc.

Can anyone direct me to a good source for our vehicles?

 

I am planning to do some of the same to the 05' I just picked up. I don't know what style of wheels you are going for, but there are a bunch out there. The ones I am saving my pennies for are by a company out of california called OEM wheels. You can find their products on ebay. They trade you the stock wheels for a set of stock wheels that they have blasted and tripple chromed. They look great and your stock tires slap right back on. I spoke with someone who purchased a set from this company and they said that it ran about $1000 total with the shipping, mounting, and balancing etc. Other than that, if you dig around in the forum here there are a lot of links and advice on other chrome parts.

 

I found this company a few months ago, sounds like a very nice alt. to chrome plating, ie NO rust!
Sorry, no I don't have personal experience with them, again just looked like a great way to spiff up your stock wheels.
I found this article below explaining the proccess.
Paul

http://www.helioscoatingsinc.com/company.html

Top Innovator Award:
Helios Coatings, Inc.’s Metallight Wheel Finishing Technology

Kevin Biller (left) presents the 2006 Top Innovator Award to Marshall Leininger, CEO of Helios Coatings, Inc.
The Helios Coatings system is remarkable in many ways. First of all, it marries three distinct technologies to create a product and finishing effect that has been long sought in our industry. In addition, the story of this David in a land of automotive Goliaths is both amazing and uplifting. Its genesis springs forth from a vision by the founder of the process, Marshall Leininger. Marshall has been in the finishing industry for more than 25 years in roles as diverse as a jobcoater and a product manager for a medium sized coating producer. Through the years, he recognized the need for an acceptable replacement for chrome plating on automotive wheels.

The metallizing of plastic substrates is a well-developed technology. Some manufacturers have cultivated processes that involved the metallizing of powder coating films for applications other than automotive wheels. The French had metallized powder films for use as headlamp reflectors throughout the 1990s. Leininger felt that he could consolidate the attributes of powder coating, vacuum metallizing and UV cure to produce a chrome-like finish for automotive wheels. To accomplish his vision, he enlisted the services of Seibert Powder Coatings, Red Spot Paint (UV coatings), Advanced Vacuum Systems (vacuum metallizing process), Nutro Corp (turnkey installation), Fusion Systems (UV lamps), GE-Water & Process Technologies (pretreatment) and Anderson Development (powder resins).

The process starts with a clean alloy wheel that sees a nine stage pretreatment process. The wheel is then dried and powder coated with a high distinctness of image (DOI) primer. This primer is baked, sealed with a liquid UV coating and cured with intense UV light. Following the UV cure, the surface of the wheel is vacuum metallized. The thin metallic layer provides an incredibly bright surface. However, this surface will quickly tarnish if left exposed to the atmosphere. It is therefore coated with a high-gloss, automotive-quality clear powder and baked to a hard, scratch-resistant finish.

The resultant finish provides a remarkable coating, both from an aesthetic and performance standpoint. The look achieves the luster of a traditional chrome finish without any environmental detriment. Furthermore, accelerated tests indicate that the Helios process surpasses chrome plating for corrosion resistance.

In the past few months, Helios Coatings, Inc. has significantly increased its production output and is looking to expand the capacity of its plant to meet increasing commercial demand. In the automotive land of gargantuan coating conglomerates, it is refreshing to encounter an enterprising individual realizing his dream. Congratulations, Marshall Leininger and the Helios Coatings team.







Paul

 

^ Oh I like that. Now somebody help me find a Helios Metallight dealer in South East PA!

 

Opticon: Check their website, not sure exactly how they do business, may have to go through a Chrysler dealer. OR you may have to directly ship your wheels to them.
I would know all these answers if at this time I were looking to do this to my stock rims....but unfortunatly I'm not fiscally fit right now.

Paul

 

Triple chrome plate them like mine. http://https://www.crossfireforum.or...php?photo=9340