Anyone ever had plastic chrome interior parts done?

gearheads78 · Nov 20, 2008

I'm so pissed right now I can hardly type. Been waiting two weeks for my arm rests and floor shift gage bezel to come back. Sent my pieces which were very nice pieces but the chrome was rubbing off. This is the **** I get back. Am I just expecting too much?? Its hard to see how bad it really is in pictures but basicly it looks like 220 scratches were as slick as they got it and then plated or what ever they do.

I am on a shoestring budget for the car right now and scraped up 150.00 to spend on cow manure. You would think the way the economy is right now someone would bend over backward on quality of work right now. If I had a shop and this kind of work was seen in the light of day I would have to close down do to embarasment. :x :x :x

So is there a place out there that can make parts look in the zip code of decent?

davewho1 · Nov 20, 2008

Wow, that is piss-poor.

Whose fine work is that, anyway? I want to avoid those people when I get to that point.

PCB67SS · Nov 20, 2008

I would surely hope they can be done better than that.....I'd be on the phone to the owner and asking him to correct the situation......Hell I'd even offer to sand them if thats what it takes. Try to relax and get some sleep tonight and start fresh in the morning.....But I'm with you that sucks.

Pete 67 · Nov 20, 2008

Did they plate YOUR parts, or just exchange them cores they already had plated?

Either way, that plating work look like crap, & I would be raising hell on the phone yesterday.

Good luck.

1badss396 · Nov 20, 2008

Thats what I was thinking also? That sure is some crap work with all those scratches in it...:sad:

gearheads78 · Nov 20, 2008

thanks guys

after a little research on some other boards I am not the only one to get crap work from the place I used. I have had multiple suggestions to use http://www.cvvacuumplaters.com/ for quality work.

Not saying who I used but I will say it was not Mr. B's , Mr. E's, Mr. P's, Mr. V's or Mr. Z's

Ark68SS · Nov 20, 2008

gearheads78 said:
http://www.cvvacuumplaters.com/ for quality work.
Not saying who I used but I will say it was not Mr. B's , Mr. E's, Mr. P's, Mr. V's or Mr. Z's

Can I buy a vowel??

You might also want to try www.autoinstruments.com
They're in the US and I was extremely pleased with the work and the communication with them. It won't get done quickly, but it'll be right or they'll make it right for you.
BillL

Andy69 · Nov 20, 2008

wow. why would they even send out stuff that looks like that?

cv67 · Nov 20, 2008

Time to fire Pedro. :sad:

gearheads78 · Nov 21, 2008

Looks like I am not the only fan

http://www.rechromedplastic.8m.com/

Chris R · Nov 22, 2008

Back in the early 90s. I sent a bunch of stuff off of my 66SS to a shop in CA that Hot Rod magazine used for a 66 project they were working on. They posted the contact info for them so I contacted them too to see if they could do my stuff. Sent them a bunch of plastic stuff inside and they came back really nice, so I sent them a hood latch to do also, came back nice again. So I sent them every trim part on the front and also the grill. All the trim on the back and also the rear chevelle script. Thats when things changed.

They started getting harder and harder to get ahold of and when I finally did, it seemed like there was a lot of business problems going on, personell or something, but my parts were taking forever. After many many months I finally got one piece back, the rear chevelle script, it was repaired but they for some reason didnt chrome the friggin thing. I was never able to get ahold of them again and I ended up never seeing all those trim parts off the front and rear again. Ended up costing my almost 1000 bucks to replace it all.

I ended up posting about what happened to them (Quicksilver chrome, Yorba Linda) here on TC and someone came forward with new contact information and even had the same guys name that I was working with. I had called him and he kind of blew me off, kept telling me to call back in a month or this time or that, I kept calling when he said he would but finally just gave up knowing my parts are either gone or on someone elses 66. Seems the guy fell on hard times but it would have been nice to at least be sent back my parts.

Lesson learned, just because even a national magazine gives a shop attention, you never know if your parts will even be done right, if there even done at all. It really pays to get some real world recommendations out there.

Anyone ever had plastic chrome interior parts done?

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