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Cruiser
Posts: 255
New Brunswick , Canada | New bike coming in this winter..Vision Tour Pearl white..
I was looking at bying the Chrome plastic covers for the rear TipOvers..putting out a couple of hunded dollars for plastic covers .....Well mayby i should go for the real thing , take them off and send them to be chromed.
This is were i need your advise...don't have a clue what it would cost $ , and wouldn't know were to send them.
Did any of you had them done and at what cost ?
Who would do a good job if i would decide to have them Chromed..  |
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Tourer
Posts: 311
Atlanta Area | The covers are not plastic... They are thick stamped steel...
Arizona Vic has an exchange program for most of the parts of the Vision. The do offer exchanges on tipovers. The factory Vic chome tipovers look like azz as they left some of the tipover rough cast. The chrome metal covers are nice and smooth... |
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Cruiser
Posts: 255
New Brunswick , Canada | Hmmm ! Stamped Steel...that's alot better ...i could go with that..
What about a good place to have some parts chromed...thinking of having the control panel chromed.. |
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Tourer
Posts: 311
Atlanta Area | Pete at Carolina Custom Chrome is who you want to do business with... Pete is a Vic rider from way back and does excellent work...
http://www.carolinachrome.biz/index.html |
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Tourer
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Atlanta Area | Tell him Adam sent ya... |
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Cruiser
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New Brunswick , Canada | Great..Thanks 1Atom12... ;o)
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Tourer
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Atlanta Area | Think long and hard before you decide to chrome that radio console. With the windshield in anything other than the fully down position, your gonna get a nasty reflection in the upper portion of your windshield. That is why you see many people painting the console to match or painting it flat black... |
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Iron Butt
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Reno County, KS | I'm with Adam on on both points. Having the Tipovers chromed ends up looking like hell because the rough texture doesn't lend to the polished chrome. The tipover chrome plates seem kinda cheesy but they do stand up. I can't remember reading any complaints from anyone once they got them installed. Also, the chrome radio plate would kill me in the sunlight, especially in the afternoon. I'm going to get rid of the plastichrome instrument bezel because of the glare from it onto the windsheld. They sell an OEM blacked out one that could easily be painted to match your bike. A "whited-out" bike would be genuinely unique and still classy too! |
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Cruiser
Posts: 137
Houston, Texas | Bigwill
I took the instrument bezel off the STARSHIP; bought a can of Black Satin KRYLON paint and shot it myself....let it dry for three days and popped it back on.
Total cost $5.39
I'm just saying...
Edited by STARSHIP 1 2009-11-22 8:22 PM
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Cruiser
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Prescott Valley, AZ | You can buy the black instrument bezel from the Ness Vision for like $35.00 bucks as I recall. It looks good and with the radio panel painted black it nearly ends the glare. If I had it to do over again I would most certainly have the winshield panel (and grill) powdercoated instead of painted black like I did. Granted it looked nice when first installed but the paint does NOT stand up to road conditions and chips look like hell!!! I had the grill, windshield panel, and radio panels painted black by a reputible body shop and now am not at all satisfied with the results when you get up close to the bike. It looks good from a distance but once you look close it is painfully obvious that powdercoating was the way to go!! But like I said it looks GOOD as long as you don't stare, which does seem to be a bit of a problem with a Vision!!! |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 1158
Richmond, Virginia | We've been doing some black chrome on the instrument bezel which looks awesome for customers. YOu dont get the glare but it looks better then the black paint. We're doing a black chrome front fender treatment on a bike now, should look cool once done.
The chrome rear tipovers are nice, they are not plastic paint, Keep in mind boys that if you drop the bike you can pop off the overlays
much cheaper then you can pay to re-purchase and re-chrome the originals. |
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Rear TipOvers,,Chromed or Covers