Chrome? YES! I love CHROME! By all means go chrome--hang the cost. Every time I walk past my bus I'm pleased by the CHROME bumpers. However, a couple of words of caution about replating. Insist on triple plating, copper, nichel, chrome. Insist that all edges both showing and not showing be rounded smooth with a flapper disc and that ALL!!! old plating be removed. The reason for founding the edges is that chrome ions don't do square corners. That's why you see so many replated bumpers peeling. Like this on a buddies MG:
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My bumpers were bent and pitted and looked like this:
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I collected the bumpers afret they had been straightened and polished and made sure the edges hac been properly polished--they were. I don't recall what the plating cost (I did shop some) but what ever it was it was worth it to me.
Jack
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