Ellipsoid looking terrible

[gmac78]

Alright lads,

Whipped my passenger side Ellipsoid out last night to give the reflector a clean, wish i hadn't bothered now as the chrome has come away badly.

I guess the headlight was past it's best anyway with the chrome in this area peeling away and in need of change really.

Now then, is there a modern, cost effective way of re-chroming these or is it the case of sourcing decent second hand ones?

Cheers
Gordon

[irishs2]

See this thread

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82850

Not cheap though.

[macspring]

Eric,

you may not have had occassion to look during your S2 Avant refurb, but do you know if there is a company on this Island that provides this service ?

Not a deal breaker, but curious nonetheless, thanks either way.

[irishs2]

I dont have any first hand experience. I will have when I get back to the avant next year, as I have a spare set of reflectors to rechrome.
http://www.wechrome.com/ seem to come up from time to time on car forums. Might be worth a call.

[gmac78]

I've just sent an email to wechrome.com so i'll see what they come back. Be good if we can find somewhere to have them done at a reasonable price.

[macspring]

Thanks Eric, for once a place mentioned is near me. May be able to call in in person next to see what's what.





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[John.]

Or try here.... http://www.dual-metallising.co.uk/

[gripper]

Blimey that Dual Metalizing's prices have shot up judging by that link posted
I used these about 6 years ago when I managed to wipe off a lot of my chrome on my ellipsoids with a light duster

Ok, it was about 6 years ago and I paid around £65 but £290 for the pair !!
There is another place I phoned that are up in Birmingham but do you think I can find their number ! This 'other' place where cheaper (back then) than Dual but it was for a pair, whereas Dual will do them singly.

[macspring]

While we're all sensitive to cost, I would say that I took my UrS6 headlights apart and even though they were very fresh, so much so I was able to clean / 'wipe' them with cotton wool balls without wrecking the silver whilst still removing the dust and that together with washing the glass lenses did make a difference to both the look of the headlights and the output of the lights.

Having said that I've wiped older plastic lights back in the day when I was even more inexperienced than now and the silver wiped off almost before I knew it had.

If anyone gets prices themselves they might post the price here to allow others to know if they're getting a good price where they're based.