Achipmunk- I used the 'live chat' yesterday to talk to Adam while I was on their site, and he asked me to send him a picture or two. It was pouring down rain here, so I haven't made it back to him yet, but that's a very good idea about getting credit instead. I've had chrome signal light bezel screws start to rust within weeks (they sell s.s. bezels, but cheap screws- bought some ss at a local hardware store), and a rear view mirror and the front fog lamp chrome that the PO bought shortly before I got it from him are both looking like they've been out in a field for a couple of decades. There are a few other things that I can't remember right now to add to that list that I've gotten there. Then there's the stainless door panel trim and windshield trim that were so sloppily cut it was sad, and the door panel trim was also bent too big for my original door panels. I know it's not the company's work, because they've all been labeled with the same company name and 'made in Thailand' stickers, but a few times the CP reps really had an attitude about how they knew it fit "because they try them on our shop". I asked if they were trying them on panels and windshield rubber that were aftermarket, too, because mine are originals, and they still acted like I was a daft fool or idiot. Very insulting. The Ironworker in me took over, and I unloaded on them, but it doesn't make me feel any better when I have to do that.
realsteeler, I was thinking the same thing. A guy who gets the parts for my Gilroy, CA Indian Chief for me has a great chromer out there, and he did a couple of exhaust cones for me for not much, so I'm thinking seriously about sending him one set of each of my spare collection (door handles, trim, anything that goes on the truck) and having him do it for me. The previous owner gave me about 4 storage tubs full of spare parts, some have two or three of each, so I've got a big collection of things that someone else didn't want to have chromed back when they could have done it cheap. Oh, well. How about a picture of your front bumper?? I'd like to see that! My truck has a stainless rear bumper and if I could have gotten a stainless grill down the road, I would have bought a stainless front bumper for it instead. I have to admit the chrome bumper looks good, so it must not have come from the same communist sweatshop that the rest of their chrome comes from. But then again, it's only been on there a month or so...:)
