Chrome’s century-long reign as that added bit of flash and glamour on new cars may be coming to an end. At least at one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its aesthetic appeal.
You usually need to buff it because calcium builds up on it. If your in the states eighteen wheelers gas tanks are usually made of aluminum and they pay good money to get them polished.
They really should make polished aluminum a thing. It’s so hot looking if you take care of it.
What exactly is involved in taking care of it?
If it involves more than a couple trips through the automatic car wash a year I’d personally rather just forego the shiny bits altogether.
You usually need to buff it because calcium builds up on it. If your in the states eighteen wheelers gas tanks are usually made of aluminum and they pay good money to get them polished.
That’s very surprising to me, I’d always assumed tankers were stainless steel. Do they have to have a lining inside?
They would have to now days. I don’t t think they originally did. My understanding is the stainless steel ones rust quickly.
Stainless doesn’t really rust out as most of the iron is gone.
Or acid wash whitens them, but I don’t like that look, since it isn’t mirror finish.