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Old 02-26-2017, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by RodKnock View Post
For all I know, you photoshopped those pics.

And this is what a magnesium wheel would look like with the coating. No perfectly polished lips. Even Chas' mag wheels, when polished, didn't look as nice as your wheels.
You posted a picture of painted aluminum wheels, in order to show what a coated magnesium wheel looks like...

Here's what a real, Dow7 coated magnesium wheel actually looks like:



The color is very similar to the color of Patrick's spokes (in my opinion).

The lips on a magnesium wheel can also be dow7 coated (like these are) or they can be bare magnesium (which gradually turns a darker and darker gray as it oxidizes, until it is almost black- Just like the wheels in the picture of CSX4323), or the lips can be polished bare magnesium, which has a shine similar to polished nickel (mag wheel on the right, aluminum wheel on the left:



the darker the shade of gray a set of real mag wheels are, the more neglected they have been; but another point that I agree with Patrick on, is that the blue-gray color of the center spokes of Trigo wheels looks nothing like ANY shade of gray that you would ever see on a genuine Magnesium Halibrand...
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