47-55.1 Preserving Chrome

[vintovka]

Anyone have a magic preservative for "chrome" hardware?. Everything on my 54 is starting to corrode like door handles, parking light bezels and fog lamp housings. Each get carefully and routinely waxed with each wash. Always kept dry and in garage as well. The Parking light bezels are only 3 years old. Was considering replacing them but last Brothers catalog lists now them at an insane 100% more. Anyone make stainless handles etc. and not the chrome pot metal?? I realize being near the ocean is an issue but there has to be some way to slow things down.

[Warrens69GMC]

Usually wiping with Nevr-Dull helps.

https://www.amazon.com/Nevr-Dull-NEV.../dp/B00097CRY6

[mr48chev]

My dad's buddys who used to own the Chrome shop in Yakima would put a coat of Rally wax on fresh chrome when they had it ready to deliver. They didn't buff it up or anything but Buck said that the wax would keep the chrome in good shape a lot longer. You don't want to keep polishing it all that often as polishing wears through the chrome. Buck showed me some pieces that he said he was redoing for the third time in probably 30 years because the owner loved to polish his car and his chrome and wore though the paint and chrome by polishing it way too much. The bars he did on my grill in 1982 still look good except for the ones my son backed in to with his car. I need to replace two bars but have replacements.