Chrome advice

[sydduckett]

Iv come to the stage of my rebuild that i need to think about what i want to get chromed. I was thinking of getting the forks, tool box, tank & mudguard done and contacted London Chroming company who quoted £160 for the forks and £130 for the tank. I didnt really know what to expect price wise but I thought it was a bit lumpy?

With this in mind i was wondering:

Is this the correct sort of price?

Would i be better off to buy the custom parts from someone like Scoots RS or is the standard crap as they seem well cheap?

Can anyone reccomend a good/cheap chromer in the southeast (essex)

Ta
sef

[Andy Pickering]

http://www.qualitychrome.co.uk/parts_sale_lambretta.asp

Check this site..Speak to Karl or Keith.
They might not always be the cheapest but there hard to beat on quality believe me..Karls a life long scooter rider mainly vespas but hes had a few lammys,open this link and it will take you to the lambretta price list...

[sean brady scooters]

IMO quality chrome are the best....................

[sydduckett]

Cheeers lads, looks as they know what there doing re scooters. Thing is they are selling the forks already chromed for £188 and i was quoted £160 to have my own ones chromed by London chroming so im hoping there price to do mine will be a lot cheaper.

Did that make sense, probably not.

sef

[onefortheroad]

I know what you mean -to get yours chromed rather than to buy the part outright!
Ive had a few things done there and they certainly know what they are doing- ScootRs Chrome is not show quality standard and has a look of polished stainless steel but is ok.

[nastro azzurro]

You wont get better quality chrome work than London Chroming, but they are expensive. Judging by your quote though, it seems like the prices have come down.

I had forks, fork links, back brake pedal and a few other small parts and it came to £400.00. That was 18 months ago.

Reccession kicking in for them too I expect.

[sydduckett]

Nastro,
blimey that is lumpy. Well just had the quote back grom the Hull company and they will charge £80 for the forks plus another £30 for the links. Thats half the price of London Chrome, Im presuming the London Chrome co didnt include the links either in there price of £160?
Just need to find out the cost of postage, which im waiting on them to give to me. I will post all the costs on here so people can reffrence it later if they want. But all things being equal it to Hull and back for me......

Sef

[ArmandTanzarian]

London Chroming have a well deserved reputation for excellence. However, I can't help thinking that they do rather exploit that reputation when it comes to pricing.

[mark]

having had work done by most of the best chromers in the country . i only use london now cos i know there chrome outlasts all others and still looks like new today after 5-6 years.

[kevin1746]

If your in the South (they do a postal service too)

try these:

http://www.beckworth.net/index.asp?upid=27&msid=26

By and far the best Chromers I have found in 30 years...they do RAF quality chroming and specialise in vintage parts....not cheap though, but they have 'reclaimed' bits other companies wrote off as past it