blue max

Preparing to order 16 Z-51 vert and can't bring myself to spend 4400 on chrome wheels
Has anyone had experience in having the stock Z-51 wheels chromed or bought aftermarket chromed wheels

Red C8 of Jax

Check with Bob at House of Wheels in Delray Beach, FL, he is a forum vendor and has good prices.

jovette

I thought chrome wheel option was $1,995.00, not $4,400.00. Where do you come up with the $4,400?

F4 Phantom

I chose chrome wheels for my Z51: $1,995.

69L79

Way off on the price.

Bruiser2012

I think that about what it would cost if you bought a base convertible and got the Zf1 package and then upgraded to the chrome wheels. Maybe that is what the OP meant?

That is what I was looking at doing but I decided that it wasn't worth it to spend over $4,000 to add the Z51 style wheels in chrome to my stingray convertible.

-Bob George

Bruiser2012

Or, I think that is also the price of the "twisted" looking wheels that came standard on the 2014 premiere cars. Yeah, that's probably it

-Bob

To be sure, we really need more clarification...

crawfish333

I have a non-Z51 with standard chromies, they cost 2000.

Vetteman Jack

something is wrong with that price if it is for wheels only.

nmvettec7

When I bought my 2015 Stingray 1LT with the ZF1 Appearance Package I upgraded from the 19" & 20" Silver Painted 5 Multi-Spoke Wheel to the Z51 Chrome 5 Multi-Spoke wheel for $1995.00 MSRP and was sold the wheels with a 12.35% discount for a total of: $1748.62.

Without knowing or even seeing the 2016 price list, it is very hard to determine the cost of any option on a 2016 Corvette C7.

We do know however, the new wheels that were introduced at the Corvette Bash in April some sets were priced as high as $5400 for chrome wheels.

So until the price points are set and visible to the end consumer it is just speculation of what wheels will be offered and what price points.

We do know that the ZF1 Appearance Pkg is no longer available on the 2015 MY so it is hard to project what any future upgrade to a Z51 wheel might be priced at.

There are some very nice aftermarket reproduction wheels i have seen. The only thing they are mising is the Corvette which is molded into the OEM GM wheel.

capecodvette

You are way off the mark on the Chrome Wheel option. $1995, not $4400....

arcticblast

You may be looking at the Torque wheels. (which are the best looking, IMHO)

Boiler_81

The OP is looking at the price for the accessory wheels which is a second set of wheels. The order guides are not very clear on this. The correct price for a set of chrome as stated above is $1995.

mpuzach

Exactly. On a Z51 car (which is what the OP said he plans to order), the cost to upgrade from the standard silver painted 10-spoke wheels to chrome ones is $1995 (M.S.R.P.).

John Ulrich

I weighed getting the stock wheel and sending it to Cal Chrome in CA to have them do a full chrome ($1,020 w/shipping both ways) vs just the front chrome/silver barrel on the optional base wheel. My Lexus wheels (I purchased chromed cores they had in stock) look great with the chrome barrels. (if you want polished barrels...add another $400).
In the end I decided to just get the factory chrome and be done with it vs have the car up on jack stands for a few weeks. In hind sight I'd send out the stock wheels....the chrome face/silver barrel which show more on the 5 spoke base wheels look weird (to me) vs a fully chromed wheel.

LT1 Z51

The wheels that cost more than $2000 are "accessory" wheels (two of the bash wheels are these type, they say so in the literature). Chrome rims stock are $1995 because you get a credit for not getting the stock rims (which themselves cost $1500-2000). If you get accessory wheels the dealer installs them, therefore you also still have the stock wheels. Which is why the cost disparity is so high.

chas70

When I was building my Z-51 to order, the chrome torgue wheels were listed as a $4400 option. I have a premier vert and have not seen wheels like these on any other C-7s

Mike Campbell

Don't pay 1995.00 for chrome wheels! I went with wheel exchange with ALL of my Corvettes. The last one, a 2014 Stingray I did the exchange with Bob at House of Wheels. This saved me $1100.00. Now, it did cost me $ 115.00 to have them all mounted and balanced. I did the same with my C5 & C6. BTW they are GM wheels that are exchanged and stripped & chromed.

Larry/car

I went with standard silver painted wheels. To my amazement the clear coated silver wheel looks really good. It is all in the clear coat, stayed with the stock standard wheel.

mpuzach

I went with the silver painted wheels not because they're standard but because I like them the best. I would have gladly paid extra for them.