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Old Oct 22, 2005 | 07:30 AM
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Default WS6 Wheels or not?

I hope someone can give me a definitive answer on this -

I have polished aluminum wheels on my car. There isn't WS6 sticker in the middle of them, and obviously they aren't chrome. There is someone who is very serious about buying my car and he is a little weary about it being a REAL WS6 because my wheels aren't chrome and don't have the sticker in the middle.

Did WS6's come with both chrome and high polished wheels? I know my car is a WS6, the original window sticker says Ram Air Handling package, and the RPO sheet has WS6 on there. I just want to give this guy some facts, like so and so number of WS6's in 2001 had chrome wheels, and so and so number had polished wheels, to make him more comfortable about it being genuine.

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Old Oct 22, 2005 | 09:21 AM
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I believe most of the WS6 wheels were polished and not chrome. I know they came in polished since I had a set for a while.
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Old Oct 22, 2005 | 09:38 AM
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I have a set of 98 WS6 wheels on my Z28. They sure look chrome to me!
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Old Oct 22, 2005 | 09:46 AM
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well pretty much 98-00 ws6's had the chrome 17's and 01 and 02 had the polished ones
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Old Oct 22, 2005 | 11:35 AM
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Mine're polished
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Old Oct 22, 2005 | 12:16 PM
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1999 T/A WS6---POLISHED...not CHROME....
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Old Oct 22, 2005 | 01:51 PM
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pictures would make this sooooooooooo much easier
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Old Oct 22, 2005 | 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by 1RawTA
well pretty much 98-00 ws6's had the chrome 17's and 01 and 02 had the polished ones

98-00 are actually polished, I got a set off ebay that were chromed by slp and had them side by side. Big difference! I need to either get rid of these or chrome 2 more.

edit: I said actually 1 too many times
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From what I have seen the factory wheels are polished and the SLP/aftermarket are chrome.
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the 98-00 have the WS6 sticker the 01-02 have the pontiac logo
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