The stainless wire wheels on my +8 are 30 years old, still look great with 63000 miles on them. They take quite a beating as I live on and they are often driven on dusty dirty mountain dirt tracks which are a hazard of living in rural Colorado.
Bruce 1964 4/4 Series V Comp (Megan) 1994 +8 (Maurice) 2013 M3W (Olga)