Chrome wires are a disaster. They rust and are uneconomical to re-chrome. You can't paint them as the flaking chrome pulls the paint off. Painted wires rust as the spokes move in the rims breaking the paint surface. Stainless wires, fit & forget.
I changed my painted wires for MWS stainless in 2007, I wash them once a year whether they need it or not and they still look great.
At some point MWS used stainless spokes on Chrome wires so now only the rims are Chrome.
