"Dip" your car ? Prepare to be shocked.

What?

Spray on vinyl wrap?

Ok, we need an Fchat stooge to do this...



Kai

 

We've been doing this for specialty costumes and props in the film biz for over ten years.

No reason it wouldnt work on a car.

Only downside is picking it out of areas like the grill once you want to remove it.

 

How durable is it?

Looks way cheaper than vinyl wrap.

Kai

 

Its extremely durable. Superhero costumes like in Batman are sprayed with it. Of course, we dont leave them out in the elements all day and night...so not sure how that goes. But its the same material they use to dip tool handles in, so its very very durable.

The finish is not as smooth as a vinyl wrap and I could see matte black working much better than any other color.

The only real downside is if it starts to peel at an edge, its almost impossible to stop. Just have to peel that entire panel off and re-do it.

 

Cool, thanks.

Kai

 

A lot of Subaru owners do this, usually just the wheels as it is more durable than most DIY paint jobs and it can be undone easily. Some people do their entire car, it's surprising how good it ends up looking.

 

go to this link, and do a search for plastidip and check out the threads. a lot of these guys have been using it on wheels and stuff


http://www.performancetrucks.net/forums/show-shine-discussion-129/

 

I'm surprised it comes off that easily!

 

Why?

 

To temporarily change the look of your car without making it permanent.

Think of it as a colored clear bra...


Kai

 

Isn't there a type of wax based paint they use in Hollywood, that washes off easily? I remember reading about it. They used to paint the helicopters on Airwolf almost every week...

 

Even outside, he has got to be high as a kite by the end of that. Plasti-Dip is great, but some of the nastiest stuff to inhale. Whew! I'd be wearing a respirator, even outside.

 

I'd like to see the end result in person before I decide whether or not I like it.

 

I just bought a white police interceptor at the city surplus auction that needs a paint job... I was just thinking "I'd love to paint the car but the car isn't worth the time or money to give it better than an earl schieb job"

If I have time later this summer, I might give it a shot.

 

I painter a crapcan racecar this winter with a pint of rustoleum, and a foam roller. It turned out much better than I expected.

 

Going to get all the rust spots taken care of on the track slut Civic I am building. Going to try this out for ha ha's. Full kit with gun is only $310.

 

Just watched the full video... seems really easy. No hidden tricks. I have painted a jeep before with a single stage enamel, and done some light bodywork in the past, so none of what he did seemed very tricky...

 

That's what I was thinking, I'm not paying to get my car repainted, but it could use it, $300 isn't that bad. I bet it's cheaper to piece the kit together from Lowe's as well.

 

Yeah, probably could get it from lowes, but whats wrong with thowing a few bucks the way of the guy who took the time to put a kit together, and basically teaches you how to do it through youtube? Good on him for identifying a hole in the market and taking the initiative to become a distributor with those manufacturers who never imagined their products would be used that way...

 

He also supplies the dip pre-thinned correctly as tool dip is too thick. That in itself would take some experimenting. Hes already done the legwork on it.

 

So I bought a spray can of this stuff at the home depot... and went out to the shop and sprayed one of the 1:18 models I had on the shelf...
dang thing turned out every bit as good as fonzie's audi.

Peeling it off was a breeze, except on the clear plastic, I'm pretty sure that cheap clear plastic on the cheap hot wheels 1:18 scales didn't like the spray very much... had I bothered to mask the clear parts, it would have looked perfect, "like Scaglietti had murdered out a 250LM."

 

pics... and then my battery died.
note the time stamps, i spent no time doing prep and waited only a couple min before each coat. my one mistake was trying to peel the coating off the clear plastic before the many coats had a chance to dry.
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