"Dip" your car ? Prepare to be shocked.

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Im gonna do the whole car flat black this weekend... with a big DK on the door.. California uber alles

i coated that panel 6 times, an all the emblems, and the gas filler door, and two of the wheels, with one six dollar spray can... this stuff is AWESOME

 

Oh, Gawd bless ya.
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3 weeks ago I finished "dipping" the whole car, one can at a time, with rattle can flat black plasti dip from Lowes.... the material is awesome, but the rattlecan of course left the same sort of striping you would get with regular spray paint. About 4 coats overall.

Despite the striping, for 50 bucks worth of spray can plasti-dip, it proved the concept to me on the durability and ease of removal. After 3 weeks of near-daily use and 3 hours of backroad triple digit fun, the plastidip shows no damage or wear except for the normal road grime and bird crap sitting on the surface. I even removed the trunk lid coat and while it didn't peel up in one piece, it wasn't too bad, took 10 minutes for that big old trunk lid... I think if I had sprayed it on thicker it would have come up in one piece. No residue and no tools were needed for removal.

It was a great way to decide if i liked the color change from white to flat black... I definitely do and I am going to order the true kit and do it the right way this time.

Tonight I'll take it to the car wash and see how well it stands up to a normal wash.

Fun experiment!

 

Would this work to protect selected areas on a car run on the track?

 

I really think it would.

 

As I'm watching the video I'm thinking that neighborhood looks like Coral Springs, turns out it is. This is local to me so if anyone wants me to stop by and check it out I'd be happy to. I might even have him do the tins on my knucklehead.

 

Holy crap that looks fun.

 

There's a right way & a wrong way to do this. The application looks too rough on the body, he may have not kept the correct distance & there is question of thinner & activator ratio to the rubberized spray.

I like the idea of using cotton fabric with painters tape, seems to be a better way of protecting the window & other areas. Don't get me wrong, it looks interesting & fun but make sure your panels are dent free because this stuff will make the damage stand out more.

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Can you post some pics? I'd love to see!

 

Finally remembered to take a pic...

Remember, I bought this car a month ago at a police auction and it is actually white paint undeneath.

Every time I get in it the peter gunn theme from blues brothers plays in my head.

Ignore the dirt and dead grass clinging to the doors...

Notice the striping on the hood because I was doing this, impatiently, with rattle cans of plastidip instead of the guys kit. Horizontal surfaces are hard to coat evenly with rattle cans.

I may not have to redo any of the vertical surfaces. But I am going to buy the airless gun and pre-thinned bulk from the guy and finish it the right way this weekend.

edit: I went online to buy the complete kit today but the guy's website is down...?
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Oh, and it held up just fine to the self service car wash high pressure wand... except for one area of the corner of the trunk lid that had a very thin coat on it because I ran out of the material.

And as a real test, in another spot on the door with a proper thickness, where I applied the high pressure nozzle less than 1/2" away, for longer than 5 seconds, and it tore a pea-sized hole in the plastidip... but the tear stayed small and the torn area has not flaked off or peeled off nor has the spot gotten any bigger.

 

You could have picked a model which was not as nice to experiment on...

 

That one is just the mattel toy grade hot wheels 1:18... not rare or particularly detailed, nor expensive. It was worth the fun experiment and I have dozens more 1:18... that one had the most "plain"surface area which is why I chose it.

I take them all out of the box and throw away the box immediately... same with all my 1:64 hot wheels... keeping toys in their pristine cartons is a sin.

 

His website is actually up... problem might have been my browser not liking the number of redirects

 

A friend asked for advice on doing his car, so here's what I told him.

I used a pressure washer and removed the plastidip from my Crown Vic Police Interceptor, it is white again.

I peeled a lot of it with my fingers. In the areas where my paint was damaged (ie, belt buckle scratches on the rear fenders from perps being handcuffed) it didn't come off in as big a pieces. Also where the plastidip was sprayed on too thin (lower parts of the car where my eyes told me it was coated but it was a very thin coat) those thin areas needed the pressure washer to get clean.

As a general rule, not related to plastidip, Be careful with a pressure washer around rubber trim of any kind. I damaged some rubber trim around the rear window by holding the 3,000psi stream on the same spot for a few seconds.

 

Never posted this here but I plastidipped my grill.
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The plan is to eventually black out the chrome bumpers and the trim/cladding down the side of the car, but I may end up using bed liner for that depending on how much off road use it sees.

 

How do you guys think this stuff will work on wheels? Thinking of doing my wheels in white, I'm just thinking that they will get really torn up pretty quickly.

 

"Grill" means different things to different folks - glad you enclosed pic.

Is plastidrip trail-rated?

 

I've been reading about guys plastidipping their wheels. Supposedly it is pretty durable for quite a while (I've read 1 year +).

I got a cheap set of stock wheels for my audi, and tried the plastidip yesterday. Two cans for 4 wheels, and I've got to say, they look great. I'll see how long it lasts.

Mostly I wanted to see how the car would look with black wheels. If I like it after a while, I may just go ahead and get them powder-coated. The again, the plastidipping is so easy, it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal to do it once a year...
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I met the son of the owner of an independent trailer repair facility located in an east coast state.
He told me that he wanted to paint his ram whose clear coat had peeled.
He suggested Rustoleum Hammered Paint.
With all of the newer cars his siblings had, I asked him why he just did'nt buy a new rig ?
He said he really loved the old beast and besides his old man had taught him the value of a dollar.
I took his advice and painted my old pickup with the stuff using a brush and roller.
Now I use pledge to wax the car once every couple of months.
I suppose this could be called a redneck paint job.
I wonder how long the finish will last with the same stuff they use to paint lawn furniture and shopping carts ?

 

Since my roof was getting weathered & clear coat starting to age, I thought about for a while & went ahead & plasti-dipped my Mini Cooper R53 including the rims. So far I like the results, the stuff was really simple to work with but the only problem I ran into, is be sure to shake & mix up the dip thoroughly. Large deposits that sit a the bottom of the gallon cans will clump up in the spray gun will come out as larger, flaked deposits. It took longer than I expected (4hrs w/ five to six coats) but I do like the final results.
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looks pretty good

 

People on the MINI sites would go mental for that look.

All the best,
Andrew.