Rear Valance or Fangs blacked out

VDC_OFF

use a lot of patience and try to do short sections along the curve and long strips around the straights. Also make sure you sand in side that edge good because you dont want the paint to peel off when you take the tape off. Here he sanded after he taped which is a better idea then what i did which was sanding before. I had to be carefull not to take the gloss off the parts i didnt want painted. For a clean line, I suggest using the blue tape that says edge lock or something like that. Regular blue tape sucks imo and I have to touch up some parts. Keep some paint thinner handy just incase you mess up. You can dab a little on a cloth and wipe it right off if you have over spray somewhere.

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Grindkiezer

I've tried to plasti dip it 3 times now and every time, no matter how much I spray (to peel it when it's wet) or how soon I try to peel the tape off after that, the edges lift so I just end up removing the whole thing rather than just having a ghetto looking paint job on it. I might just end up doing a CF wrap or flat black wrap on it, but we'll see.

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nmjaxx9

You dont wanna peel too soon, that makes it look uneven, spray a coat with 10 min intervals and then when you are finally done, wait 5-8 mins and slowly peel off the tape. Theres a DIY video on here somehwere for it just youtube it!!

Grindkiezer

I thought that since the area that I was spraying doesn't have a sharp edge that it won't make a clean cut on it's own, so you have to try and pull the tape out of the valence and bumper crevice while it was still wet?

Trying this while the dip has dried would make it so that the dip does not cut but it will tear and give me the same problems that I already have.

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nmjaxx9

What I did was I waited a good 5-8 min like I said where it wasnt wet but it wasnt compeletely dry. You kind of have to guage it, once you do that you can pull it off slowly at first if the plasti dip is almost of the stage of elasticity then you go ahead and carefully pull of the rest.

RotanimoD

sanding in this process is absolute requirement? anybody try this without sanding it down? ty

VDC_OFF

A trick I use is to take an exacto knife and cut score a line at the edge of the tape before you peel it, this way it wont mess up your edge. Just take your time and try to make it as straight as possible.


Never spray on top of clear coat, it will flake off unless you are using plastidip

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nmjaxx9

YES!, sanding will make the paint stick better. GL