Apparently plasti dip is considered a dangerous item so thats why it costs so much per can and costs a ton to ship it across.

Anyone have any knowledge/experience of shipping aerosol cans over? I couldn't even get a quote off the FedEx site.

I might have to end up doing a bulk buy with some mates here, apparently one seller can do $25/can. Not sure if its worth doing at that price though.

At this rate I think shipping an evo-r front lip will cost a truck load too

Anyone know of any product that will disolve the plastidip so I can get it off? Want to try to get this foxed by the weekend, I have a WI Z meeting this weekend. Sucks enough I'm not getting my exhaust before then.

You can do what I did and just clay bar it. That definitely got it off.

Getting it off the car is easy, getting it off the lettering in all the nooks and cranny's isn't.

Oh, sorry I can't help you then. Maybe something like goo gone?

toothpick?

This works great. Used it myself for the overspray, accidentally touched the emblem with it and melted it. I had to redo my front burger.


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For those that plastidipped their wheels, I see that you guys did the lug nuts also. No worries of the stuff coming when taking off your wheels?

Do like 7 or 8 thick coats around that area and just be gentle when you mess with them. I wrapped a cloth around my socket when I put the lug nuts back in and they were fine. And if it ever gets messed up you can just do them again :)


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I heard WD-40 does the trick too.

Update, so I used alchohol and some cotton balls and that seems to take it off pretty good. I swabbed almost the entire back of my car, it gets everywhere.

So for my second attempt I newspapered half my car. You may laugh, but trust me, it's necessary, I did it in an enclosed space with no wind and it still got all over the back of my car, little microscopic specs everywhere, I'm glad I caught it on the first coat on my first attempt.

I just finished my last coat for this second attempt. I sprayed so much on it didn't even look like I was spraying anything on it was so black. If this isn't thick enough, it's just not going to work for me. SO wish me luck, I'm going to let it dry overnight so it hardens. I'll take it off tomorrow.

So after kinda reading about this, decided to play around with this stuff. Called a good friend that is a union painter, but on buildings, to see if he would come over and help with the masking and what not. He agreed so I am ordered a 6 pack of blue and decided to do my wheels. By the way my car is Monterey Blue, hence blue wheels.
Pics of car before Plasti-Dip:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-02105254.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-02105313.jpg
Start of taping out the wheel:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-09142709.jpg
Lugs nuts done for one wheel:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-09142726.jpg
Trim around the center cap with lug nuts:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-09202009.jpg
Finished taping and started spraying:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-09155258.jpg
Finished product on back rear:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-09201944.jpg
Between taping/masking, spraying everything, then scoring and removal of the tape took around 5hrs for one corner. After doing one we decided to proceed with doing the other three tomorrow. Should finish around 7pm-ish if we start around 9am(will go faster). Will have pics of the car outside completely done tomorrow hopefully. Wanted to do something different, hadnt seen the wheels done this way, but also didnt go through all 40 something pages in thread so I could be wrong. Will also be doing the strut bar and plenum cover where it is silver.

So I took the dip off this morning. I have determined I don't like this product. I'm sure it's great for some but not for me. Anyone standing at a normal distance can tell it's basically rubber on your car. The edges don't peel as clean as they look in the pics. My 3 in 370Z WILL NOT peel right, it always peels up on to the lettering. I'm going to try to use a paint brush with the plasti dip to touch it up. All said I think it would have been easier to just take the emblems off and spray paint them. I'm going to keep the plasti dip on for now, assuming the paint brush touch up works, but I'll likely end up buying new emblems that are pre measured and paint them black. I suppose as a temp solution it's ok though.

Also, if you wax your car, it gets in your wax. Which sucks. Guess imma be the only one with a bad experience with it.

japanjay you have any more pics of the finished product?

Nope, just woke up. Need coffee and then get crackin on the next three wheels. Will have pics later tonight though.

Also sprayed the front license plate mount:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-10143603.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-10143616.jpg
Completed:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-10174318.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-10174338.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-10174348.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-10174418.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...4-10174432.jpg

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looks like blue tape on the wheels....lol

What have you done ????? please GOD HELP ME !!!!

Nice pic guys. Tonybui your pics are probably the most insteresting. The rims will be seen for miles away big guy.

Japanjay that's definately being different!

It's prolly a PITA but if u blaked out the silver on the rims that would make that blue really pop! IMO :tiphat:

Very unique :tup:

It took 2 full days to do it and was a PITA. I got at least 10 people yesterday that rolled down the window at stop lights and complimented about the cars wheels and how the car was gorgeous. Now is the trial time to see how it holds to dirt, washing and time in general. Seems to hold to the force of the wheels spinning at high speeds, which was a concern.

I like it. But as mentioned here I think if you do black against the blue it will look better. Something about blue against the silver is not appealing imo. But hey its your car. do as you please. :tiphat:

curious, has anyone tried clear plasti dip as an alternative to a clearbra?

I don't think that would be a good idea just because of the texture of plasti dip. It's not a smooth clean texture like a clear bra would be. The texture causes it to trap more dirt and stuff and be much harder to clean.

Thats what I figured, just wasn't sure if the clear was different somehow. Do you think clear plasti dip over the front and rear burger emblems would match the handles/370z emblems? I hate that they're polished when everything else is satin.

Not too sure about that.

I think I'm going to try this.

PlastiDip Car - Clear PlastiDip Over Chrome Makes Brushed Aluminum! - YouTube

Cool post pics once you're done :tup:

Alright guys, so I ordered a can of the Clear Plasti-Dip from dipyourcar.com, and used it on the front and rear Nissan emblems in order to give them a brushed look to be closer inline with the 370z emblem, wheels, and handles. I think they turned out pretty good. Pardon for the crappy phone pics. I can take better ones if requested.

Rear
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-A...430_194626.jpg

Rear with comparison to 370z emblem
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a...1329/photo.jpg

Front
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-d...430_194645.jpg

They don't quite have the same "sheen" as the rest of the metal, but I think its better than the chrome. I'm thinking about putting a coat of plasti dip glossifier to see if I can perfect the desired effect. In the meantime I'm going to try this on the stock chrome exhaust tips when I have time.

Also, a couple notes if you try this yourself:
This appears to be slightly different from the black plasti dip, in that if you apply to much at a time little white bubbles will appear and it will dry like that. Looks like crap. Be sure to do very light coats. I used the videos from dipyourcar.com, and did the light first coat, four times, and I think they turned out great. I discovered this way after attempting and failing twice on the front and once on the rear. The third and second times were a charm. :tiphat:

hehe maybe cuz it's a phone pic but I can't see too much of a difference :icon17:

I mean there's a small noticeable one.. but seems like a lot of effort for it :tiphat:

Take higher res pics maybe? :p

dipyourcar.com, who would of thought!

Checked out the sight, it looks like they have plstidip smoke. I think I am going to order some and try to lightly smoke my headlightas and tail lights, if it doesnt look good then I will just peel it off.

I'll save you a few bucks. Looks horrible on the lightss. Its more of a gray smoke as opposed to a black smoke.

PlastiDip Smoke - Review on Tail Lights and Chrome - DipYourCar.com - YouTube

You can't see the difference? Maybe I'm just a stickler for the details? :confused: picture of stock emblem
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog....ssan-badge.jpg

Nice. Anyone tried the roof with glossifier? I have my emblems plasti dipped

Looks like the clear plasti dip worked well :tup:

Tried it and it was a complete fail. Don't waste your time trying :tiphat:

Thanks for that. I think I will pass.

That's an obvious difference! I like it! You basically took the glitteriness out! Looks tight. :)

Yeah I figured it wouldn't work. Thanks for the reassurance!