This Plasti Dip product is Awesome!

Japanjay

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:


Start of taping out the wheel:

Lugs nuts done for one wheel:

Trim around the center cap with lug nuts:

Finished taping and started spraying:

Finished product on back rear:

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.

Gauge

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.

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nmjaxx9

japanjay you have any more pics of the finished product?

Japanjay

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

Japanjay

Also sprayed the front license plate mount:


Completed:

tonybui

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

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scionide

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

MacLean

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

Three7D

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

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nmjaxx9

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.

cycy89

Very unique

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Japanjay

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.

bdavis89

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

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b1adesofcha0s

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.

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