This Plasti Dip product is Awesome!

kenchan

hey thanks. GL with your project!


in my area it's 125-150 per wheel to fix and paint. if you're willing to pay that, great.

Random Strata

I must be getting jacked on my quotes. I was curious about having my wheels and door handles color matched to my car. $1000, provided I take the wheels and door handles off the car for them. I also decided to find out about tinting my rear windows and a very light tint to my tail lights. $600. So any DIY stuff like Plasti Dip wins out IMO. The only thing I don't like is the feel on the door handles, too plasticy (That's not a word but you know what I'm getting at).

FYI for anyone doing this, make sure you start EARLY in the day if you're going to do your wheels as it will take several hours and painting in the dark SUCKS.

b1adesofcha0s

No you are definitely getting ripped off there. There was a local member who wanted to get his door handles painted so he bought an extra set and gave it to the body shop, who did it for like $100-200 I think. I had my tail lights tinted with vinyl for $100 and then later had them painted for the same amount by a body shop. There was a slight discount for the tail lights, but I don't think it should be more than around $150-200 or so if you take them out of the car and give them to the shop. If the shop is going to have to do labor to take them out and put them back in, it's a different story, but still seems pricey even with labor.

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b1adesofcha0s

Yeah I'm definitely not paying that much. Actually I did paint my brake calipers and they turned out pretty well.




Just in case you're wondering, here is that aftermath of the tire change

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Footloose301

Geez. You put the tires on with a potato?!

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b1adesofcha0s

Ghetto tire shop. Do I need to say anything else?

I have gotten all the plasti dip off my wheels and they are finally back to stock color. Had to use goo gone to get all of it off and it worked amazingly well.

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b1adesofcha0s

I might try to do it on Sunday if I have time. How many cans of primer, paint, and clear do you think I will need? I think 1-2 cans of primer, 2-3 of paint, and 1-2 of clear might be good.

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Huck

Going on the powder coat subject, I've been thinking about getting my base rims done in a gunmetal color, then doing the protruding edge on each of the 5 spokes in a white. I have to try to shop up some pics to get a visual.


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b1adesofcha0s

Yeah a photoshop might help, but the way I'm imagining it in my head is not so good. I say just leave the wheels all gunmetal and they'll look pretty awesome.

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2ndChance

After painting my handles 3 times.. I decided plastidip is not the best option for durability... So I removed it and used primer+paint matte black spray instead, it looks smoother and it can be retouched anytime. As for durability it seems to be more scratch resistant than plastidip.

b1adesofcha0s

Pics of the handles? This is pretty much the same conclusion I've reached about plasti dip. Going to be doing the same thing with my wheels soon. Should be much easier to clean as well.

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Huck

Yeah I've reached the same conclusion. Plastidip is a good, cheap, temporary solution to keep me happy till I can afford my carbon fiber pieces.

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b1adesofcha0s

I think plasti dip is good only to get an idea of how something will look before you make a permanent change. I think badges/emblems might be the only thing you can keep plasti dip on for a long time without issues. I've moved on from plasti dip to paint.

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Huck

The thing that I still like about it is that it's a good protectant for your paint. There's been a couple times on the highway where a rock hit my fangs, but didn't do any damage because of the plastidip.

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b1adesofcha0s

When I was pulling the plasti dip off my wheels, some of the parts that had gotten really hot took some of the wheel's original finish off with it. I'll take a pic of it tomorrow to show you guys what I'm talking about. This might have to do with my new brake set up though since it seems to get much hotter than the stock setup. I installed Carbotech XP8's a month ago and also took my car on a track session. Guess some parts of my wheels got a bit too hot at some point there.

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