Time for the painted wheelbarrow pictures. I'll discuss my experience after an explanation of the photos.
1. Shows the water beading capabilities, thank you hurricane Irene.
2. Is after a quick drying. Notice the line between the plain Plastidip and the part sprayed with enamel and clear coat.
3. Just another angle.
4. My initial scuff mark.
5. Peeling a piece back.
6. After about one minute of effort.
7. The average size piece that was coming off.

The paint job looked really good. Other than some dust that settled on it while drying, it looked like a pretty decent finish. It was smooth, much like the paint on a car, so it didn't have any of the feeling of plain Plastidip. I bounced a rock off it with no damage. I didn't try throwing it at 45 or 50mph, like highway speeds, so I can't tell you about how well it would hold up to that.
The removal was a bit slow. As you can see, I didn't manage to get any pieces larger than my fingertip. If I attempt to remove the entire amount that I painted, I may develop a better technique and get bigger pieces.

Conclusion: I think it would look good on the car when covered with regular paint and clear coat...just be prepared for some work if/when you decide to remove. Long term quality is assumed to be pretty good.

Lol good R&D +1

Going to experiment with Plasti-Dip for the first time next week! Gulp kinda nervous as I've never painted anything before. Comforting knowing that you could peel it right off if you messed up :icon17:

Dont be nervous. Mask it off really good. I also suggest a day or two of dry time before you remove the masking. Like you said if you mess up or dont like it you can just peel it off. It really is that simple. Have no fear, paint away!

Uploaded a new video for you guys wanting to Plasti Dip your wheels.

What did u use to clean the area before spray it?

thanks

Just plasti-dipped my sunglasses, my xbox, and my android phone case. :)

When peeling it off of my wheels I tried about 6 different techniques.

What works the best:
- A standard micro fiber rag works
- Having a hose with a constant flow of water assisting removal.
- WD40 definitely does something to the plasti-dip to make it fall apart. Just be careful what you use it on. Worked fine on my wheels.
- Once it is up, you may or may not have a mess of plasti-dip particles, Stainless Metal Polish works MAGIC, it just wipes this stuff away perfectly.

What didn't work:
- Any household cleaning product, needs heavy duty car spec cleaning products.
- Anything but a standard micro fiber rag worked terribly. A micro fiber fluffy thing failed miserably, paper towels, etc etc, they all suck.

Recommendations:
- Use a hose and your hands. The water really hardens up the plastic and it makes for removing bigger pieces much easier, also it cleans up the area much better and you will have virtually no mess in the end. For those places that the hose and yours hands can't do so well, just use the microfiber rag and maybe MAYBE some WD40, but you'll have to clean up in the end with the Stainless Metal Polish.

Do you think the WD40 would penetrate the clear coat and enamel enough to have an effect on the Plastidip?

Dude that's awesome! Ima forward this to a friend that's really interested in doing his wheels! It looks really quite good too! :tup:

You mean if you painted over plastidip? I think it should work if you let it sit and saturate for a minute.

Has anyone tried this with their brake calipers? I'm thinking red...

I would not recommend trying it. This stuff is not rated for nearly a high enough temperature for that.

This stuff is rated to 200F. Brakes are going to exceed 400F during a normal drive.

Don't think thats a good idea as they get really hot, don't want a melting rubber mess do you?

Please let me know how well this stuff holds on wheels, I might have to black mine out, thanks !!!

Don't do that. Few cars caught fire due to use of bad paint on brake calipers. It was nothing serious, but still nothing nice to happen on your Z.

:iagree: Plasti-dipping Calipers is a bad idea. Do at your own risk... :ugh2:

Directly from the can: EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE

Thats a good enough warning for me... :ugh2:

It holds on wheels perfectly fine. I just like my stock wheels better than black. It made the Nismo look $15,000 cheaper....

Unless you ever drive your car. Your rims will easily exceed 200F

I know but I'm being a cheap *** and I like black wheels haha
If i don't like it, I can just peel off

tongman- now you got same color wheels on both sizes? the hell's your problem?! :mad:

just kidding. :icon17: :tup: GJ!

Tons of people do rims with this stuff. You should have no problems. I have yet to hear of temps being a problem on wheels.

Yep I did it. Gonna see how well Plasti Dip holds up on wheels.

It gets 110 degrees plus around here and theres insane humidity and heat index and I drive hard and the plasti dip held up fine on the wheels. I'm pretty sure it can handle more than 200 degrees. I want to say 225.

what about -56C?

I just finished Plasti Dipping my chrome pieces...looks great. Thanks to Tongman for giving me the courage to take a sprayer to my car. Now for the wheels, I have the Rays forged rims,they look tremendous as they are, but I am curious as to how they would look Plastidipped. Oh the hamsters in my brain are a'churnin. BTW, great to be actually on the forum now....I have been lurking way too long.

^^^thanks for the acknowledgment.

I sprayed my Nismo rays. Then one week later I went back to stock. Like I said, it just makes the car look $15,000 cheaper.

On track we see rotor temps around 1200F...seeing 600 or so on a windy road is common. The IR gun showed 800f temps on rotors at zdayz. Even with the relatively weak thermocouple, the rims were consistently at 400+ afterwards. It's not much of a stretch to see 300+ on a back road.

Don't end up this guy

Plastic dip SI rims a month later - YouTube

I think I'm going to stay stock for now. These rims are just too gorgeous to rush a decision. If I end up doing it, perhaps a powder coat would be safer considering the temps that these wheels get up to.

why? his rims look fine

That's how the rims look a day after the fact as well. I wasn't joking when I said it made the car look $15,000 less.

Those rims look fine to me. I don't understand the minus $15,000 comment.

Well I just got mine done today and they do look plastic and fake hahaha but then I like black wheels !!

Powdercoating FTW!

Did my emblems today! look ok But thats as far as it gets with this cheap stuff.

Because of the cheap plastic black wheels look it makes the car itself look cheaper.

I suppose that's your opinion.

Roomate did it on his Jeep SRT8 (which costs significantly more than a Nismo) and has gotten nothing but compliments on it. Co-worker did it on his M3, and it looks great. I have spray painted (Satin black) base wheels and everyone seems to like them a lot. Have yet to hear anyone say that it makes any of these cars look $10 cheaper, much less $15,000.

If you're the flashy type, flat black wheels in general aren't for you, regardless of the costs.