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Old Jun 1, 2011 | 02:16 PM
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So instead of painting the berger panel, I plasti-dipped it instead.







Turned out pretty well, I need to add some more under the tail lights, but that can wait until i need to take it off again, next week, when I get a couple of gallons of orange plasti-dip to do the whole car.....oh joy to be bored.

Best part about it, if i eff up or it looks like crap, I can just power wash it right off.
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Old Jun 1, 2011 | 02:49 PM
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Isn't that stuff the rubber coating?
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Old Jun 1, 2011 | 03:42 PM
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Isn't that stuff the rubber coating?
yeah, pretty much....my paint looks like **** and i'm using this as a temporary fix, it's way easier than effing up an actual paint job....it's supposed to be super durable, so this is more experimental than anything.

most people do grilles or wheels, i'm doing the whole thing.....my only concern would be keeping it clean, but apparently that's not an issue.

i should only need a gallon of the stuff, so for $70, i may have a more durable and more easily removed pj.

we'll see though....
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Old Jun 1, 2011 | 04:23 PM
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wait, your ging to paint your entire car with Plasti-Dip?
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Old Jun 1, 2011 | 08:27 PM
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He is joking about the entire car. A lot of c5 corvette guys use it on their filler panels or in a mod similar to a ceta mod
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Old Jun 2, 2011 | 10:17 AM
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i'm not joking. ;D

don't get me wrong, this is just going to be temporary....let the flaming begin.
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It looks good though.
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Old Jun 2, 2011 | 05:47 PM
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Make sure to polish and wax the hell out of anything before you Plasti-Dip. If you don't, the Plasti-Dip is hard to remove. Also, take as many panels off or mask as well as possible (since it'd be a bitch to extract the PD from the body gaps). Also I don't know where you got the idea that it's durable, but it's not. It fades fairly quickly from UV/outdoor exposure.

A G35 owner did his whole car in matte black plasti-dip. He let it stay on for a few months during the winter. Used it kind of like a spray-on bra.

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hmmm, that's an even better idea.....i'm waiting for the pd still, backordered 'til june 9.....shizzle.

not sure where i got the durablility idea, a lot of people wrote that about it, guess i'll find out soon enough lol.
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I went out looking for some plasti-dip this weekend for my wheels to see if i like it before i had them coated but failed tragically. Couldnt find any anywhere.
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Old Jun 6, 2011 | 03:05 PM
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I found mine at home depot in the spray paint section....the orange i ordered online.
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Old Jun 23, 2011 | 05:33 PM
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So, it's been over two weeks... Update?
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Have you painted the car yet??!!
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I have a ram air hood for my car that I don't plan on painting for a very long time (because spending $2k to have the whole front clip resprayed isn't in the budget for me, since it's a 120k mile 12 month a year driver) so I sprayed it with plasti-dip today

I'm going to do a black hood, black sail panel (which I was going to do anyway) and probably black ceta on my blue car, it might look ghetto for a while but probably won't look worse than my chipped up stock flat hood and bubbled-so-bad-i-had-to-duplicolor-it-not-matching-blue-sail-panel
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i wana see this plasti ip Orange car man
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