I just took off my plasti dip today.
What a pain!!!! ****en bs

I DON'T RECOMMEND ANYONE (not even my enemy) to plasti dip.

Please do ur self a favor and save ur money.

 

Plasti-dip is really hard to remove if you put too thin of a layer on.

I don't think it looks too bad if you do it right, and use it in moderation. At most I understand maybe dippin your emblems/grill/door handles/interior trim fix/etc, but actually doing the ENTIRE car, I think it will be really hard to make it look good, especially if you are DIY'n it in small amounts.

Mainly because the color will change depending on how thick/thin the layer is, so if you are not experienced in doing it, it can look pretty bad when you are covering large areas.

 

Sounds like it'll look good for about 10 minutes, then you'll drive around and rock chips will ruin it in no time flat. Removal will be a pain. The only people saying "do it" are those who have never done it. Not worth it.

 

I've experimented a bit with it. I ended up spraying the back *** of the car with it and some fender stripes for a track day. The temperature outside was a little too hot and I got a lot of texture on the back end. I sprayed the fender stripes much closer and much faster since they were taped off. They came out really great actually, very smooth, nice lines.

The stripes were easy to remove as the dip was rather thick, I should have used more on the edges of the rear because the middle came off in a big chunk like its supposed to, but the edges took a little rubbing with microfiber cloth. Overall I probably spent an hour removing it.

I did plastip my wheels since they were pretty oxidized and trashed from the previous owners not caring for them. They look great and have held up well since May or so. I'll probably mess around with the wheels a bit more and spray more on top of the black, just so when i take it off it will be easy.

So I guess my advice is take it slow, do small things first, figure out how the plastidip works and the best way to spray it. It dries fast so you have to take things like ambient temperature, spray distance, humidity, etc, into account so that you dont have it partially drying in the air before it makes contact with the painting surface. This is what causes the texture.

Call it what you want, but I havent had one person say anything but positive things about my wheels.

 

great review with solid points!
I've always wanted to try this stuff on my wheels because of curb rash, think it would fill it in?

And to play devils advocate to the last part of your post, I hear this comment a lot from guys about their cars:

"I only get compliments"
or
"No one has said a bad thing about them"

Just take a minute and think over those two sayings (not you specifically, everyone), do you think 90% of people are going to randomly tell you that your wheels/car looks like crap? No, they'll compliment you sarcastically or say nothing, and then laugh at you later.

An unfortunate truth about people, sure, but a truth never the less. As such, using this completely flawed reasoning to tell if a mod is 'good' or not is completely nuts. It either looks good or it doesn't.

 

Lol, well I guess you dont know the car guys I hang out with.
They would most definitely say something if it looked like crap. Although, they did look like crap beforehand with the bit oxidation they had. So I guess even textured plastidip would have been an upgrade.

But I feel that if you do this at a decent temperature, 70's and such, and dont spray from far away theres not much to it.


Although to be honest, the everyday joe and a decent number of car people dont know about plastidip anyway, so I doubt unless it looks like a real travesty anybody would say anything negative.

 

Good point. And yeah I have a good few car buddies similar, come to think of it, myself being one at times with those that I know.

 

I did this to my Toyota Celica. Someone ripped it off when I was parked in a college parking lot.

I might two tone it because the paint sucks. But people can be *******s.

I warn you it doesn't look like real paint close up, it's more textured.

 

It's going to look like my toilet the day after a long night of dollar drafts

 

If you paint over the plastidip, it literally looks like clear. I can post up some pictures of my ride, but I typically plastidip in white, then paint over, then clear (on my wheels). It is INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT to remove that way, which is both a good, and a bad thing. No rock chips (it even held up to having new tires mounted) but when you want to change colors you have to set out a whole week to change it. Not too bad considering I pay $20 everytime I change and I can change as often as I like. You must lay down a fairly thick layer of plasti dip, but only enough that the color is "solid". Most things you're plasti dipping aren't white, so it's pretty easy to tell. This layer peels up very easily. You can either clear right over the plasti dip (which will still look like plastidip, if that's your thing). Or you can paint it white/any color in the world you want. I've had people come up to me asking where I got them powdercoated. It seriously looks just like regular paint, with the same glossy shine.