eklips3

here is my girlfriends fc. the car is a bit dirty cause we were scared to wash the car after we finished with the plasti-dip lol.
took about 30 cans

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SLiDe_WaYz

So let me get this straight. You want to plasti dip over a nice paint job, changing the color of the car, doesn't that defeat the purpose of having a nice paint job. What the fuck are you protecting it for if no one can see it.

I like how you say it's been dipped several times. Lets say 3 times, that's $1200 wasted to "protect" your paint.

I can understand if it were clear and you could still see your nice new paint job. But why in the fuck would you cover it in a different color. That is the stupidest thing I've ever read. It makes zero sense what so ever.

Your calling us stupid? Yet that makes no sense.

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Corbic

I don't see that is any better than spray paint. Also, I'd love to see one of these cars go through a car wash.


30 cans × $7 = $210. You can buy real paint for that.

TheZ31Guy

Holy shit you hard headed 240 douchebags are not getting the point..

Tried to teach but these ass wipes don't think logically LOL..
I guess bitch ass mother fuckers don't like change at all. Sad really..

madman's240

You gotta look at it from a different stand point how often do u track your car I know every time I go I always find small scrathes and scuffs so what options do u have tape the most common areas that gets hit I personally dont like that look. So instead of taping it you could just plastidip it and protect it and for aslong as u want after that till u get bored of the color so u peel it off and wash the car thencboom u still have nice clean paint that didn't take any abuse.

Also how often do u get bored with the look of your car paint wise or wonder what your car would look like this color or that color plastidip gives u the ability to change the look of your car without damaging the good paint and u can go back to the original color or if your doing bodywork to your car but dontb have the money to get a legit paint job right away u can plastidip it till u have the money to paint it. And not have a multicolor shitbox while u save.

Everbody has there own opinions and taste so u dont have to like it but dont give people shit for liking it. This is pretty much just like any other car mod you may love it amd other people dont and just the opposite a ton of people may love this body kit or wheel But u may not like it. It called personalities without them the world would very boring

new2sr20

I used plasti dip on the grill on my G37, but thats about it. I wouldnt plasti dip a car cause its just not my thing. If im gonna change the color of my car id rather vinyl wrap it then spray plasti dip all over it. Or if im gonna be dead set on a color, ill paint it since i have experience and resources to do so.

HOWEVER, some of these plasti dipped cars dont look terrible, so I wont bash them for it. Its different...but its not any more gay then drilling holes in ur fenders or bumper just so u can cross stitch with zip ties, or the missile car fad..which we all know is just a way to cover up the fact u keep fucking up ur DD because u think you can drift and dont have the money to keep it looking proper.

KiLLeR2001

You know that's the dumbest shit I ever heard? That's like spending years building a car and then going "oh well I'm not going to drive it because I spent so much time building it and making it nice". Completely pointless. Cars are meant to be driven. Paint is meant to be shown. You want to protect paint, take care of it with the appropriate products. The paint on my two-tone is the original paint from 24 years ago, and it still looks like it just rolled off the factory line. Let's see plasti-dip do that.

LOL. Thanks for the laugh.

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new2sr20

Im with this guy..please send noods...

KiLLeR2001

I mean seriously, whats next? Are they going to liquefy horseshit and then sell it as an applicable paint?

"This just in! A new textured matte brown paint, and it's 100% biodegradable! Protect your paint with some of our fine horseshit paint today!"

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new2sr20

I take it you got the memo. The reason they went from cow shit to horse shit is because of California emissions laws..something to do with methane and matches..

kalypso123

Why get a 2500 paint job, and then cover it with plasti dip.

Slide_Ways made this point already.....

ManoNegra

the pro and against fanatics are equally stupid
while I don't necessarily love it,
it's still a better option than a mis-matched-rattle canned car

and a shitty prepped car - dings, dents, scratches, etc - will look like shit whether dipped or sprayed.

haters gonna...

Otaku

It's nice as a temporary paint job...

Note... temporary.

Being in the military away from home all the time, I'm constantly working on the damn thing and it just sits in storage until I get back to it. The mis-colors was an eye-sore.

http://i.imgur.com/FwjAd.jpg

Then I plastidipped since it was a cheap 100$ temp... TEMP fix.

http://i.imgur.com/7Q1dL.jpg

She still waits in the garage until my OEM headlights come in and when I get enough money for some real wheels. (I refuse to buy knockoffs) The VQ30DE-T build really set me back.

So please people, use it for a temp fix to mismatched body panels until you get a real paint job.

madman's240

Well lets see how many contest has your car one the sky was dipped green and within 48hrs it won a contest that had been going on over a month and we entered it the last Two-days just to see what would happen and it blew past the supra that was winning because the sky had more personality than the supra and the public liked it more

DMartS14kaT

Not necessarily true....if its done correctly and not by cans like someone said you wouldnt know the difference.
I'm pretty sure if you seen a well done job with the proper mixture of the paint you wouldn't be downing the product/platidip. I didn't get a chance to get the hard-drive of the vehicles that are completed but heres a photo of an Aston. (And thats a crappy camera phone)

uraznfriend

the paint on that van in the back looks better than that aston martin


i just really hate that matte color shit

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DMartS14kaT

Yea I understand and respect your opinion but that sounds like a preference...your not a fan of the matte colors...but personally I have no clue y i am lol
Even the stock AMG matte colors and bmw have factory matte out and they honestly look hot.....i've never actually tried a gloss color on any of the vehicles just seem like everyones attracted to the matte look ...i'll def make it a must to test it to answer everyones questions and prob change the doubters/non- fans.
Deal?

zooopreme

This thread is a whole bunch of guys trying to shove their opinions into each other's throats.. Like every opinion thread, do whatever the fuck you want to do with your car. You will get what you paid for.

For plastidippers, plastidip is a cheap alternative to paint. Cheap and alternative are the key words. Why would you expect anything worth bragging about when you spent 60 bucks on a couple of cans of plastidip.

For anti-plastidippers, plastidip is not to replace real paint jobs so quit being quick to throw in your elitist card. It is an alternative for those that want a decent (at best) matte look on the cheaper end. Again, the key words are alternative and cheap.

I have seen plastidipped cars using the supplied applicator and NOT the spray cans. It gives the car a matte look without too much prep and looks decent. If quick matte paint jobs are your thing, go and get Plastidip.

I don't understand why this topic made it into 5 pages without that many pictures and lots of unnecessary talk.

cchondro

Destroyed a perfectly good looking car with that crap

DMartS14kaT

Definitely well said

IROYLE1

I will probably be forced to drive with JIGSAW mix matched body panels. As a temp solution (until i can afford a quality paint job) ill probably be doing this. I can see it being a good "paint saver" for a future resale. Assuming that it really doesn't affect the paint.
Now, if you spend the money on quality parts and you plan to stay with this as a permanent solution, that's foolish.

zooopreme

Lol, no. Your online sarcasm is absolutely terrible.

dizzariot

I just comment on these since I hate everyone equally. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

In conclusion: money spent on plastidip/applicator is just money you could have saved to do it right. This is a debate of patience.

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jamg

$150 > whatever you pay for paint. even the cheapest won't anywhere close to what you pay for plasti dip.

mr_eh

but... it doesn't look very good... so who cares how cheap it is... it's not an alternative to a paint job... also itonly lasts for 3 months before it looks like shit... so for a year it would cost 600$ to keep it "nice" looking...

if you have a nice paint job you aren't going to cover it in plasti dip to protect it thus making the car look like it was rattle canned..

I'm pretty sure I didn't spend 3500$ on my paint job to cover it with a rattle can to "protect it"

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jandysil80

...so much hate in here. Most of the cars on this forum are beaten down hunks of drift missile shit. Most of you should love it.

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Jed_Atreides

Love that Aston (and the Saturn too). Like the flat look too - but I'm not forcing others to like it. Whole thread is filled with pointless opinion forced onto another. So what? I dislike the WCW fake wrestling crap so I should make EVERYONE hate it too?

Aston is dipped as such, once the owner grows tired of that flat look, can peel the dip right off to the original paint in its original state. Paint flat black (or other dipped color) and go back to original paint? Show me how.

Hell, I'm thinking to plastic dip and metalize my Works rims to gun metal. Why? b/c it will look gun metal when I'm done, and when I'm tired of it, peel right off back to polished w/o having to spend hours on end to take that damn 3 piece wheel apart, sand it and repaint it. And if I screw up on the gun metal paint? Peel it off and do it again. Do I have to re-sand again and clean it? Nope! Am I lazy? Hell yes!

Just my 2 cents, reader's choice to agree or disagree, matters to me none.

Wrapped, dipped, painted, don't matter. All looks good to me.

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Corbic

Guess not huh.

Corbic

Obviously you have never been in a paint store. You can get miss-tints and canceled orders for NOTHING.

I got a gallon of reduced Ford silver to paint my engine bay for $20. It was a cancel, that's it. That could have really done 2 coats on a 240.

KevinEdgar

Had my car plastidipped for like a year or so. Worse idea ever... Shit would not come off.


Even though my car is way uglier than it was I still will never use plasti dip on my car again. Live and learn.

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