Plasti-Dipped!

[JT_GTI]

My emblems have been plasti dipped for over a year, still look great.

 

[kmccrate]

I did my front symbol last night and rear's tonight. Taping everything off takes most of the time. Before taping off I just wiped everything down with some simple green and a damp wash cloth (trucks dirty from recent snow/salt), then dried it with a heat gun. I found using a heat gun in between coats really speeds up the drying time. Directions say wait 30 minutes between coats but with a heat gun you can pretty much do one coat after another. Plus I think it prevents any runs in the paint because it doesn't get time to run, if you put some low heat on it right after you spray it begins to dry immediately and practically self levels. Total time approx 2 hours per night.

It was dark in my garage when I took the pics so they're not that good, but it should give you an idea:

Looks great! How many coats did you do? Did you use a clear coat after the plasti-dip? Thanks

 

[kammando808]

i just did mines last week i sprayed 6 coats on each emblem and it came out nice, just wondering if anyone on here has a limited and sprayed their fenders,cladding and bumbers with plasit dip? thinking about doing mines to make it look a lil different

 

[Benjamn88]

I always see people talking about plasti dipping things on their runners....I'm still oblivious to what plasti dip is. I cant find any threads on how to plasti dip. Can someone tell me how to? does it come in a can? do you brush it on? where do you buy it? anything else you can tell me would be great. I want to plasti dip my front grill and possibly emblems.....

 

[Benjamn88]

I always see people talking about plasti dipping things on their runners....I'm still oblivious to what plasti dip is. I cant find any threads on how to plasti dip. Can someone tell me how to? does it come in a can? do you brush it on? where do you buy it? anything else you can tell me would be great. I want to plasti dip my front grill and possibly emblems.....

Nevermind....you tube just taught me. now i gotta figure out where to buy it

 

[Yoter]

Just some advice:

I have plastidipped my flares, bumper, and mudflaps.

The stuff gets stained. Every cleaner in the world wouldn't make these things clean again. I had to peel my stuff all the way and I have to redo it all, except, this time, I will clear coat with Krylon flat clear to give it that protection from bullshiit staining.

I Pastidipped my friends chrome bumpers, grill and wheels with him a year ago, he lives on the beach and it gets really stained by all the salt.
He asked multiple times what to do to keep it looking new, and I had no idea what to recommend.
A few weeks ago I noticed that all the Plastidip looked like new again, I asked him what he did and he said he used Armor-All to clean it. It makes sense being that it is rubber and it really cleaned up nicely for being a year old and living on the foggy Norcal coast. Cleaner isn't a good call because it will just dry it out but apparently Armor-All does the trick.

 

[liftedbrigade]

I plasti-dipped my rims and painted me calipers also. Stuff is great. I didn't take off the wheels when I did mine. I used playing cards like a few guys said. I found if you CAREFULLY take a box knife and run it along the outside of the rim, it stops it from possibly peeling all of it off.

I just put newspaper behind the rim spokes so it didn't get on the calipers or rotors or anything. Used 3 coats, then clear coated it with some chip resistant stuff i found at autozone. All in all I think it came out well. Really changed the look of the truck.

I also painted my calipers. just wipe it down with rubbing alcohol and let it dry. Then I used a heat resistant black as a base, then did 3 coats of yellow.

Sorry I don't really have a before picture.
Opinions? Questions?

 

[smkd13]

Lowes is a pretty good place to get it at apparently. It was like 6 bucks a can there

 

[4RunnerChaos]

i just did mines last week i sprayed 6 coats on each emblem and it came out nice, just wondering if anyone on here has a limited and sprayed their fenders,cladding and bumbers with plasit dip? thinking about doing mines to make it look a lil different

If I can, I'm plasti-dipping my whole truck(not really) but yeh I'm doing my bumper and the flares that go around my whole truck. Emblems and possibly even my hood x)
What to do? :3 might get plasti dip happy and see how it looks. I mean $8 a can?