Eidson82

Hello everyone! New to the club and I thought I'd ask what everyone thought about Plasti Dip? it's an idea that has been going around my office at work and I'm not sure if I wanted to attempt it or not.

Legot

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Everybody hates it and it's very (very very very very) rarely done well. When done well it's applied the same way as car paint, rather than from the spray cans, and even then it's usually pretty bad.

Steve Dallas

Plasti Dip is a disease. Please don't spread it.

Eidson82

Yeah, the more I read up on it the more bad reviews I get. What would you guys recommend to do? I really just planned on coloring the rims black and maybe the door handles and some other "highlights".

LiveWire

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This will probably start a flame war but w/e. Yes, at least over half of the time you see it, it does look bad. I have seen it done fine plenty of times. People ask me all the time if my roof is wrapped, and they are amazed when I say it is dipped. If you rush through the process the results will show the lack of effort.

Don't use a spray can and avoid dipping wear and tear items like wheels, bumpers, etc. Things like accents, wings, etc are the better application for it. And no, it will not bake into your paint or anything. Put heavy coats on from the start and the stuff will peel off fine.

IMO you should listen to the people who are overly for it, nor overly against it. Biases tend to twist facts.

Eidson82

Honestly, I was going to try it out on a soda can just to see how it looks. I have a buddy of mine that use to do paint detail work on cars who was going to help me with it so I know it would be done right. I know there are other products to use, Plasti Dip just seems to be the most talked about

ax75f92

I was curious about it for wheels too, since powder coating is no good.

Legot

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In what way is powder coating worse than plastidip for wheels?

LiveWire

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Here are your powder coating problems:

"There's 2 issues - regular powders are heated to a temp which may affect the heat treatment of cast wheels, which would weaken them. You can get low temp powders, though. That doesn't get around the second issue, that powder coating can hide developing cracks that you'd otherwise be able to see on a painted wheel. "

I would not plastidip wheels, it will easily get banged up from road debris.

ax75f92

^^^ Yup. I've had friends develop cracks on powder coated wheels. After seeing that I don't want anything to do with it.