Could you post a pic of that? My bumper is getting that notorious fade and it makes me angry haha

 

Brettly have you tried using some mothers back-to-black on it? Sometimes it does not work the best on older plastic(may take multiple coats), but its worth a try at least. It makes my plastic pieces on the car a deep black and I have seen some with older rx8s that the plastic looks brand new because of this stuff.

http://www.mothers.com/02_products/06108.html

 

I have a bottle of it in my garage, just never thought about it

 

I have thought about doing this to my back and front bumber/grille. Or even the side little plastic pieces those are fading as well. anywho here are some pictures from earlier today

Picture 1: After the first coat
2: After 3 coats
3/4: Final products

 

When it warms up I'm going to clean the car up and then take pics, just bare with me I am not sure when I will get to with the holidays coming up.

 

Sounds good! I would like to see what it looks like

 

When I was at the WHiV meet in may out here there were some people there with an older red rx8, not sure of the year but I am thinking 06 or older. Every single piece of black trim on that car looked better than mine and they had always used that back to black stuff. It looked better than my car and it was only a year old at that time.

 

Did you mask off right to the edge of the emblem? You don't need to do that. I left a square of ~2" around the emblem bare.

 

Ya I did just so I had a little less to clean up Haha

 

Sounds like some magical stuff!

 

has anyone thought of plasti dipping their trunk? I know some people like that style of the "black" trunk kinda like this --

http://media.photobucket.com/image/r...h_rx8trunk.jpg

Of course it wont turn out exactly like that but ive seen a user i think on this forum that plasti dipped the top of their rx8 and it turned out really good.

 

Yea that was in this thread even I think. Its possible, should be much easier since you can just remove the trunk.

 

I'm gonna re-do them at some point, didn't have the best turn out. Kind of thicker in some areas, and the edges didn't clean up too nicely. Ah well.

Any reason why my pics are just coming up as links, and not pics? Ugh.

Not picking up the img tags or something..

 

That looks good, never gonna be perfect for that 5.99 can

Curious how you got the stuff inbetween the lettering out though? toothpick or did you tape off the inside as well as around?

But if you scroll down the page a little when typing the "reply" there is a button that says "Manage Attachements" and you can browse files on your computer or enter that URL.

 

Yeah, I know there's that, but I'm feeling a tad lazy, haha. The links are there, good enough for me right now.

I actually used a plastic fork, and broke the two inner prongs, or whatever you wanna call them, off.

Hell, with it being a windy day today, I got overspray everywhere. It was halfway up my hood, wtf? We know who's getting clay barred soon, even though I washed it all off. Would've clay barred it today, but it was already getting dark, and approaching freezing.

Stupid winter.

Anywho, thank you.

 

Ya i used a toothpick...well like 20 of them (kept braking) i plan to do my back emblems as well just havent found the time cause im also feeling lazy lately haha

As you said overspray i had tons when i did my gas cap. When i washed my car i was able to scrub it off pretty easily and you cant even tell!

 

Yeah, I grabbed my bottle of quick detailer, a microfiber towel, and just went to town.

I initially thought about a toothpick, but I just figured a fork would be easier. Though, the toothpick might've been nicer for the much smaller areas. Well, something the size of one, only tougher.

 

On the inside of say the mazda emblem were you able to get it to come out nice and clean or did you have to pick at the parts that didnt come out initially? as in little parts of the plasti dip didnt peal off at first and had to gradually pick the pieces out

 

I had to pick at every single one of them, haha. I had no luck with that emblem, what so ever.

It, and the Rx8 ones are definitely 5-10 footers. Look their best then.

I was also getting a bit rushed peeling them then, as the temp had gone down by 10 degrees since I first started on the front emblem.

And when it's barely even 40 in the first place, and you're not dressed for that 10 degree difference.. Yeah.

 

ya i got annoyed with the little pieces so i started to stuff the extra down under the symbol to where you couldnt see it

 

Plasti-dip is amazing. I did the emblems and wheels. You just have to be patient with the peeling around the emblems. My turned out perfect, even with up close looks. Used 3 coats on everything.

I have since peeled it off the wheels. I will let you know before you decide to plasti-dip them, peeling it off the "rough" areas of the wheels is a bit tedious, but it does all come off eventually. I am talking about that whole area around the lug holes where its scuffed from the nuts, as well as around the center cap hole. I had to get a pair of tweezers and pick at it all

Done in smooth, even coats the emblems and wheels can turn out to look perfect.

 

@ lookitsjeremy ......How long does it last on your wheels? does it "chip" and peel from debris in the road? I was thinking about doing my wheels with it for the winter to protect them from rock salt

 

Nah you'll be good. I've had mine on since begginning of December. No chips nothing only two coats. Gonna add another coat and do it on the inside as well. Looks much cleaner.

 

I only had it on my wheels for a few days. I had painted them as it was getting dark out so I had poor lighting and some of the inner edges of the wheels didn't look so good. So I pulled it all off and will re-do it when I can spend more time doing it right.

 

has anybody been crazy enough to plasti dip the whole car? ... my car was key and well im thinking it might not look nice on the whole car.. just a crazy idea.