R56 Plasti Dip Mini
#26
This says it all. Great story of why plasti-dipping a whole car is nonsense
http://www.forteforums.com/forums/do...-thing-do.html
http://www.forteforums.com/forums/do...-thing-do.html
i can only bet hes been loosing money since plastidip became popular...and therefore he is hardly the most unbiased source.
we also dont know if the guy with the suburau used actual plastidip or some other type of rubberized coating like under-chassis spray.
given the fact that there are thousands of people dipping their cars, and only a hand full of posts about people having issues.....ide be willing to bet that plastidip is perfectly safe for your car.
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This says it all. Great story of why plasti-dipping a whole car is nonsense
http://www.forteforums.com/forums/do...-thing-do.html
http://www.forteforums.com/forums/do...-thing-do.html
Last edited by yetti96; 08-20-2013 at 04:41 AM.
#31
I'd love Mr. Melangell to give an actual reason for his condescending attitude about this subject. I mean other than it being a new fad among all the other stupid trends right now, it works. If applied correctly, its easily removable, it is durable, and its available in many colors and even now has gloss and metallic options.
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I'd love Mr. Melangell to give an actual reason for his condescending attitude about this subject. I mean other than it being a new fad among all the other stupid trends right now, it works. If applied correctly, its easily removable, it is durable, and its available in many colors and even now has gloss and metallic options.
In 5 months the house I'm renting will be sold and I'll lose access two two garages but I'm looking for another place with a empty garage. If my environment lets me I'll probably be picking up my own gun. I always liked the matte green with a gloss and I might spray my whole car. If I don't like the color I change it for 75 bucks. If I don't like the overall outcome I'm out 250 dollars.
As someone else said earlier I think the vinyl shops are writing most of the biased articles. I can't blame them. The article the vinyl shop posted on those other forums showed a horrible example. It looked liked the customer mixed too much thinner and only did two coats so it wouldn't peel off right and was too thin. You're supposed to apply 4-5 coats so it looks better and the removal process is easier. And he was talking about it chipping as well. Vinyl chips, paint chips, plastidip chips. I bought my 2013 cooper s in January and have found 4 chip spots on the bumper and bonnet already :( That's the price I pay for living is West Palm Beach Florida and driving on I-95.
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so just because i was curious....and because i was looking of r a change, i removed the plasti-dip i had on my hood scoop for the past 5 months(which is about the same time as the guys in the link with the subaru).....
the plastidip was put on back in march, and spent its life sitting out in the sun, and being cooked by the turbo....so if anything was going to "dry out" and "become brittle"...it would be the plastidip i had on my scoop....
i sprayed 4 layers of dip and 3 layers of glossifier.........the plsatidip peeled right off....no issues.....and the paint underneath looked as good as when i sprayed it on back in march.
......so yeah....those claiming that plastidip will 'ruin your paint'....and 'you will have a hard time getting it off after a while'......im not buying it......so please stop trying to scare people.
the plastidip was put on back in march, and spent its life sitting out in the sun, and being cooked by the turbo....so if anything was going to "dry out" and "become brittle"...it would be the plastidip i had on my scoop....
i sprayed 4 layers of dip and 3 layers of glossifier.........the plsatidip peeled right off....no issues.....and the paint underneath looked as good as when i sprayed it on back in march.
......so yeah....those claiming that plastidip will 'ruin your paint'....and 'you will have a hard time getting it off after a while'......im not buying it......so please stop trying to scare people.
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Very nice cars. I'm getting the pro car kit myself for use later this year. Did your friends who painted their whole car use the dipyourcar.com spray guns or other guns to spray? I'm ready for my first attempt to look like crap lol.
#44
The trick to have a great job is to prepare the surface very well..
And apply thin coats and a lot of them, the more coats u put, the easier it will be to remove it after
#45
There are many words I could use to describe these, but I know one word that I couldn't- Classy. Silly stuff for sure.
#46
While ill admit, super slammed cars aren quite my style, they are super clean and look very well 'composed'....
No need to hate on someone else's car because it isn't your style.
#47
You can make your opinion known without double quoting pictures :/ Vinyl had kind of the same effect when it first came out. It was cheaper than it is now because it took a while for companies like 3M to have their part in it. Now it seems to be "acceptable" in the car world. I feel plastidip will have the same outcome eventually. It really seems to almost **** people off.
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You can make your opinion known without double quoting pictures :/ Vinyl had kind of the same effect when it first came out. It was cheaper than it is now because it took a while for companies like 3M to have their part in it. Now it seems to be "acceptable" in the car world. I feel plastidip will have the same outcome eventually. It really seems to almost **** people off.
Knowing body work and finishing, it was "No, you can't just take a ratte can and shoot a coating over a glossy, unprepped surface and have it look right, stick, or stay".... then I tried the stuff on all my chrome trim. Cleaned it all up nicely, sprayed the parts with multiple light coats and it worked perfect, laid quite flat, and has held up great.
All and all, when done correctly, this stuff looks/works exactly as advertised.
#49
When I see such visceral reactions to people's project cars, I know they're doing something right. Keep it up OP!
It's a bit of a stretch, and at the risk of hyperbole, the following is a list of classical debuts that caused riots:
1830 – Daniel Auber – La muette de Portici (opera, sparked the Belgian Revolution)[1]
1838 – Hector Berlioz – Benvenuto Cellini[2]
1861 - Richard Wagner - Tannhäuser (opera) (The Paris Opera premiere)
1905 – Richard Strauss – Salome (particularly the 1907 Metropolitan Opera production in New York)
1913 - Alban Berg - Altenberg Lieder[3]
1913 – Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring (ballet)[4][5]
1913 – Francesco Balilla Pratella – Musica Futurista[6]
1917 – Erik Satie – Parade (ballet)[7]
1923 – Edgard Varèse – Hyperprism[8]
1924 – George Antheil – Ballet Mécanique
1926 – Béla Bartók – The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet)[9]
1954 - Edgard Varèse – Déserts
1968 – Hans Werner Henze – Das Floß der Medusa[10]
1973 - Steve Reich - "Four Organs" [11][12]
It's a bit of a stretch, and at the risk of hyperbole, the following is a list of classical debuts that caused riots:
1830 – Daniel Auber – La muette de Portici (opera, sparked the Belgian Revolution)[1]
1838 – Hector Berlioz – Benvenuto Cellini[2]
1861 - Richard Wagner - Tannhäuser (opera) (The Paris Opera premiere)
1905 – Richard Strauss – Salome (particularly the 1907 Metropolitan Opera production in New York)
1913 - Alban Berg - Altenberg Lieder[3]
1913 – Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring (ballet)[4][5]
1913 – Francesco Balilla Pratella – Musica Futurista[6]
1917 – Erik Satie – Parade (ballet)[7]
1923 – Edgard Varèse – Hyperprism[8]
1924 – George Antheil – Ballet Mécanique
1926 – Béla Bartók – The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet)[9]
1954 - Edgard Varèse – Déserts
1968 – Hans Werner Henze – Das Floß der Medusa[10]
1973 - Steve Reich - "Four Organs" [11][12]