your car looks hella fresh.. quick question. does your front bumper scrape often? also what is it called?

 

Looks good, do you know if lowes or Home Depot carry this as a regular stock or is it special order?

 

is there a color code number to fix minor rash on 19" oem's? Would you suggest wet sanding? Rims look good!

 

I was going to go a lighter color on my rims (against DG paint) but looking at those, I now think that it looks way better in the black than I had thought it would. I have a wheel kit in GunMetal sitting at home waiting for me to get home from a work trip. If I don't like the GunMetal, I can always do a few coats in black.

 

It should still be removable with paint over it but it will be much harder to remove. It will likely come off in small patches versus being able to peel it off as an entire sheet. There are a few videos on YouTube showing paint over PlastiDip so you can see that it will make it harder to get it off, but it can be done.

 

What color did you use for the wheel coating clear or the black?

 

Hey guys, I cleaned up my rims really well with just soap and water first. Then I cleaned up some scratches and curbing with bondo. Just filled in and sanded until I got a smooth finish. Then I got the plastidip from Lowes, but I'm pretty sure more places like Lowes, Home Depot, all have it! I first hit it with very light coats and let it dry for a few minutes, then just kept hitting it over and over until I got a nice finish. I used about 1 can per two wheels! I then used "High performance wheel paint" which Pep boys, auto zone, wal mart, or any place like that has. I hit the plastidip with about 2-3 coats per wheel. You can use a small amount of clear after if you'd like to protect the paint. But I didn't want too much shine so I didn't spray much clear at all. Besides, if you really nick the plastidip, the clear won't protect much anway. I suggest not masking your wheel until after the plastidip. Plastidip will rub right off your bare tire, so definitely get inbetween the rim and tire with plastidip, but then I used index cards between the tire and rim after the plastidip. It's been more than a year now, and I've had little damage to the plastidip. Most of the damage is from people touching it, I got egged once and the egg scraped some off. It's faded a little bit, but i'm surprised at how well it's held up. I em probably getting new rims soon so I wont redo mine, but It was a much better alternative to powder coating which is quite pricey! Hope this helps!

 

Thanks man, the car looks muuuuch different now! The bumper in this picture is stock, but I now have a nismo front bumper. And when that picture was taken, I wasn't lowered yet, so it hadn't scraped road really, just the occasional parking block if you pulled up too far. But after I lowered, I scraped a lot more!

 

Just as an FYI, putting wheel paint and clear on top of PlastiDip will make getting the dip off much harder.

 

Honestly, mine comes right off. It comes off a bit too easily actually. If I were to ever redo my rims, I may even go a bit harder with the paint and clear!

 

Here are some recent pictures of my car. The pictures aren't extremely great, but you can see the plastidip still looks pretty good after a year, given they're a little dirty in these photos!




Also, when I spray my wheels with tire shine, it usually gets on the plastidipped rims. This is a good thing. I use the foam applicator and lightly rub it all over the spoked with tire shine on it, and it makes the plastidip look really good! Here's a photo of it!

 

It must really be dependent on exactly what kind of paint is used and how it bonds to the dip

 

I painted these when it was a bit colder here, so maybe it had a different affect than if I were to have painted these in the midst of summer. They took much longer than expected to dry in the cold temps, that could have an affect on it!