Was it anyone here that made a call about PlastiDip today?

surlyoldbill

surlyoldbill

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My friend dipped his minicooper wheels a few years ago, and when I noticed them a month ago, I thought he had just done it. The stuff CAN be pretty durable.

Question, just use a lot of rattle cans or do you buy it buy the quart/gallon and use a sprayer?

Never mind, I just watched the video.
 
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Geek

Geek

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Cole said:
Dude! It was painting a motorcycle rack 2-3 years ago.......and you expect me to remember how many coats:lol: I'm totally guessing it was only 2-3:idunno: Certainly wasn't a LOT of coats.

And, It was no surprise that my top case messed it up. :rolleyes: Probably had 5,000 touring/off road miles on it at that point.
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Do you still have your 950? :cheers:

I love mine :smilewink:

 
Geek

Geek

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surlyoldbill said:
My friend dipped his minicooper wheels a few years ago, and when I noticed them a month ago, I thought he had just done it. The stuff CAN be pretty durable.

Question, just use a lot of rattle cans or do you buy it buy the quart/gallon and use a sprayer?

Never mind, I just watched the video.
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I have two cans coming and then 7 gallons.
I'll use the cans for "detail edging" before I start spraying with the gun.

They predicted I'll need 9 gallons.. we'll see how it goes.
I'm going to do the van in sections and do each section until it is perfect.. buying more as I go from what I learn as I go.

I'm going to start with the rust issue areas - back doors and above the windshield. Then the hood, then work my way back panel by panel. It'll probably look like the partridge family bus for a while well I wait on more gallons to arrive :bounce:

:popcorn:
 
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cloead

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so far i've dipped my bumpers and wheel trim (anything plastic) black

will be doing the rest of the van in gunmetal.. they were closing out the spray cans for $1 each at home depot so I bought them all (got about 16 cans). will see how far that gets me. going to do 1 body section at a time.

7 gallons seems like way too much lol but i'm assuming you ordered from dipyourcar.com? they seem to know their stuff.
 
Cole

Cole

OUTLAW SPRINTER!!!
So, I'm curious how well Plasti-Dip puts up with abrasions? My Sprinter is used for camping and often parked downtown. Both of which has put the roof in contact with tree branches a LOT. I've got some pretty impressive scratches in the paint from them already.
 
surlyoldbill

surlyoldbill

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Just a thought, I wonder if you put a few coats of plastidip on as a "primer" so it can be removed later, and then sprayed DIY bedliner material over it? When I used the Duplicolor bedliner rattle cans, the stuff was pretty durable.
 
Cole

Cole

OUTLAW SPRINTER!!!
surlyoldbill said:
Just a thought, I wonder if you put a few coats of plastidip on as a "primer" so it can be removed later, and then sprayed DIY bedliner material over it? When I used the Duplicolor bedliner rattle cans, the stuff was pretty durable.
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Interesting idea!

I'm not really too concerned with removal personally. I did bedliner on the roof of my Poptop Eurovan, but the van was already black so it matches very well.

I just don't really want a black roof on the Sprinter and don't want to pay for an expensive one off color bedliner. Plastidip offers more options.

Eurovan top for reference since I mentioned it.
 
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cloead

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surlyoldbill said:
Just a thought, I wonder if you put a few coats of plastidip on as a "primer" so it can be removed later, and then sprayed DIY bedliner material over it? When I used the Duplicolor bedliner rattle cans, the stuff was pretty durable.
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people have used plastidip as a "removable primer" if you will and then painted other paints over it. IIRC it worked well
 
T.J.T

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cloead said:
people have used plastidip as a "removable primer" if you will and then painted other paints over it. IIRC it worked well
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The problem then when you remove it is it doesnt peel off like platsi dip it then chips off because the paint is much harder.
 
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cloead

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looks like i recalled incorrectly :rofl:

WOOPSs

one more huge rust patch on my sprinter and it will be plastidip time. cant wait!
 
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SRF

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Geek said:
I just called and orderd almost $700 worth of plastidip to spray my Sprinter.

The gent on the phone apparently had a call from someone else just this morning who was inquiring about how much it would take to do a 170wb.

Anyone here?
I'd love to compare notes.
:cheers:

p.s. my order should be here early next week.
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May have been me. That's about the time I called and ordered 11 gallons.
I have not had time to spray her yet but as soon as I do, I'll post photos.
She should be done by Monday...
 
Geek

Geek

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Look forward to seeing it!
What color did you get?
I sprayed the front half of mine last weekend (after 3 days of scrubbing & masking)



.mobile
 
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SRF

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Geek said:
Look forward to seeing it!
What color did you get?
I sprayed the front half of mine last weekend (after 3 days of scrubbing & masking)



.mobile
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Your van looks great!!!

I got 8 gal of the gunmetal grey and 3 gal anthracite grey.
Plan to spray it this weekend. I will post picks as soon as I do.
Prep has been tough. little time and tons of old vinyl wrap to slowly peel off...
 
Geek

Geek

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:thumbup: Prep is everything. I spent 3 days disassembling/masking/scrubbing the front.

What sprayer are you going to use?
This is the one I used: http://bit.ly/1tywPkv

It is built specifically for plastidip and it is super easy to use/clean.


I ordered 3 more gallons of plastidip today. It turns out it was a good thing to order my first order and then this order separately as I had gotten 693 "dip points" on my first order so I got I got like 95% off one of the gallons due to "dip points" (a gallon of camo is 700 points)

This is how it comes: http://bit.ly/1lWQiwy
 
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