I plasti-dipped my FC
 

I was getting tired of the crappy paint-job the po did since it was flaking and had some rust starting to show up in spots, figured I'd fix it myself until i get a proper paint-job.

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For $300 including the cost of an hvlp gun and a few other things, i think it looks awesome.

cool. wish the pic worked.. ill be dipping my car in the next few weeks..

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Nice, I was skeptical of plastidip at first but after doing some exterior trim pieces with it on my other car I'm pretty impressed. Its cool how it leaves the original paint/surface un affected when you peel it off.

It does leave paint unaffected, though if you have a crappy paint-job that's flaking, as it dries and shrinks, the plasti-dip will lift it up if its by a sharp edge or you peel it off. I have to fix the headlight covers on mine because it lifted the paint (I'll take pictures)

Looks great! Love that stuff

http://i43.tinypic.com/n3stqr.jpg here's a shot of the issue i was having with some of the old paint peeling while the dip dried

Can you take closer pics of the body?.. It looks awesome!..

Sure thing, I'm not actually done though. It took me 6 hours of prepping and painting to get where it's at. Since then the weather has yet to cooperate with the days I have off.

I maybe used 1 1/2 gallons of the premixed plasti-dip from DYC.com out of the 3 gallons I ordered.

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Looks great!!!

looks awesome! good work!

It does look really good. Nice job.

I will say, with PlastiDip, just make sure you apply a good number of coats. That's how it peels smoothly. I've seen wheels with too few coats ruin finishes underneath.

great job I'm going to try white plasti dip this weekend I'm excited to see the outcome! But your pics have confirmed me doing mine!

How many gallons total do you think it will take to finish the job?

The DipYourCar.com website recommends 3 gallons for most cars. They sell full kits w/sprayers and everything for $299. They recommend 5-6 coats.

@ Corifto
No worries, the paint on my car was junk, the only "problem" spot i'm gonna have is the driver side rear quarter where i repaired some rust.

@ShenStyles
To finish, just 1 1/2 gallons... In total, 3gallons

Cool. Carry on then. It looks good. I think the product is amazing for what it does. And it's price is quite fair.

I dipped my fc in fall i love the way it looks

Thanks man. I've been wanting to plasti-dip the fc so I could change it up whenever. All I'm gonna need is a gun, since I have all necessary air equipment. (if I don't need a special gun)

They sell prethinned product for normal guns if I recall correctly.

Yes, the gallon sizes are pre-thinned and You can use a generic hvlp gun. Dipyourcar.com has a pro-car kit, which has everything you need to paint.

I'll make a video about the "trouble" spots on FC's sometime this weekend.

That's wsup, I'm lookin forward to seeing this car complete. I wanna see how well this turns out.

So i forgot the details for my youtube account. I'll set up a new one when i get home. Would have done it sooner, but I've been installing some "go faster bits" over the past few days

Look nice

Nice I plasti dip my fd too

Sorry guys, was busy racking up 50 hours worth of overtime the past few weeks. I'll have it up soon.

Shoulda done matte white with the black mouldings......

I plan on doing my vert white.

I'm considering the plastidip route to repaint the car, would you recommend the ready to spray canned plastidip from like home depot to do the whole car?

lookin good!

not bad

Looks good. I just bought 3 gallons of white for my FD

Just to let you know they recommend a gray or a black basecoat (I don't recall which off the top of my head). There's some kind of chemical issue with being able to peel off the white cleanly like the the other colors so a few coats of the other color ensures easy removal. Just dropping that tidbit.

Do you have a link to share?

I am thinking about doing this. It's been a few months now, are you happy with it still?

Any photos of door jams you could share? Thanks.

I have plasti dipped several sets of wheels and other goodies. I almost plasti dipped my volvo wagon. Butttt it was totaled first :(. Your dipp job looks killer man! My paint job on my FB was done by prev owner at maaco for like 200 bucks lol. and no body work done. I may have to do some body work and then plasti dip my rx. Again looks fantastic.

Any gloss dip?

They have a glossifier, but I can't say how much of a difference it makes as I've only seen it on youtube.

I plastic dipped my lip 5 coats drove it all summer and it still looks fresh no pealing or anything!