started to remove some of the Plasti dip
#25
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For the guys who like to talk about car values, the owner of the blue gt3 in the second pic - he bought a friend of mines 993 c2s 2 years ago (10K ish km), just sold it for over twice what he paid for it (well in to 6 figures) and basically traded in the 993 c2s for the 997 gt3+30K cash!
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Yesterday I did my daughter's Mazda 3 with clear (for paint protection). My other daughter has a Honda Fit I did in pink for her (it has eye lashes), going to redo her's too.
(no affiliation, just having fun with the stuff )
#29
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The Arena seemed to be well preserved beneath. There is a new finish coat available to look like actual paint? That is good to know. In my experience with dipping (wheels) is that the "glossifier" is certainly not like "clear coat" it's a bit tacky and although it provides gloss it just is not nearly the same.
I have successfully painted clear coat over plastidip and the works well. I painted the bottom air duct on my 996TTS to body color. I don't know why Porsche left that last vent black but it bugged me. So I painted a thick coating of plastidip then i put oem paint then clear and it came out as indistinguishable from the rest of the car...to my surprise really. So I'm sure its not too far a stretch for the Plastidip people to endorse a process of their own.
Further, if it is "perfected" at some point it could mean the death of the "body wraps".....bad part about those is that you can't wrap "bits" like door handles and such/I think you must paint them partially defeating the purpose of a wrap....but you sure could "dip" em.
Interesting.
Oh and how was durability? I did wheels two years ago and the "metalizer" actually wiped off over time/washings.....so there is a lot of room for dip improvement IMO
I have successfully painted clear coat over plastidip and the works well. I painted the bottom air duct on my 996TTS to body color. I don't know why Porsche left that last vent black but it bugged me. So I painted a thick coating of plastidip then i put oem paint then clear and it came out as indistinguishable from the rest of the car...to my surprise really. So I'm sure its not too far a stretch for the Plastidip people to endorse a process of their own.
Further, if it is "perfected" at some point it could mean the death of the "body wraps".....bad part about those is that you can't wrap "bits" like door handles and such/I think you must paint them partially defeating the purpose of a wrap....but you sure could "dip" em.
Interesting.
Oh and how was durability? I did wheels two years ago and the "metalizer" actually wiped off over time/washings.....so there is a lot of room for dip improvement IMO