myron

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home hardware has it, so google the closest home hardware. I taped off my front end and might paint it tomorrow.

guitarplayer16

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Cool, thanks.

I have a home hardware that's like 20 minutes away.

Home hardware seems to carry "hard to find in Canada" products like Bar Keepers Friend LOL

myron

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Yea I had to go to a different city to find Home Hardware. It was like a 30 min drive but what ever.

DarkSithCL

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cray question? does it come in colors?????

myron

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Yes it does. I can take a picture of the can if you want. Black is the color option, this is usually clear I think. On the car, there is a list of the colors that it comes in. Yellow, Red, Blue... Green maybe, white. Maybe more, not sure.

DarkSithCL

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crazy.... LOL

DarkSithCL

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COLORS

http://www.plastidip.com/home_solutions/Plasti_Dip

stvtec

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Myron, good job on the masking but I might cover up the engine and the fenders/bumper as well with some garbage bags. What are you going to do about the badge? And please post pics when you're done, I definitely want to do this when the weather improves.

rtibbitts07

Don't you need to remove the bumper to remove the A emblem?

stvtec

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Yep.

myron

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Oh yea for sure I am not done. I did that last night in like 5 min. I got a huge black garbage bag that can just slide right over the hood, then I am gonna lower the hood but not close it all the way and tape up the blue bag in the pic out over the hood so the engine bay is protected and so is the hood. And just throw a garbage bag over the fenders.

I don't know if anyone that's doing the black chrome emblems will sell me their stock badge. If they are then I won't bother taping it up. How is the badge attached? Screws or tabs?

DarkSithCL

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thanks so very much for the offer bro... I ended up having a minute and dod a search and posted bf I looked back at the thread...

rtibbitts07

I believe there are a couple screws holding it in place that are only accessible when the bumper is removed. You can find youtube vid somewhere showing how to remove the bumper, it really isnt that hard...

myron

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trust me man, it's hard when it's all covered with dirty and salt. No way in hell can you remove the clips, it's all caked up and shit, and bolts are a pain in the ass to take off. If I was in a sunny climate and my TL has never seen a canadian winter, I would take off the bumper.

Trunk Monkey

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Looks good so far! I don't think taping off the "A" emblem with the ring would be too hard but maybe take a bit. Just tear the painters tape into small strips and make the circle, etc. Use an exacto knife, razor blade, etc and you should be golden. Once the weather clears up I might do this!


Actually...I'll be home this weekend in my parents heated garage. Hmm....might have to do some experimenting

stvtec

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I think a previous poster was correct, that the center emblem is held on with a few screws from the back. Unfortunately.

kim0811

cell phone pic haha
never posted pictures on here before; hopefully that worked!
anyways, tlnoob is right, it isn't too hard to get the badge taped off but it just takes a little while!

myron

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that looks great

kim0811

thanks myron; i see you're all set up to get started on yours! go for it and let's see some picssss

guitarplayer16

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It's a beauty.

Nicely done =)

In for myron's pictures =P

kim0811

^ thanks! i'm thinking about playing around some more with the plastidip this weekend; will post some better pics if i come up with anything interesting
join the club guitarplayer, and post some pics!

03tLsNBP

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lol at all the masking.

i didnt bother masking anything off really. the stuff is really forgiving and very easy to clean up overspray with no damage at all to the surface underneath.

myron

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that only took me 10-15 min. I painted it and just waiting for it to dry. Gonna take all that shit off tomorrow and see what I did haha

Pharonocon

I didn't. I don't remember exactly what I did, but I remember using a short philips screwdriver and a ratchet extension to loosen that center grille piece.

I didn't use the actual ratchet. I just turned it by hand.

rockstar143

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You actually don't have to remove the bumper to get the emblem off...you can pry the top part of the front bumper out enough to reach in with a short screwdriver...there are 5 screws holding the center bar that you are painting on...evenly spaced and 1 in the middle that you can't see...once you take that off, you can unscrew the 2 smaller screws for the emblem.

I've done this numerous times.
In addition, the headlights are accessible to change the bulbs by removing front rim and pulling back fenderliner.

PITA, but less work than taking off the whole bumper.

J.

How does this hold up to road debris/chips?

myron

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^ wish I had known that yesterday haha I wouldn't waste time taping off the badge.

v|nsan|ty

Lol lets see those pictures! This seems less tedious than wrapping in 3M vinyl. Has anyone done both and can offer insight?

nate_0022

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So far mine is holding up pretty well. Even though I don't have many driving hours with the newly painted grille, but I odn't have any rock chips or tearing. I may experiment painting the wheels this spring once it finally starts warming up.

stvtec

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I'm trying to decide if I should just paint the center bar which is silver, or also hit the whole black area surrounding it so it will be the same black and same material. The surrounding part is part of the bumper, but the silver bottom trim is removable. That was confusing... here, I circled the removable silver trim in red.



Anyone who did this, did you paint just the silver center bar, or all of the black area up to the circled trim?

nate_0022

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I painted everything but the outside silver trim. I'd say paint everything but the surrounding silver trim just to make it look more uniform.

stvtec

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You're right. Cleaned up, taped off, and primer spray bombed the whole section. Waiting for dry, then PlastiDip!

kim0811

it is definitely less tedious than wrapping in vinyl; with this all you need to do is spray it on! i ended up taking off the vinyl i had on my grill and just doing this instead just cuz i decided i liked the matte look better and i didn't want to go through the process of taking off my glossy vinyl and putting on the matte one all over again
but i'm not sure how well it'll hold up. i hear it gets chipped pretty easily. so far soo good though!

and stvtec, i'm thinking about doing the whole thing too; please post pics

Trunk Monkey

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So you do need to primer?

myron

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maybe it would be good to run some clear over it, make it more durable.

kim0811

i didn't

good idea myron, i didn't even think of that

nate_0022

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I didn't primer either. Just washes with dish soap

myron

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+1. But now I am thinking about clear and not sure if I wanna go it or not. before I take off all the paper and shit. I am sure it's not gonna be mate color if I do clear it.

kim0811

i was thinkin about that too and i'm thinking to clear it only if it starts to chip real easy
has anyone had this for a long time and know how well it holds up?

myron

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just google it. Guys are doing this on all different cars forums.

myron

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somebody should plasticdip their roof haha