Plasti dipping my front grill
#1
Plasti dipping my front grill
I just finished plasti-dipping the emblems and the grill on my wife's 2008 Rav4. I'm about to plasti dip the grill on my WDP 2004 TL but I'm trying to decide the best way to go about it. I'd like to dip the outer chrome area white and the middle black, either leaving the "A" logo chrome or plasti-dipping it white.
What is the best order to do it in? Does dry plasti dip come up if you try to tape it off to spray adjacent to it? The plan is to tape off everything but the silver crossbar, spray that black, let it dry, then mask off the middle part of the grill and plasti-dip the outer chrome trim white. But I'm afraid I won't be able to put masking tape on the black dipped part.
Here's a few pics of the wife's Rav4, if anyone is interested (just finished completely blacking out the grill but haven't uploaded the pics yet):
Before:
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-08-25_15-46-55_555.jpg)
Prepped:
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-51-58_211.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-52-06_382.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-53-04_203.jpg)
First coat:
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-56-48_18.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-56-39_387.jpg)
Finished:
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-33-48_210.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-33-56_274.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-34-05_604.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-34-30_825.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-34-37_139.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-34-48_86.jpg)
What is the best order to do it in? Does dry plasti dip come up if you try to tape it off to spray adjacent to it? The plan is to tape off everything but the silver crossbar, spray that black, let it dry, then mask off the middle part of the grill and plasti-dip the outer chrome trim white. But I'm afraid I won't be able to put masking tape on the black dipped part.
Here's a few pics of the wife's Rav4, if anyone is interested (just finished completely blacking out the grill but haven't uploaded the pics yet):
Before:
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-08-25_15-46-55_555.jpg)
Prepped:
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-51-58_211.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-52-06_382.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-53-04_203.jpg)
First coat:
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-56-48_18.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_13-56-39_387.jpg)
Finished:
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-33-48_210.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-33-56_274.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-34-05_604.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-34-30_825.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-34-37_139.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-34-48_86.jpg)
![](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/Btros_photos/forums/2012-09-02_15-35-56_615.jpg)
#3
That looks really good. That looks like just a one-step process though. I'm going to be plasti-dipping over something that has already been dipped. Like say in that second pic, if you were now going to plasti dip the chrome trim white, or some other color. Would the black stuff come up when you removed the masking tape?
#6
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That looks really good. That looks like just a one-step process though. I'm going to be plasti-dipping over something that has already been dipped. Like say in that second pic, if you were now going to plasti dip the chrome trim white, or some other color. Would the black stuff come up when you removed the masking tape?
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#10
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Can you please let know how the plasti dip holds up to chipping away on the highway, before i spend the money on it when i already have chipping paint on the grill.
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