Whats the difference between plastidipping and spray paint?

looks to me like you spray painted your grille?

 

Plasti-dip is removable if I remember correctly. I'd like to see it after you're done and have you explain how/what you did. I want to do this! And the fogs....can you come down from NC? lol

 

Plasti dip is basically spray plastic. If you don't like the way it looks you can peel it off

As much as I love the way the fogs look, I will never do it again. Lol

As far as the grill. I just took the A off and taped everything up. Gonna put 3-4 coats letting it dry about 20 minutes in between

 

Lookin good, man...
don't like the glare of the fogs? shooting higher than the low beam cut off?
I love mine, but I agree, probably wouldn't do it next time.

 

Oh thats pretty bad ass! Where do you buy it at? Autozone and stuff?

 

His fogs are actually aimed perfect IMO lol



My beam would probably shoot up close to as high as the garage handle =(
(And it's lowest it can be aimed via the adjustment knob).

Home Depot

 

 

My picture, I'm flattered

Lowes, $5.97 a can

 

Ugh I still gotta take pics of my fogs at night while they're on for you lol. That way, you can see the Nokya Yellows and my beam.

Good luck on the plasti-dipping =)

 

was just guessing...but yeah, i agree...pretty perfect...

 

Interested to see how it all turns out!

 

Hitting the center bar up with one more coat then installing the A and putting it back on

 

Finished and I like it

 

Damn..I like that!! Well done sir. It flows soo much better with the lower black grills now. Any pics up close? How does it look as far as gloss and are imperfections easy to spot? How is it to work with, etc...

Next up...wetsand, polish, seal those headlights!

 

How did you remove the "A"? I'm a noob when it comes to anything non-audio for these cars lol

 

I'll have some close up shots in about 10 minutes. It's not gloss, basically a matte finish

 

The center bar comes off with 4 or 5 screws then the A has 2 more screws

 

 

thanks! i vinyled my whole front grill, but didn't think to vinyl the portion of the grill that is usually 'grey'. it's the area under the middle bar with the "A" logo. i quoted it in the picture.

i vinyled my whole grill with gloss black vinyl and didn't think that portion needed to be vinyled.... well i was wrong. the vinyl is a very dark black color, nearly color matching my nighthawk black pearl TL. the part i left un-vinyled looked very grey compared to the vinyl.

i'm thinking about plastdipping it instead of taking my bumper off to revinyl it... but i don't know if the plastidip will still look grey when contrasted with my NBP car and glossy black vinyl. from what it seems, plastidip adds a 'matte' or 'flat' black finish to it. i'm wondering if that will look good with my vinyl...

 

Supposedly there's a clear plastidip lol

 

I kinda dig the contrast though...very nice.

 

Thanks

 

I'm usually VERY picky about doing stuff to cars as you may or may not have seen from my replies in other threads, but I will say that looks DAMN nice!!!! Reason being it looks as if it could have come stock like that. As mentioned the openings of the upper grill and lower fog grills looks very uniform now.
Just curious how easy is this stuff to remove? Does it effect the surface at all or once you peel it off is it like it was never there?

Nice job!!!

 

Thank your sir, I was worried at first but I love the look of it

 

OK...I'm doing this lol. Geetee you have a PM!

 

Sent ya one back


Since I have a lot left in that can, I'm thinking about doing my rear emblem or maybe some of the interior pieces

 

I plastidipped my rims awhile back just to see how it looked and it came off perfectly. The stuff is awesome. OP, car looks good.

 

Thanks

 

geeteedan, now would you keep the plastidip or vinyl wrap it?

 

aww snaps your fogs are actually pointed properly. mine looks goofy when you check out the beam but i am gonna wait till i get the vinyl wrap for the casing and the overlays. but when you look at it straight on it looks like it belongs lol

 

I think your fog fitment was made better because you don't have the A-Spec lip where you have to trim more lol

I'm too wuss to trim the fogs more to make them sit pointing down lol.

 

I like the plasti dip so far, I'm actually thinking about doing some interior pieces today

 

Well my interior trim pieces that run along the side of the radio and center console were beaten up pretty bad



I'll get some after shots once they are both done
Just taped off all the tabs so they go back in ok

 

looks good keep the mods coming

 

I might do this to my wheels if they make it in colors. Previous owner hit every curb in Texas I think. Looks good though! My trim pieces have a few small blemishes also

 

plastidip rocks!!

 

Yup

I sent ya a text this morning

 

Did you remove the bumper to do this? If so, why did you put it back on to paint? If not, how did you take it off without removing the bumper? Nice job by the way.

 

I left the bumper on. I took the front engine cover off then undid the bumper next to the head lights and that allowed me to pull the bumper back enough to get to the screws on the back of the grill