Have any of you guys seen a car like this?

http://www.pohankaacura.com/chantill...0756-ada003965

I went to the dealership and checked it out. Looks awesome in person. Just curious about the maintenance of the exterior and how well it would hold up to road hazards like rocks, salt, weather, etc.

 

That would be a vinyl wrap, they are fairly common. Basically the same place that wraps vehicles in your area with advertising likely offers this service as well to the general public. It's pretty expensive to wrap a car I think I've heard 3k plus for a good job.

3M makes a really good product that is super durable and will last 4-6 years with proper care (also depends if you garage your car or not and what kind of climate you live in).

Here is a thread with someone who wrapped a 2012 TL in satin silver https://acurazine.com/forums/4g-tl-photograph-gallery-296/matte-silver-2012-tl-837944/

 

i thought this thread was going to have a plastic TL lol

 

Sorry I got your hopes up!

 

This car is actually plasti-dipped. Friend of mine saw it in person and said the finish is terrible and is already starting to peel off.

 

I saw it the other week at Pohanka in their showroom and thought it was butt ugly. It looked like somebody took a case of Rustoleum spray cans and applied it over sand and dirt. Outrageous price too.

 

i guess if he dipped every piece of the car, what an idiot. but i guess that's the cheap way to get the matte black, murdered out look. i think it would look pretty cool if it was painted that color. maybe some radar deflecting paint

 

^if you use an air compressor and gun, plastidip comes out looking amazing!!!

and it would take less time to do it versus via rattle can.

 

Thanks for the tip. I actually saw it in the showroom today and while it is a neat concept, it isn't perfect and feels like someone's side project. I bet the price could come down a lot considering it's a 2013 and still hasn't sold.

 

im not familiar with the process, but i guess someone didnt do that car the right way. cant imagine spray painting a 2013 TL. hahaha.

 

Matte finishes--the craze du jour. Used to be somewhat unique but have now seen these on anything and everything ranging from Honda Civics, Accords, Camrys, Toyota pickup trucks all the way up to uber-AMG's. The one thing all have in common is that they generally look like s**t. When I see some car with a matte finish I always first think it is some car in primer ready for final paint. I guess some airhead celebrity or rapper started this fad out and then everybody had to have one. The irony is that these are costly and difficult to maintain and, at best, still look like a car in primer.

 

^^^
Exactly!

 

Fuck that. Just get a paint job. I almost (thought about it for 2.3 sec) got my other car wrapped, but bit the bullet and paid for the full paint and body. Came out flawless.

 

Seismic although I agree with most of what you said, your age is showing. Vivi, can't say I'm glad you're back.

 

How's life at mom and dad's house, mijo?

 

Age has nothing to do with it. Crap is crap and to fall prey to the notion that something is cool because it is the latest trend-of-the-moment, well perhaps I can interest you in a nice bridge.

 

Life is good, I could only be so lucky as to have a live in maid, unfortunately I'm not. You're quite familiar with the life style for a bigot, must be a coincidence?

I said you're showing your age because while it's poorly executed and looks crapy on most cars, every time I think of a matte finish an Aventador comes to mind. There's nothing crappy looking about that, to which I think we both can agree upon. Where you're showing you're age is that your first assumption when you see a matte finished vehicle is that it hasn't been painted. Can't think of anyone who still wheres them but to the same effect do you assume every person wearing cargo pants is a carpenter?

 

just saw this car in person 20 minutes ago in the showroom, or atleast i think it was the same car. It's not so bad, for a plastidip job if you are not really looking close it looks decent, and whenever you decide to peel it off atleast all the paint underneath will be pristine.

 

Live in maid??? Not since my Embassy days, in your 3rd world home town.

 

That cut deep ted. Might want to start making an alternate, alternate alias.

 

What's that phrase The Terminator says before he crashes through the building?

 

Hasta la vista, I hope?

 

At the risk of prolonging a fruitless discussion, I was quite honest when I said that early on before the trend grabbed hold and I we see a beat up Civic or Camry or Nissan Sentra or Chevy or various other vehicles that clearly were NOT Lamborghini's, with so-called matte black paint jobs, I had consistently initially thought that I was looking at some vehicle in primer ready for paint. It took a while for be to finally figure out that, oh yeah--this was the craze of the moment and it was possible that some of those cars were final painted. Never mind the fact that they often still looked like they were in primer waiting for final finish.

The only reason that matte finishes are all the rage is because they first appeared on high end exotic vehicles and the look is different--not necessarily better but different. To my eye, I have rarely if ever seen a matte black vehicle that actually looks good--just different. The colors that come closest to looking decent in matte are white, dark silver, or that brownish color that BMW offers.

I am pretty confident that if someone got some high profile rapper to put a bunch of dents in their car and then cover the car with bird poop or other garbage and then drive around for a while for photo-ops, we would soon be seeing others following suit.

 

LOL!! Good one, tape worm.

 

What are those 19's or 20's? I would never buy it and look at the price.

 

My friends and I painted two cars at once (both older) using a compressor and a 5 gallon bucket of Black Plastidip thinned with Xynol. came out pretty damn good. Been a year and a half, and it's showing some damage from heavy snow (two winters so far) so we have to reapply a coat or two.