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Liquid Wrap
- Thread starter phototec
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This is actually the present. It's called plasti dip (plasti dipping). A lot of people have been doing it for a while, if you do a simple YouTube search you'll find plenty of results. The process of applying it is easy, but the finish looks terrible when compared to vinyl, especially when you're a few feet away in person. Its also not durable at all.
Auburnpeanut
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If that is the same plasti-dip for covering wrench handles and the likes, I don't see how that can be durable at all. Besides if you are going to go through that much trouble to mask everything off, why wouldn't you just paint the thing?....
ChicagoGraphics
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I did my neices SUV last year in a matte black and then my nephew did his jeep in a matte white. And when your sick of the color you just take it off.
Auburnpeanut
New Member
Does it just peel off? How hard/easy? If it gets chipped by rocks, does it start coming off?
ChicagoGraphics
New Member
No it doesn't really get chipped, like my nephew does a lot of off roading and its stuck on there.
How anyone can screew up sparying plasti dip is beyond me, I used a Wegner electric spay gun
Auburnpeanut
New Member
How hard is it to get off when you try to take it off? How do you take it off?
phototec
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Myths About Plasti Dip
[video=youtube;vvkq-qyY9aY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvkq-qyY9aY[/video]
Vital Designs
Vital Designs
I wouldn't completely write it off.
We have played with it to compare the look, feel, durability etc vs wrap material. We had to know to be able to sell against it. It has its place. The look is all based on quality of work. We had a customer that produces custom show ATV's and side x sides and was building a ATV that was bright yellow. He wanted us to wrap it for a promotion. There was not enough money in the world..... We decided to plasti dip it and it came out great. I put a piece of 3m flat black down against it and it was hard to tell the difference look wise.
The pros are:
Its cheap and removable
If done right it can look good.
There are new colors along with metal flakes and pearls.
It can be freshened up.
It is quite durable on most surfaces. (Not ATV plastic but not much is)
You can do emblems, wheels, grills etc very easy.
The cons:
It doesn't have the smooth feel of wrap material.
The light colors seem to hold dirt.
The usual issues with spray products (mess, cleanup, fumes etc)
There a few shops in my area that do it and they stay very busy. The problem is like anything, the market will saturate with poor quality hacks.
Here is the atv I did and a mirror on one of our cars as a sample.
We have played with it to compare the look, feel, durability etc vs wrap material. We had to know to be able to sell against it. It has its place. The look is all based on quality of work. We had a customer that produces custom show ATV's and side x sides and was building a ATV that was bright yellow. He wanted us to wrap it for a promotion. There was not enough money in the world..... We decided to plasti dip it and it came out great. I put a piece of 3m flat black down against it and it was hard to tell the difference look wise.
The pros are:
Its cheap and removable
If done right it can look good.
There are new colors along with metal flakes and pearls.
It can be freshened up.
It is quite durable on most surfaces. (Not ATV plastic but not much is)
You can do emblems, wheels, grills etc very easy.
The cons:
It doesn't have the smooth feel of wrap material.
The light colors seem to hold dirt.
The usual issues with spray products (mess, cleanup, fumes etc)
There a few shops in my area that do it and they stay very busy. The problem is like anything, the market will saturate with poor quality hacks.
Here is the atv I did and a mirror on one of our cars as a sample.
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I have a local tanning salon owner here who had his car done (his brother actually owned a shop and did the work). He went with bright orange, but said it faded after just a few months since there were no UV protectants in the plasti-dip (this is just what he said - I have not verified if it's true). He left it on for just a few months and then peeled it off.
Chriswagner92
New Member
I have plastidipped the roof on my 350z with a couple of rattle cans from home depot and it looked good..when it was wet... from like 20 feet away. it leaves streakes and is a lot harder than it looks to remove. It doesn't all come off in one piece like most videos show and if i were to do it again i would do vinyl.
Vital Designs
Vital Designs
The more coats the easier it will come off and the smoother it will look.
Vital Designs
Vital Designs
Florescent colors will fade just like florescent vinyl. There are bright colors that are supposed to hold up better. We are doing some testing with an electric lime green right now to see how it holds up.