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Old 03-12-2012, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by ericemery
You will rip plasti dip up with high pressure water. I had 10 Coats on the eclipse, had to hand wash and rinse. (Btw. 10 coats of plasti dip on a car takes around 18 cans... if anyone is feeling frisky.)
Now that I know what my grille looks like if it does come of then I will just paint it.

Plasti-dip is really good if you just want to see the difference it's gonna make and if you don't like it, you can easily peal it off.
 
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Now that I know what my grille looks like if it does come of then I will just paint it.

Plasti-dip is really good if you just want to see the difference it's gonna make and if you don't like it, you can easily peal it off.
When you say easily how easy are we talking? Does it create extra prep work other than peeling if I decide to paint later?
 
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Old 03-12-2012, 06:53 PM
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When you say easily how easy are we talking? Does it create extra prep work other than peeling if I decide to paint later?
YouTube plastic dip removal plenty of examples
 
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Ya man you just need a toothpick according to some of those videos
 
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Thanks. I should have thought of looking on youtube. Untill I joined this forum I had no clue this product existed. Pretty cool stuff.
 
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Originally Posted by snipermax86
With mine, I sanded the chrome off with a power hand sander w/ 200 and 320 grit, sprayed adhesion promoter, etching primer (2 coats). But I used the duplicolor bed armor roll on bed liner and painted it on with a small paint brush. I put about 2 coats on it.
Do you have pictures of this?
 
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Old 03-13-2012, 05:32 PM
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Here's a before pic with chrome grill and the trim of the lights unpainted.
sigpic5.jpg

Here both the lights and grill are painted, grill with plasti-dip and the trim from lights with duplicolor.
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And the front end.
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Old 03-13-2012, 09:51 PM
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looks good,probably more durable with the thick coating .im sort of old fashioned though, i like the chrome . if they werent so expensive id like to get the spider web grill pattern, like this.....
 
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heres how mine came out im thinking about doing the bumpers next
 



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