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: About plasti dipping


zyc881126
06-06-2012, 01:25 PM
After doing some researches, I am gonna plasti dip my rims, but I am considering if I should plasti dip the lids and lugs. I dont know if it will look great if I black out them all.

Any ideas guys?

Kivuli
06-07-2012, 06:01 AM
I blacked mine out completely, but the beauty of plastidip is that you can black them out, and if you prefer to undip the lugs later, just peel it off the lugs and caps afterwards.

zyc881126
06-07-2012, 10:03 AM
I blacked mine out completely, but the beauty of plastidip is that you can black them out, and if you prefer to undip the lugs later, just peel it off the lugs and caps afterwards.

Thank you Kivuli, that is what I am thinking, lol

rammsdell
06-07-2012, 02:01 PM
I plastidipped my Car and Rims to get the murdered out look. I think the Rims turned out nice, I did the lugs and everything. I would suggest getting black anodized lugs though. They'll be more durable, not to mention the stock ones have the really flimsy caps on them. I ran into problems on my 2009 challenger, the lugs on my 2010 challenger haven't acted up yet.

Here are some pics of the blacked out 2010 with painted lugs - Murdered out RT - Imgur (http://imgur.com/a/PbJVp#0)

zyc881126
06-07-2012, 08:10 PM
I plastidipped my Car and Rims to get the murdered out look. I think the Rims turned out nice, I did the lugs and everything. I would suggest getting black anodized lugs though. They'll be more durable, not to mention the stock ones have the really flimsy caps on them. I ran into problems on my 2009 challenger, the lugs on my 2010 challenger haven't acted up yet.

Here are some pics of the blacked out 2010 with painted lugs - Murdered out RT - Imgur (http://imgur.com/a/PbJVp#0)

Thank you Rammsdell, that guy looks so good!!

rammsdell
06-07-2012, 08:25 PM
No problem, the plastidip has since been removed. I got too many questions from people asking what color I planned on painting the car. They gave me blank looks when I tell them matte black, they think I just painted my car with primer and was too lazy to finish.

I would still recommend it on the rims if you want a different look, easy enough to apply and take off if you screw up. I put a garbage bags around the rotors/calipers/brakes and just sprayed the whole rim and tire. Put it on thick on the tire and it peels right off clean. Don't have to worry about removing the rim or taping the rim off.

zyc881126
06-07-2012, 09:13 PM
No problem, the plastidip has since been removed. I got too many questions from people asking what color I planned on painting the car. They gave me blank looks when I tell them matte black, they think I just painted my car with primer and was too lazy to finish.

I would still recommend it on the rims if you want a different look, easy enough to apply and take off if you screw up. I put a garbage bags around the rotors/calipers/brakes and just sprayed the whole rim and tire. Put it on thick on the tire and it peels right off clean. Don't have to worry about removing the rim or taping the rim off.

Yeah! I've watched the videos of the Dipyourcar.com, but am gonna paint my calipers, so I need to take my rims off, :P. Also Dipyourcar also sells a glossifier which can make the matte black look glossy, I think that thing is awesome!

raVenX
06-08-2012, 12:40 AM
After doing some researches, I am gonna plasti dip my rims, but I am considering if I should plasti dip the lids and lugs. I dont know if it will look great if I black out them all.

Any ideas guys?
Really a personal preference. It looks good both ways.

Caveat: Putting a lug wrench over a plasti dip'd lug nut might just nick the lug and pull some plasti dip off. Prolly best to buy black lugs to prevent that if that's the look that you decide that you want. You could always just touch up the nicks with a paint brush.