what colour do you plan on doing it? ive been reading about this for years and i keep reading that flat black is the only colour that looks right on a car.

I have seen that flat blue and I think it looks good. Leaning towards doing that with my car. Check out the DYC forums they have a dip of the month, gives you a good idea off all the colours.

Will do!

I'm going black, I was contemplating Gun Metal, but I'm just going to go nice simply black. I am also somewhat tempted that if there was enough local people to me that wanted to go in, I would get a 50gal drum, I would imagine it would be quite a bit better pricing.

I am going with camo green, I thought the process was quite forgiving even with rattle cans?

I just dipped the whole front clip of my Evo with black using the pro car kit with the wagner sprayer. As long as you have the gun set up right it lays down nice and smooth. First attempt it was spraying too much product and I got a bunch of runs so I had to peel it off.. dialed the gun back a bit and it was much better.

Make sure you do 5+ coats or it's a chore to peel off as it's not thick enough and keeps tearing. I spent about 4 hours peeling off two doors that only had 2 coats on them. When you have good coverage it peels off in one nice clean sheet!

We'll see how it lasts the winter now.. trying to keep the rock chips at bay.

Kirk, I am sure it's possible but I won't believe it till I have seen it.

Greg that looks really good, can you post any other picture up? Where did you get the kit from?

Ive seen David Blands car, He did his flat black. Altho his fenders are a bit rough, he figured it out what he did wrong and the rest of the car looked really good.

He used rattle can.

Ive seen videos, and if done right the rattle can can do a good job. Its self leveling so it should be easier then painting with paint. PLUS from what I read, if you scratch it, you take the extra can you carry in the trunk and just spray the scratch. The cemical reaction will make the scratch dissapear.

I been looking into this for years but I havent found "MY COLOUR" sold in Canada or able to be shipped.

Got the email back from Patrick from Canadian DYC, the kit listed on that page is actually 15 cans for $225.

The 3gal with sprayer is $360. Both are plus tax, shipping to me is ~$53, might be cheaper for those in the East.

Jay, the place I linked should be able to get you that kit.

In regards to the scratch and recoating, plasti-dip is a very high VOC single component coating which "cures" by evaporation. Only 25% of what is in the can actually stays behind on your car, the other 75% is all thinners and solvents that just evaporate away. What this means is, if you use the same solvent that the original resin was suspended in, you can re-suspend the resin. This is both good and bad. Good because, as you mentioned, you can easily repair damage by getting the affected area to re-flow and cover the scratch. Bad because if any of solvents touch the coating, it will adversely affect it. Since the primary solvent for plasti-dip is a petroleum product, gasoline will affect it. It is also the high VOC content that allows it to level out so well.

Here is the datasheet http://www.plastidip.com/docs/Rubber%20Dip.pdf

MSDS http://www.plastidip.com/docs/rubber_dip_spec_sheet.pdf

Rubber dip is the exact same as plasti-dip, only difference is the packaging - rubber dip is sold from the gallon up, plasti-dip is the consumer marketed in smaller containers and rattle can.

Gallon cans are $75 a piece, pre-dip is $13 per bottle.

Soon as I get the metal replacement done, I'm going 3g of black with one bottle of pre-dip cleaner.

I am really curious if that pre dip stuff is worth it. Deep and I picked up some plastidip from the states a while back, he grabbed the pre dip and I did not. Pretty sure neither of us have dipped our rims yet but I am curious if it makes a huge difference.

Yeah I haven't done it yet. Sometime in the spring. I dont have any rims to plastidip right now lol

haha, yeah that's my plan too. As soon as it starts warming up then I will worry about them

I didn't use any pre dip on my wheels, I just wiped them down with a rag soaked in acetone and sprayed a couple coats on, it's been on for 2 years now.

I also figure this would make a rocking transmission coating...if you are into that sorta thing.

i think it melt off anything in the engine bay.

If you spill any gas or oil on it, it gets melted basically, I wouldn't put it on a tranny.

Jason the wheels look good!

Can't say I've ever had that problem.

It doesn't happen right away, it has to sit for a bit. It's not like it just instantly turns back to a liquid but I guess that's how I made it sound.

I meant it more about the oil and gas on the tranny, I haven't had either spill or seep on my tranny. Antifreeze 'yes', oil or gas 'no'.

But you are right, oil or gas ponding on it will start to dissolve it back to its liquid state until the gas has a chance to evaporate out. If you soak a rag in gasoline and kept wiping at it, you'll eventually get somewhere - how much rubbing, I'll test when I get my batch in, hopefully the start of next year.

i think it would be wicked in the hatch area of a car, I think next spring I will strip my hatch area down and clean it up and then use the plastic dip to get a great seal and be done with things getting messy from having some undercoating over spray in that area

Bringing this thread up...

Any updates from guys who have done their car/rims?

I emailed the DYW guys and they said $750 for the galant.

I'm aiming for early spring to get this done.

750! what colour are you doing. The most expensive kit is 350 I think, we can have a hangout in your driveway and do it.

As the weather is warming up I will probably be doing my rims pretty soon.

That's for THEM to do it.

I was pondering whether or not to do I myself. I seen the guy do the s4. Looks easy enough though.

I would go for it, I was planning on picking up the whole kit, so you can just grab a few gallons.

Does anyone else want to go in an order of WHITE, I've got one buddy at work and myself... We're talking the whole car. Probably at least a few gallons each car.

I'm in for flat/matte black

I wonder if you have I change the info on your vehicle ownership?

Absolutely!

I painted my Civic back in the day, from black, to gunmetal grey, and one week into it..I got pulled over and questioned.

$10 for a new ownership card.

I'm in for 2 gallons. How many coats do you figure that'll do?

Do we have a location?

is there a gloss? Sorry, too lazy to research as I can smell my food cooking. If so, My spyder could use some lovin... Or hell, why not do both cars at once!

Check out this kijiji ad.

Looks like he buys A LOT and sells them cheap to undercut everyone else

http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-...c-ca-W0QQAdIdZ432971551QQfeaturedAdZtrue

My rims still look as good as day 1.



They make a "glossifier" to top coat it with.



He's still making a good profit considering they cans can be had for around $8 retail. I should bring some over for the states and under cut him

theres a guy north of Ottawa that sells it too. for about that price.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Plasti-Dip-S...arts&hash=item337fef96c1&vxp=mtr

OK its south of Ottawa..

Anyway, I changed my mind and am not gonna plastidip my whole car .. But I was gonna do this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jzi_JQMWH4

Chris I will probably be going for the blue, still on the fence as the other option I was looking at was black and white (matte for all of them)

Unfortunately for the glossy guys it only comes in rattle can (at least that was the case last time I checked)

So, around spring time?

Bryan, are you still planning on buying the kit?

The dip on my Evo is holding up excellent through the winter so far.. no chips or tears. Been through the automatic car wash a few times now too!

Word of advice for those wanting to go white.. it takes WAY more product to cover the old color. My friend did his entire Integra in white (covering over black paint) and ended up having to use about EIGHT gallons! Whereas with black you can do a standard size car with just 3.

Here is his car..

We should set up a "body work" mini-meet for those with not-so-perfect body panels

Bondo, beer and b**

Anyone use the clear stuff? Is it glossy? I was thinking of spraying the front of my ralliart to protect from the sandblasting effect and small rock chips.

Bryan when do you plan on getting the kit?