plasti dipping colors

[saabhutter]

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Recently I've been hearing of plasti dip damaging paint. Something about improper paint thinning.

[jta430]

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only one i have heard of is a guy who dipped his hood with 1 day old clear coat made quite a mess

[Kor]

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I heard of people damaging their paint but its because they are buying their own thinners and not going with what is recommended by people who know what they are doing.

[R_Ethug]

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^this was a concern absolutely since the paint thinner you use is literally pure gasoline/acid/poison

it was OK though.. i've had no issues with mine to date other than finally a rock took a chip from the hood which i need to repair

[24vr86]

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So my brother has been bugging me to plastidip his Infiniti after showing him some of the work on here. He wants to do matte black but is too scared to do it alone the first time. Beer, food cash, is on the table whoever is willing to help.
Also wanted to know which spray gun should be buy, or will ipp recommend one?

[Kor]

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Man I have spent maybe 100 hours on YouTube watching videos about dipping

I would 100% get everything from DipYourCar.com including buying their gun and gear.

[jta430]

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dipyourcar wont ship to canada well they wont ship the paint. i used a earlex 3500 had to get it from the uk, home depot sells the wagner guns.

ipp is your best place to buy the dip in gallons it comes pure from them so you have to thin it yourself, i used xylene to thin it in a 1-1 ratio. i used 3 gallons to do my urs4 matte black.
so get 2 gallons of dip from ipp 2gallons of xylene from anywhere gives you 4 gallons of thinned plastidip better to have to much than not enough.

the dipyour car videos are good to see how its done but as a buisness not so much.

[P Arkus]

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^^^This. I wont repeat my experiences with DYC...

[kujiwara]

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Does anyone how close the black plastidip will match the rubberized black interior parts in a VW?

[24vr86]

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finally found some time and did it. 1/1 ratio, wagner gun. not bad for the first time. But im sure it could be better.

[Kor]

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Core Customs had like 6 or something dipped cars at Driven, I asked them about what services they are offering but never heard back. :/

Re shipping from the US... just use myus.com I use them once a month for half the stuff I buy. Amazon, whatever.

DYC sells a lot more stuff than the kit and the thinned dip - all the color tints, finishers like metalizer or gloss etc where do you get those from?

[P Arkus]

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Some of the cars that were dipped at driven were sprayed terribly. And this is coming from a guy who can easily admit to doing a terrible job on his own car after seeing what a well sprayed car looks like!

[jta430]

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so finally got round to redipping the S4 went with a custom blue i mixed up its different, thats for sure.

also put my euro headlights in they make so much difference to the look of the front end.

[PRY4SNO]

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Looks lago blue! Not bad

[Ur0Drivr]

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Very nice Jamie!