Plasti Dip on your 1 - let's see your photos/videos

[jose9094]

Originally Posted by Jettt

Ordered some new rims, decided to dip these for the meantime.

5 coats of black on each with 3 coats of gloss

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nice job!! can you post or pm a pic of your car with the painted wheels?

I have the same wheels on my car and thinking of doing it! and want to know how they look!


Thanks

[ansch]

another black 261

[somer]

Originally Posted by royallecaf

I got bored, so I did my wheels and side marker
5 coats of plastidip, and then 3 coats of duplicolor clear gloss coat




I don't mind the look, but the 313's aren't as eye-catching when it was the original color

Curious what suspension setup you have on your car? The drop seems perfect.

[Harlequin]

[chiewy]

Originally Posted by jose9094

nice job!! can you post or pm a pic of your car with the painted wheels?

I have the same wheels on my car and thinking of doing it! and want to know how they look!


Thanks

+1

[indianasc13]

What do you guys think?

[indianasc13]

hey guys. Heres my set up. Overall im impressed with the quality of Plastidip. The wheels look smooth, and the rubber peeled right off the tire. Sorry for the crappy iphone pics

[kobeballer96]

Originally Posted by GermX-85

That Green, sick man. nice job. might do that to my winter stocks!

[J-Sin]

Old picture of my dipped matte white 135i.

[Chandon]

5 coats of black 3 light coats of gloss for a "satin black" look

[Jettt]

Originally Posted by chiewy

+1

Yeah cool.
Its funny because I never saw anyone with the same style rim.
I thought it was a little weird.

Heres a few pics:

[Jettt]

I have changed the wheels since ive dipped the oem ones


But I also dipped the rear diffuser and window side trim and badging.
I dont have a great pic of the side trim ill try and get one.

[bfodle]

Any idea on how many cans needed to do four wheels? (Including clear?)

[631twentyeighteye]

count on one can of desired color for each wheel, and a can or two of gloss for all 4, depending on how glossy you want them.

The white dipped 1 looks awesome. under my blue is AW, so eventually i think im gonna do pearl white and keep it long term. I love the fact that the dip is protecting the paint beneath it.

[SGJB135i]

Originally Posted by 631twentyeighteye

count on one can of desired color for each wheel, and a can or two of gloss for all 4, depending on how glossy you want them.

The white dipped 1 looks awesome. under my blue is AW, so eventually i think im gonna do pearl white and keep it long term. I love the fact that the dip is protecting the paint beneath it.

How does your plasti dip react to rain snow etc? Also how long do you think it'll last ? Thinking of doing this!

[631twentyeighteye]

Originally Posted by Jetblack135

How does your plasti dip react to rain snow etc? Also how long do you think it'll last ? Thinking of doing this!

I get this question all the time:

The dip holds up better than i expected it would. It's been on for about 3 months, i sprayed it on at the end of july if i recall correctly. I mixed 3 gallons of dip with 1 gallon of pearlizer into a bucket a long with some custom tinting and used just over 3/4 of that, leaving me with just over a half a gallon of left over dip for touching up(just in case).

My car is daily driven regardless of weather conditions and garage kept when not in use. It does sit in the weather on days where i work or have school. The dip isn't peeling up anyplace besides the inside of the door handles, and that's mostly because of their constant use. It isn't visible what so ever and is only pulling up about a quarter inch. The inner part of the wheel wells that is body colored is also dipped and is probably the most worn part(duh). It's peeling back a bit on the verrryy bottom, about an inch of the paint is exposed here but it doesn't bother me much. I have cleaned the car literally one time since i dipped it.. I've hosed it down a few times to get dust and dirt off, but only one full thorough hand wash. The color surprisingly hides dirt very well and water and loose debris usually just flows right off of it. Cleaning it is honestly a bit more time consuming than the factory paint since it takes a bit more effort to, for lack of better words, scrub the dip. With that being said, i did notice the color was a bit brighter when cleaned, and the dip washer was pretty filthy when i was done regardless of the 2 bucket method.

I plan on either dipping it another color in the spring, or peeling it and rocking the factory paint again for a while.. Regardless i'm going to continue to dip my car for the winter. I'm positive the dip is keeping many rock chips, scratches, swirls, marring, or bird sh!t from messing up the factory paint and the color change is just a fun bonus for me. I'd definitely recommend it to those who are not faint hearted.. it's scary to spray tool handle coating onto your car, especially your BMW. However, once you spray on the first few coats you'll see how well the Plasti dip really coats and dry's and feel much better about it. The only thing that's really a pain in my ass about the dip is that i got overspray on everything in my garage (noob mistake) and getting the little bit of dip out of the door jams and weird little places is truly going to suck. I'll update whenever i peel on how that goes


edit: and yes, i did it myself with the help of 1 buddy for masking. Total time committed: 1.5 hours of masking (windsheild, windows, rear window, sunroof, headlights, kidney's, lower grills, foglights, brake lights, third brake light, mirrors and wheels), 5 hours of spraying the dip while taking my sweet time and giving it 15 minute drying periods between coats. I'm sure i can cut the total time down to about 5 hours for the entire masking and spraying process. Also don't forget to drive the car up on a rag/paper/some sort of protection to keep all the dip from getting on your cement floor like me.

[Billup]

Wheels and antenna. Thinking about doing the door trim this week.

[GermX-85]

just plasti dip the trunk with alittle black.

[J-Rod]

So I had a can of Smoke Plasti Dip lying around and decided to put it to use. I had already done the side markers, so I tried to do my own Amber Gone

It came out pretty good IMO. You just mask (with vinyl or flexible tape) and spray away as you normally would plasti dip anything else. But before the last layer dries up you pull away the tape from the headlight. TIP: Do this carefully, if you pull the masking surrounding the headlight the clean up will be a little less friendly.

[P90Puma]

Originally Posted by GermX-85

just plasti dip the trunk with alittle black.

your car reminds me of a racoon.

[Fifty3bags]

Originally Posted by GermX-85

just plasti dip the trunk with alittle black.

Hmm. That looks really good. I think I may do just the indention in the trunk for the plate on mine now. I also need to do my emblems on my wheels, ran out of left over overlays from my previous 1.

[GermX-85]

Originally Posted by P90Puma

your car reminds me of a racoon.

i can see that now