Plasti Dip

[audi321]

Hi all. I know Vinyl wraps are discussed a fair bit on here, but has anyone seen this plasti dip? It's basically a spray on wrap. Easy to apply apparently, and a third of the cost of wrapping and comes off easily.

From what I can see, it's like a thick balloon latex type spray on.

Could be an alternative for some? Has anyone tried/seen it applied?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4NUjVh3zTA

[TREMAiNE]

This thread crops up frequently.

A friend has used it on various bits of trim and it looks good. Don't know what it would look like on the whole car though.

[cheesesliceking]

Check the Plasti dip thred on NASIOC, it has a lot of info.

[Steve_W]

Any good with a spray gun (or even a brush apparently!)? You could have a go yourself:

http://www.frost.co.uk/coatings/eastwood-elastiwra...

[DannyScene]

I'll be having my Gen 7 celica done before the end of the year, its 11 years old now and the paint has not been looked after in the slightest so I figured why not

Still deciding on a colour at the moment but for a fraction of the cost of a wrap I'm definitely taking a punt

[SarGara]

I've bought an aerosol can of matt black with the intention of repainting some of my faded plastic trim on my now 10yr old Clio Trophy. Unfortunately I havent got around to it just yet but heres hoping the weather holds out on the bank holiday so I can give it a bash. For £16 I felt it was worth a go regardless of the outcome.

[audi321]

I've bought an aerosol to test it out and it really is amazing stuff. I didn't really put it on with much care and it seems to level out and finish really nice on it's own. Obviously a matt finish, so I don't know what this 'glossifier' is like to deal with.

[Bradley1500]

Cheap way of getting a full respray or colour change, but IMO looks cheap once completed.

My friend had his Audi A3 fully plastidipped and I wasn't impressed. The finish was very rough and it constantly looked dirty.

The finish marred very easily, especially if you were touching the dip with greasy or oily hands.

Removing it isn't particularly easy either. Maybe it was a poor product or poorly applied, being a new technology and without seeing other plastidip results its hard to tell.

As for glossifier I have no first hand experience of this but the guys who applied the dip to my friends car warned that the glossifier marred even easier than the base plastidip and is tremendously hard to remove, flaking off rather than peeling like a traditional wrap.