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Offline Mk1golfnoob

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Plasti-dip
« on: 25 January 2013, 23:32 »
Anyeone had any bad experiences with full Car dips and what's it like to do on this scale, my mk1 needs doing and am liking the look of the camo green, pics of dips on any shape/model vw ?
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Offline SoundillusioN

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Re: Plasti-dip
« Reply #1 on: 25 January 2013, 23:49 »
Looked into this myself.... Spookily I was only watching some tube vids last night on the matter.  Have a gander, some very informative vids on there if you haven't already.

Its the sort of thing worth doing yourself.  Looks a piece of pee compared to what I ended up doing with mine.
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Offline Mk1golfnoob

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Re: Plasti-dip
« Reply #2 on: 26 January 2013, 00:01 »
Yh I've seen a few but wanted to know what people actually thought and my cars had a respray but it's not great and was a bit of a botch job as I said in another post so not too bothered about that just want the finish to be ok
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Offline SoundillusioN

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Re: Plasti-dip
« Reply #3 on: 26 January 2013, 00:11 »
Well my thoughts are I think stuff looks great and easy to work with, seen a set of wheels done once and the finish was spot on, easy to remove if applied thick enough. experience of actually using it is something I haven't got.  However, like you I am getting more curious about the idea and would be tempted to do mine one day.
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Offline Mk1golfnoob

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Re: Plasti-dip
« Reply #4 on: 26 January 2013, 01:02 »
Yh think this is the way I'm going to go so in a few months I'll creat a post of before and after and what I found it was like
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Offline Bellend

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Re: Plasti-dip
« Reply #5 on: 26 January 2013, 02:29 »
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Offline Seanl

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Re: Plasti-dip
« Reply #6 on: 26 January 2013, 08:18 »
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Offline willsgolf

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Re: Plasti-dip
« Reply #7 on: 27 January 2013, 10:47 »
I just sprayed my astra h grill with the stuff because its a works van so wanted something i could remove if the boss didn't approve of etc :D luckily he liked it so all is good, when i first put it on i couldn't belive that it would dry well or look reasonably smooth but it did in the end so just be careful when you apply should be fine.

I spotted this one in the future father in laws mg magazine don't ask me why he spends money on it but each to their own lol i still have a cheeky look :s but still thought it looked cool

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=250654
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Re: Plasti-dip
« Reply #8 on: 20 February 2013, 09:05 »
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Re: Plasti-dip
« Reply #9 on: 22 February 2013, 17:02 »
Did my front badge with this stuff but found tiny stone chips actually remove it.
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