MGTF - New car in a tin. Whole car 'Plastidipped'.

I'm sick of yellow so would go for something completely different I think.

I like the look of the shade of red on the website, but having seen it on the inside of your doors I realise it comes up much brighter than it looks... Fluorescent green might be ok, or fluorescent purple just to be different...!

Have you any previous experience of spraying or were you a complete novice? Approx how long does a coat take to dry? I'm just thinking I could spray a panel at a time in the comfort of a heated bay at work :lol:

The red is a little bright, the more coats you get on the darker it becomes, first coat went on almost pink. I was close to just wiping it all off!!!

With the amount it cost and the fact that you can just peel it off whenever you might as well go for a pretty outlandish colour!

I have never painted anything with wheels on in my life, and definatly no experience with rattle cans! The coats take about 5 mins to dry to the point where you can put another coat on. It takes about 24 hours to fully cure.

If I had access to a decent sized garage it would have helped, less of the paint would have been lost to the wind! ha!

Having seen how easy it is to remove, I'm even more tempted now.

So you reckon about 14 cans in total (car only, not wheels) would do it?

The more coats put on the better the finish and the easier it comes off. If its put on too thin then it just shreds when you try to peel it off.

Yea 14-15 cans should be enough, should leave a can left over for touching up should anything happen.

Psymon wrote: Its been a while since we've given out an award.
So the first Baldrick award of the year goes to Luckymarine for this brilliant idea

:woohoo: Well deserved. Congratulations. :woohoo:

fast jan wrote: I'm sick of yellow so would go for something completely different I think.

I like the look of the shade of red on the website, but having seen it on the inside of your doors I realise it comes up much brighter than it looks... Fluorescent green might be ok, or fluorescent purple just to be different...!

Have you any previous experience of spraying or were you a complete novice? Approx how long does a coat take to dry? I'm just thinking I could spray a panel at a time in the comfort of a heated bay at work :lol:

Gone on do it, we need a women who can on here, and you would do a fab job

Softly~Softly wrote: Gone on do it, we need a women who can on here, and you would do a fab job

I'm not sure about doing a fab job, but let's face it my bodywork is shabby at best so anything would be an improvement :lol:

The only thing I'm a little unsure about is the matt finish - I might wait until the gloss is available, I guess for myself, I prefer a slightly more standard look and black is certainly a colour I have considered when thinking of a respray . I think black would also work well with leaving the door jams yellow - but to make a 'copy cat' version would take too much of the originality away from this.. so I need to ponder on it a while before jumping in with both feet (for a change)

Well whatever you do I am sure it will look fab, and be far cheaper than a respray
I will make the tea, take photos and be generally useless, as usual

Had a quick blast down to Clitheroe today in the Blackbird, first time its stretched its legs since its makeover.

On the way back had to pass a gritter on the M6 which should have been a good test of the durability of the plasti dip as by my reckoning the impact force of the salt/grit hitting me was at least 100mph.

So am going to wash the car tomorrow, will take before and after pics, will point out any damage to the plasti dip and also time exactly how long it takes. I'm guessing If I start at 9 I'll be done by 10! will not be used to that, normally cleaning would take me 3-4 hours!

How did the cleanup go?

Snowed today so thought I'd leave it till a dry day, its still got all the gunk from the gritter on it so gunky and dry - to wet and cleaning - back to dry want to photo all 3 stages.