I've been watching videos all night about this stuff. Seems like a cool easy way to change the color of a car from black to white. Totally reversible. Anyone seen one of these cars?

 

I've done my rims and it works great!!

 

A search for plastidip will reveal the "craze" that struck a while back.. LOL.

 

Why would you cover a beautiful finish with a crap, cheap product? That is Crossfire abuse.

 

Crap and cheap? Explain this

 

LOL it doesn't hurt the paint. I want a white SRT 6 come hell or high water. I have been looking at several white Audi RS8s done in white an it looks pretty good. Not saying I'm going to do it, but even if I did it wouldn't hurt anything.

 

EXACTLY you can do a cool finish you wont get the metallic finish it will be a matte color or you can use the glossifier and it will give it a shiny finish

 

Please don't.

 

He's 18 and you are an old man to him, so that request is like water of a ducks back. LOL

 

I'm 47.

Like I said, I've been watching lots of videos and pictures. When done incorrectly it looks bad. I've watched a lot of videos from places that do this for a living and the result it pretty amazing.

I'm also looking at vinyl wrap places that can do a "paint" vinyl wrap that looks like paint. So I'll probably end up doing that.

Lots of close mindedness here with little information. If you know me and my cars, you'll know I don't do anything half assed. My Xfire was one of the cleanest and best looking ones anywhere.

 

If its done right it looks good.. I love the stuff. I used it on my emblems and it has the perfect satin black powdercoat look, but I can peel it off at any time. It's very resistant to rock chips, but still comes off easily once you lift an edge. If you do a whole car it will look horrible if you use the rattle cans, it'll only look even if you use the whole car kit with the gun.

 

haha easley i like your rims they look great don't get offended some guys i have been to shows comment that i ruined a crossfire since i put air ride, subs, and racing seats in it but it all looks great and not half assed

 

Haha thank you!! And even though I am 18 I like to listen to people that are older because they are more expirenced than I am!! I'm not a disrespectful teenager I was just wondering why y'all thought it was cheap and a crap product!

 

In the process right now of dipping my SSB to Firebelly Orange with black accents. Pics to come soon!

 

Ought to be different..

 

Dont listen to the plain vanilla nay sayers. Do your thing and post some pictures. You can always undo it. Good luck from an old fart (68).

 

For the record I wouldn't be doing this with rattle cans. LOL Why does everyone always think about some dummy doing stuff in his garage with some beer and ruining his car. I'm taking it to a professional detail/paint shop that does this. If I don't like it I'll peel it off. I'm having my Porsche wrapped in gloss vinyl white to compare the difference. Its 23 years old and the original paint is still glossy but not as bright as it used to be. Needs to be refreshed but a new paint job is 6.5k :O

We'll see how this turns out. Need to decide which SRT I'm going to buy. I've been racking my brain going over the negatives and positives. Not crazy about modded cars, but so many of the SRTs are modded. The original cars are way over my budget. sucks.

 

I wouldn't sweat the modded SRTs... 90% of the mods people have installed are 'external' to the motor... meaning the integrity of the engine should be the same/similar to the stock-as-a-rock SRTs with similar mileage. I bought mine with the NW single, EC tune and 65mm pulley installed... 12.3 the first time I ran it. best part, I paid the same for this car as I would have for another SRT in stock condition.

As for the Plasti-dip, I've simply seen too many train-wrecks in person. Professional examples exist, but the same can be said for crushed velvet interiors. As with anything, if you do it properly you'll get good results. It's all in the technician applying it, and the prep-work.

 

i don't mind people who keep the xfire OEM and like it that way or people like me who want to keep modifying it as long as the work is quality i see nothing wrong with the spectrum...but I personally don't like the new fad with most of the younger generation now a days with putting flamboyant colors (bright orange, teal, pink, lime green) on there rims that totally ruin the contrast with the color of their cars...

 

lol hahaha those rims look pretty nice haha but there is an orange on for you!! hahahahaha