Ugly John
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I just tried to plasti-dip my badges, but with black Rust-oleum Peel Coat. I had seen it at a auto-parts store and figured if it was Rust-oleum, it must be good!
Wrong
So I masked off the side and the rear emblems, and put 5 good coats of gloss black Rust-oleum Peel Coat on. I followed with another 5 coats of Plasti-Dip graphite metalizer.
The result was fantastic! Exactly what I wanted, and sexy as hell - it matched my gun-metal wheels perfectly, wasn't as dark as if I had went with just blacking them out, and def not as bright as the original chrome.
While I was doing this, I was also plasti-dipping the cheapo-spoiler on my son's Pontiac G6 - the clear coat was peeling, and this seemed like the easiest way to fix it, without really fixing it.
The G6 came out great, and it peeled right off the adjacent crappy paint. This was especially impressive since he hadn't waxed the car in about 3 years.
So then I go to peel it off my Mustang... The Peel Coat was so damned thin it wouldn't peel for crap, and when it did, it didn't break at the edges, instead trying to pull off the emblems. Pulling it out of the dots on the "5.0" looked like hell.
So I spent the next 45 minutes taking the crap back off in little tiny pieces, all the while writing nasty-grams to Rust-oleum in my mind.:rant:
The one positive is I didn't have time to properly mask off the front pony today, so I didn't mess with that at all.
I'll definitely do it again, but with the real Plasti-Dip this time....
Wrong
So I masked off the side and the rear emblems, and put 5 good coats of gloss black Rust-oleum Peel Coat on. I followed with another 5 coats of Plasti-Dip graphite metalizer.
The result was fantastic! Exactly what I wanted, and sexy as hell - it matched my gun-metal wheels perfectly, wasn't as dark as if I had went with just blacking them out, and def not as bright as the original chrome.
While I was doing this, I was also plasti-dipping the cheapo-spoiler on my son's Pontiac G6 - the clear coat was peeling, and this seemed like the easiest way to fix it, without really fixing it.
The G6 came out great, and it peeled right off the adjacent crappy paint. This was especially impressive since he hadn't waxed the car in about 3 years.
So then I go to peel it off my Mustang... The Peel Coat was so damned thin it wouldn't peel for crap, and when it did, it didn't break at the edges, instead trying to pull off the emblems. Pulling it out of the dots on the "5.0" looked like hell.
So I spent the next 45 minutes taking the crap back off in little tiny pieces, all the while writing nasty-grams to Rust-oleum in my mind.:rant:
The one positive is I didn't have time to properly mask off the front pony today, so I didn't mess with that at all.
I'll definitely do it again, but with the real Plasti-Dip this time....
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