stich, i'll take pictures of it for u 2morrow, its sitting inside my cupholder right now cuz i dont wanna lose it b4 i repaint..repainting sunday...when its nice and sunny out...right now its too humid paint wont turn out nice

 

^ thanks buddy! I might do my grille on Sunday too! does i have to wait 24 hours before i can use the car? or is it just the waiting time for the paint to settle?

 

Soooo About getting the car detailed after that......

 

it should be fine after 2 hours max to drive the car
i waited 45 mins before i drove my car when i painted my calipers with caliper paint and it was fine lol

 

yea hopefully sunday it wont be humid but yea plastidip recommends 4 hr drying time

 

Mine was driven as soon as it was finished drying pretty much LOL it still looks fine. Still gonna wait another day to wash it though.

 

these are wat im using to fill the hole in my bumper, it fits snug, around 75 cent each @ homedepot

and u can take them out w/ a screw driver


bottom of the button

see how thin it is?

 

^^ that's a neat idea... I just stuck in the original plate rubber pieces LOL cost to me: FREE!

Though I'm sure not everyone kept those when they switched to side-mounted.

 

oh, those ones! yeah, I've seen those before. I'll pick one up when I'm about to do my bumpers. I just bought a can of plasti dip - the last one! (whew!) but it kinda suck a bit coz it ain't on sale! (damn, HH branch! hahaha) oh well.

So do you guys suggest to do both the grille and bumper at the same time? or can I do them separately but with the same amount of coats? coz I still have the vinyl on the bumper (altho it's a half inch short on all 4 sides! lol), but I can take out the grille now and just paint them in the basement and install back before midnight.

I still have mine. Figured I might need it in the future.

 

i woud suggest u take them apart and doing them, but i took them apart and did them @ the same time

 

just curious how thick of coat did every one put? my final coat just now is like completely wet and really thick, cuz the first time my coats were thin and it didnt work out that well

 

so to make it short, i meesed up the first 2 coats so im respraying it again..
im on the 2nd coat now..lol

 

ok i guess heres my diy w/ pix =P

so here im removing the old plasti dip coat which i messed up...too thin, and looked splotchy
notice how paint job remains mint =)


this first layer of tape will last u the entire session, lay it a bit away from where u intend to spray



after rough out line completed, lay out news paper around to prevent over spray, and make the removeable layer of tape that over laps the previous layer of tape and goes to the edges u wish to cut the paint off @
this layer of tape should be remove 10 MINS after each coat, any more than 10 mins and u'll need to use a razor blade to help,


here is the final, layer, make sure ur layers are thick and wet especially ur final layer




and to cover up the holes heres what i whiped up 70 cents from home depot covered in plasti dip

 

Home Hardware didnt have it

On the Plasti Dip website they said Walmart, Lowes and Home Depot have it. any luck finding those in the Canadian stores?

 

I might head to Home Depot on Sunday, I can check for you.
But I'm guessing not that much people use this coz when I picked it up today, they only have one can for each color left (clear coat, white, black, red, blue, and yellow)
They do have 2 cans of each color but not on the rattle spray can.
I might check another Home Hardware branch and if they have it, you want me to pick it up for you? Oh, and just a head's up, they weren't on sale! lol..or atleast here in the Ajax branch.