Looks great Dawg!!

 

Look into this product from 3M. Not as cheap as plastidip, but designed to the exact task your looking for. Lots of reviews on youtube.

@amcdonal86: Plastidip has been around and used for some time now in the ricer world. It is actually quite durable considering its cost and simple application...

 

Here's a guy that used clear coat plastidip in combination with the glossifier on his lights.

 

In some pics, glossifier over flat black looks like charcoal while silver metalizer over flat black looks like gunmetal.

I just put on the 1st coat of glossifier. Hope it stays gloss black instead of charcoal.

 

I've had my rims plasti dipped for a few months. Aside from the HUGE improvement to perceived brake dust on the rims, I found an immense advantage in fixing curb rash...

I dinged my passenger side rear wheel recently, a decent scuff, and rather than having the wheel removed and repaired I just put another layer of plasti dip over it as a temporary fix. I have to look VERY hard to find the scuff now, the plasti dip seems to stick to the old layer find and really hides the scuff. I get fixated over little imperfections, so I was certain I'd have to have the rim professionally repaired, but it all but vanishes. I'll wait till I scuff it up again before having it repaired since the damage is only cosmetic and is honestly only detectable by feel.

Great product.

Skeeter

 

I heard P-dipped wheels are hard to clean and eventually begin to brown from the dirt sticking to the rubber-like texture of plastidip. Is this true?

Btw, here are some nice tips for dipping wheels with rivets... scroll down to bottom.

tips on spraying plasti dip can on face of 3 piece wheel [Archive] - DipYourCar.com Plasti Dip Community Forum

 

No browning for me after four or so months and some pretty heavy driving... I'll keep an eye out but haven't heard this. I'd think the clear coat would keep the color from changing, but who knows.

Gotta say it surprised me how good they look, especially with the red calipers. Best of all, if you don't like or if they discolor or whatever, it can be removed easily and completely.

Still considering doing the headlights... The video shows a guy putting several layers of clear pasti dip followed by four layers of glossifier. Finished product looked nice, impossible to tell there was anything on the lights. I guess I haven't given much thought to headlight damage/discoloration, or how much it'd cost to swap out a scuffed and pitted set out with new pieces from Jaguar as an alternative.

Skeeter

 

Thanks Skeeter. What about the holes for the lugnuts starting the peel from the lugs and socket going in?

Would you have no problem doing your 3 piece custom wheels? I ask because I have no issue doing my Nevis but tend to shudder at doing my Cor wheels...

 

Hmmm...wouldn't want to give bad advice, this is not something I had to deal with... I removed the wheels before having them sprayed with the plasti dip, and they've been taken off once since with no damage.

As far as 3-piece wheels though I wouldn't know. I'm sure the folks at dipyourwheels have encountered this question before, maybe shoot them an email?

Let us know,

Skeeter

 

There is a dude locally that I met at Cars and Coffee that dos a bunch of stuff including wraps etc and is an authorized Plastidip dealer. Yes, they now have dealers and folks supposedly certified to do work. I could do it myself but given the cost of my wheels, the time I would spend etc the $200 quoted seems fair as it also includes like $40 in cans plus all the other tools he would us to do a quality job plus his labor.

May go this route, we'll see.

 

Definitely! I had a body shop do the job with me and they charged me close to that. They did remove the wheels and dip all the rim, even the inside...

Skeeter

 

So I finally installed the plastidip winter wheels on my Rover as we're suppose to get some wintery mix next week. For alittle more than $40 (4 cans of flat black and 2 cans of glossifier), you can't go wrong. Thanks to this post, I went ahead and plasti-dip my wheels.

 

Wow, looks awesome!!! Black on black always works! I've been driving in some pretty nasty conditions over the last days, no sign of the plastidip failing yet.

 

Very nice Ghost. Did you remove the wheels or just do the plastic bag thing? I would have to use the wire twisty cover thingys to cover my rivets so I may need to remove my wheels.

Since I'm 3 piece I may just pay the shop.

 

Good to hear Marko! Hope it will last me through the winter.

Evoking....I did dip these wheels when they were off the car. These are my OEM wheels in which I use for winter so they were off at the time when I plasti-dip them.

After plasti-dip these wheels I'm planning to probably powder coat my Rover's summer wheels in gloss black and also possibly my XKR wheels. Plasti-dip is great but I prefer the gloss black look and after 3 cans of glossifier on the flat black plasti-dip, it turned out more satin black then gloss black. I can't complain though as just under $50 (4 can of flat black and 3 cans of glossifier), they turn out better than I expected and the best part is that you can peel them off if you don't like the look anymore. We'll see how durable it is going through a harsh winter.

 

Update: Almost one year on and I got my first tearing of the plastidip on my wheels. Should be easy to touch up since I'll just have to spray the areas that tore loose. The surface underneath looks as good as the day I put the stuff on. While I'm touching it up I think I'll add the glossifier this time.

It only tore because I put some tire-shine petroleum-based stuff to make it look wet, which I've done before, but this time I rubbed it with a cloth. Just like the bug-and-tar remover it started to come right off. Oh well, easy fix.

The important thing to note is that road and weather wear did NOT damage the plastidip at all over the past year. Only me.

 

Touching up my rims tonight. I plan on using glossifier to see if I can hold onto a bit of shine.