![]() ![]() I probably wiped the whole thing down with rubbing alcahol and the pre-dip wash about 3 or 4 times after taking it to the car wash, don't use any weird rinse coatings or wax when you do because you need the car to be free of any waxes and films before you dip. Take your car to the car wash and wash the shit out of it at least 24 hours before you start with the pre-dip wash. We watched how-to videos between coats as well. Watch all the instructional videos you can, the first person perspective one, and all the stuff you can find about masking and un-masking. Having a friend around to help was super useful. Here's some tips since they are fresh in my mind:ĭ has some kits that are specified as beginner level, with the easiest colors. I dipped a full car for the first time today (although i was doing it with a friend who had done it once before) and there's a few little mistakes here and there but I'm *so* happy i did it. So I'm hoping that I can just start spraying over my existing paint with no primer needed? Do I need to use primer? I'm really hoping not because I want to do a good job of course but I've spent so much time already on my truck paint and I want to get this done asap. Do I need to mix anything up when I get my 4 gallons in? Or is it like just pour the paint from the gallon cans into the paint gun sprayer and don't have to mix anything? Also primer. Do you know if they are harder to spray? And also I don't know shit about paint sprayers and having to mix different chemicals like paint thinner with paint color. I really want to use a color shift dip paint because they looks so cool. ![]() I'm about to order a few gallons of paint but having a hard tim3 deciding which color. I actually just ordered a spray gun on Amazon that's supposed to be good for thick paint like plasti dip, it was around 60 because I don't want to pay close to 200 for the actual spray gun DYC has in its website. Thanks for the suggestions! I've been watching a lot of YT videos on it. Suggestions and tips would be appreciated!! Tired of being embarrassed by all the shit I fucked up on. I can work with that amount but idk if I should be going down that road? I really want my paint fixed. I'm really thinking about ordering a few gallons and a plasti dip spray gun for around $500 total. So my last attempt is to plasti dip my entire truck. I've looked around at some other paint shops and I just don't have the money to spend on it. I've tried going to maaco but they keep quoting me 1200+ for a new paint job(won't go any lower, I've tried). All blotchy now and I'm fucking tired of trying to fix this shit. Entire doors(driver side only) and like a dumb ass I thought the hood would be easier to paint so i took it off and. Been trying to correct it for the past 8 or so months and it's getting worse because it's no longer just the upper door where the sun damaged the paint it's now both doors are completely fucked up. Then I used 2k clear and that got fucked up. Wasn't nothing major but I really wanted to improve it(never painted a car before) so I got some rattle cans and. But when I bought it It had some paint damage from the sun along the door handles on both the driver and driver side back door. If you can teach yourself to build the car, you can teach yourself to paint the car.Little back story. Even using modern paint I can generally cut and buff out most of my mistakes. Yes, lacquer is high maintenance, but its doable. That car is gorgeous and came out of his garage. I mean look at the lacquer on PGAN's sedan. I think its just an excuse for don't want to spend, and not willing to put in the labor. But decent quality drive quality paint isn't all that bad, and if you're cheap like me you can teach yourself to do something livable in your garage. Show car paint is gawd awful expensive, but most of us don't own show quality cars. I admit I am the guy that parks farther out in the parking lot to avoid door dings, but hell I need the exercise anyway. I drive them everywhere and they are not destroyed. Where do you drive? My OT daily drivers are both black, and both worth more than any Hot Rod I've owned. ![]() I also never understood this excuse that "if I paint it nice, I can't drive it". Why anyone would want to replicate this with paint is beyond me. And now it seems like a contest to see how crappy it can be. Left out in a field for fifty years then clear coated to "preserve" the rot and destruction - I just don't see the appeal. It has taken on character with age and use. A paint job that has aged and worn a bit. To me Patina is illustrated by a car like HRP's 32' sedan. I think the word Patina has been bastardized along the way. But its yours, so the only opinion that matters is yours. If it were mine it would get painted in some form. ![]()
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