dipped my wheels 2 or 3 weeks ago. if your doing it outside do not do it when its below 45 degrees. it gets air bubbles and doesnt spray well or lay on the rim very good either. i did 2 rims in my garage which was heated and you can tell what 2 were done in cold and the 2 that were done inside the garage in the heat. plus the tip stayed alot cleaner and sprayed better when warm. also for everyone else. make sure to get 4 cans. 1 can for 2 wheels will not do very good for you. and if your doing it with nice tires on your car use note cards in the edge of the rim. tape takes twice as long and note cards do the job better IMO. plus its cheaper than tape!
4 cans... really? I think that may just be in your application style. 2 cans should be fine. 3 if you are really worried, but I think 4 would be overkill.
Took me almost 4 cans to do my 18in bbs black. They have a lot of spokes so it took a lot to get coverage on the insides of the spokes.
I did my brother's MS3 wheels exactly the same way. Probably close to 10 light coats and it was only 2 cans.
So, I bought another set of rs 6 spokes from a local member, but the green was just too common for my liking.. So, we had to try something a little more obnoxious. WARNING CELL PHONE PICTURES AHEAD... At first I thought I should be masking off the wheels, well, a little digging on DipYourCar.com and I noticed that you can get by without any masking.. I removed the tape and gave it two coats of the white base.. After I let the first two coats of white dry, I applied my first of the blaze yeller. All said and done, I applied 2 coats of the plastidip white and three of the plastidip blaze yellow... All said and done, I am pretty happy with the end results. I have a half of can of white left and almost two cans of the yellow.. I will keep them for next year or any touch up work that may need to happen.
I didn't mask mine and it was TERRIBLE! My hakkas have so much patterened texture on the side walls that I ended up scrubbing the over spray off with a wire brush and paint thinner.
Using index cards like my photos above is likely less time than removing the Plasti Dip overspray (even if it does come off easily). The index card method is really next to zero effort and works great.
Yeah, in hindsight, I would have much rather kept them taped off, but... Well, chubbywrx (Nate) said "we should be fine, giver hell" and well, the rest is painful history..
I dipped my benz wheels the gunmetal (which I ended up peeling off after mounting tires) but it came off the tire without issue. Looking good!
Did you guys do anything specific to prep your wheels before applying the plastidip? I'm thinking about pulling into a heated garage and doing this to my winter wheels to make them a little more fun.
just clean them really well. The joy of plasti dip is that you don't need to sand and prep wheels before you spray it on. There are tons of Youtube videos on application as well.
spray your tires with some kind of tire shine (Armor All) before you spray the rims with color. the overspray usually wipes right off!
Make sure you are protecting whats behind the wheels if you just "pull in" to a heated garage. Unless you mean pull the wheels off while in the garage... Then you will be just fine
I have a set of unmounted 2004 LGT wheels (the multi spoke style). Should I dip them after I mount the tires or before? And how hard is it going to be to peel it off this style of wheel when the time comes?
Honestly, I would mount the rubbers and then dip the wheels.. Index card method would be the best bet. Unless you have 100% confidence in the tech that is mounting the wheels on the rims after they are sprayed, you most likely have some scuffs/scratches to the wheel lip. From what I have seen about plastidip, all it takes is a little source to start filling with salt/water/gravel/etc to start pealing up.
Anyone use the green before, I'm thinking about repainting my bike green. Looking to get close to the kawisaki green, any opinions help.
