plasti dip my truck?

1997tj

1997tj

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Has anyone used plasti dip on there ride? A Nissan xterra came in the shop today and was plasti dipped in there camo green color. It looked good. Just a flat hunter green color. What is the benefit of this stuff? Why cant I just get camo green spray paint and spray it for way cheaper. Durability? Better color?
 
That is a plus. The kit with the sprayer is like 330 bucks. Id hate to peel that back off
 
I have recently just powder coated my whole jeep cj7.
Looks great
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Just use spray bombs if you are doing a camo paint job
 
1997tj said:
Has anyone used plasti dip on there ride? A Nissan xterra came in the shop today and was plasti dipped in there camo green color. It looked good. Just a flat hunter green color. What is the benefit of this stuff? Why cant I just get camo green spray paint and spray it for way cheaper. Durability? Better color?
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Spend a couple hours (or days) sanding and painting your rig, make it look decent, then spend another hour sanding and painting a fender/quarter panel when you gouge the graph out of it on the trail. With plasti dip, just peel off the area, mask and coat. Granted, you could just respray you fender with the rattle can, but without sanding first, it won't look the same.
 
We did my buddy's tahoe and his mustang. Yes the kit was about $300 to get started. After that you can buy any color you want by the gallon for $60. He did the tahoe with 2 gallons and also the mustang with 2 gallons. Just a couple more coats on the mustang.
 
A guy I work with sprayed his entire Jeep about 2 months ago and he's still very happy. It looks very good!
I might could get pics?
 
Thanks for all the info. Its a 1990 isuzu pickup. Its just my pos run to work/hunting truck. Way better gas mileage than driving the jeep. I drive the truck everyday its just hard for me to pay 300 dollars to paint a 500 dollar truck. Im really just worried how its gonna look when I get done. I keep going back and forth. The paint job isnt in bad shape but when I sit in the truck and hunt the silver paint job sticks out like a sore thumb. And I think it would look cool ha
 
I wonder how many plasti dip spray cans it would take? It might be cheaper to buy a bunch of those instead of that whole kit
 
ai1077.photobucket.com_albums_w474_bannerp_Mobile_20Uploads_IMG_0060_zps085c6166.jpg My buddy did a complete plasti dip on his car. Takes a lot of spray cans Like mcutler said. You can buy a kit direct from the site and spray it from a pot gun with a 1.4 tip or larger
 
1997tj said:
Thanks for all the info. Its a 1990 isuzu pickup. Its just my pos run to work/hunting truck. Way better gas mileage than driving the jeep. I drive the truck everyday its just hard for me to pay 300 dollars to paint a 500 dollar truck. Im really just worried how its gonna look when I get done. I keep going back and forth. The paint job isnt in bad shape but when I sit in the truck and hunt the silver paint job sticks out like a sore thumb. And I think it would look cool ha
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If its a $500 hunting truck, why not just rattle can it for $50?
 
I think thats what I am going to do. It was my grandpas truck and I do drive it a lot so Im hesitant to spray it. Well Ill be honest, I am a little scared ha If I dont like the outcome I am pretty much screwed
 
Both plasti dip cans and rattle cans will not look very uniform when sprayed across a large surface. If you want to get fancy with it buy a $10 HF spray gun and some cheap OMNI or other automotive finish and give it a shot. It will turn out way better and last a lot longer. You'd be in it for about a hundred bucks. There is no way I'd drop $200 or more on a plasti dip kit. You could get it Maaco'd for that.
 
I did it on my jeep and would never do it again on a vehicle that has hinges, steel, or custom ruff parts on it. Pain in the ass to get off. But if I had a smooth car then why not. But for a woods truck nope just spray paint it
 
You can get tractor/implement paint at Tractor Supply cheaper than automotive paint, but its cheaper for a reason (doesn't look as good). Make sure you use hardener if you go that route and clear coat it if you don't want it to fade. I painted my old ranger for about $80, but I didn't opt for the clear coat and it faded after a few months (didn't bother me).

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