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Old May 1, 2011 | 05:49 PM
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lame. due to the weather forecast being so unreliable and not having a garage, i will be rocking 2 green wheels and 2 stock wheels for the rest of the week.
Old May 1, 2011 | 05:58 PM
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lol.... take a picture of it... :D
Old May 1, 2011 | 06:13 PM
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pictures are meaningless because driver's side is green and passenger side is stock. i alrdy posted pics of driver's side alrdy and i think there's enough stock cement pics floating around
Old May 6, 2011 | 07:10 AM
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love them...its so nice to see some color once in a while...i have big pink wheels and people look at my car like its a ____ing spaceship or something!!see
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Old May 6, 2011 | 11:46 AM
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^ Great car and picture! You 2 and mospeed really need to get together and do a bright rim photo shoot
Old May 6, 2011 | 01:06 PM
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How tough is this plasi-dip? I want to paint the spokes of my 16" XXRs.
Old May 6, 2011 | 01:10 PM
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^havn't tried going at it or anythign myself but from reading around, it'll endure the typical automatic car washes and pressure washing. I think I read that some have had it on for a year and a half now but some have reported that it does fade over time from being in the sun so a coat of paint or clearcoat might actually help it last longer.
Old May 6, 2011 | 01:35 PM
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Cool. Just any type of paint to coat or do you need need high temp?
Old May 6, 2011 | 01:38 PM
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id say, definitly need to be slammed to really pull off this look
Old May 6, 2011 | 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by C4NN0N1001
Cool. Just any type of paint to coat or do you need need high temp?
I don't think any of us have had it on long enough to know for sure if regular paint works... it's easy to redo and cheap, so I'd say just go with whatever outdoor paint has the color you want
Old May 6, 2011 | 01:52 PM
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Hmmm purple 002s...
Old May 6, 2011 | 05:07 PM
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I've pressure wash my wheels twice already and nothings has happened....
Old May 6, 2011 | 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by MightyP
^ Great car and picture! You 2 and mospeed really need to get together and do a bright rim photo shoot


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Old May 6, 2011 | 06:55 PM
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^ Haha! Didn't mean to leave you out. I didn't know you had had the other tC.
Old May 6, 2011 | 07:02 PM
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interestinggggg
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Sorry if I missed it but is there a DIY for this?
Old May 8, 2011 | 03:28 PM
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not really a DIY but u can check mo's or mightyP's build thread. just 1 can of plasti dip/wheel with 30 mins between coats. 2 hrs later i did 3 coats of paint/wheel (10 mins between coats) and 1 hr later 3 coats of clear/wheel (10 mins between coats).
Old May 8, 2011 | 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by donsun
not really a DIY but u can check mo's or mightyP's build thread. just 1 can of plasti dip/wheel with 30 mins between coats. 2 hrs later i did 3 coats of paint/wheel (10 mins between coats) and 1 hr later 3 coats of clear/wheel (10 mins between coats).
when i was reading up on plasti dip i kept reading ppl who put paint on their plastidip wheels without a good day worth of dry time causes the paint to react with the plasti dip and it changes the material and it no longer becomes peelable.

urs ok with only 2 hour dry time?
Old May 8, 2011 | 09:49 PM
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Stuff is awesome, dries really fast and leaves a very nice finish...but it peels very easily once it gets the smallest nick or blemish .
Old May 8, 2011 | 09:55 PM
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hm maybe it won't peel easily. i don't really care too much since i'm satisfied with the color i ended up with. i guess i'll find out when it does come time for me to take it off. i'm planning on buying wheels anyways so i don't mind too much if it doesn't peel. i'll just get it powdercoated in the future then.



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