matthewj182

I did this mod for the license plate mount.
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/how-...-mount-248425/

Nick Woodard

Dipyourcar.com is having black friday deals starting midnight of friday morning!

serega12

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I haven't dipped anything in months...

Getaway_Driver

Bumping this old thread to show my first attempt at plasti dipping my lip. I'm going to redo it in a few short weeks when I have some more free time. I want to plastidip the rims, too.





I did it earlier today (Superbowl Sunday, whoop whoop!) and let it dry. It could've been better, but for my first attempt? I think I did all right.

Snail_SS

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Looks pretty good to me

Getaway_Driver

Thanks, man. In person, it doesn't look as good as it does in the pics. There are a few spots with bad texture.

I'm going to do the rear lip and rims, too. New headlights + LED tails should have this car looking up-to-date again.

SR Tech

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Dip looks good. But your headlights look really foggy and your lower grill looks crooked in there?

Snail_SS

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Yeah plasti dip can be your friend or your enemy i wanna re plasti dip my wheel but i would rather spend the money on powdercoating them now

Getaway_Driver

Crooked grill? Idk about that. But headlights look like **** for sure.

I contemplated doing a retro fit myself, but after reading several How To's and watching some vids, I've realized it's not something I'm comfortable with trying.
Contacted someone on here who retrofits the lights, but he gave me a price quote I can't afford right now.
So I'm thinking about going with some aftermarket headlights. Maybe the Anzo black ones off of Amazon. I'll put in white light bulbs so I don't have to find a way to rig up the HIDs and possibly ruin something. lol

Snail_SS

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Just save for the retros ill be worth to dont just buy them because they are cheaper remember you get for what you pay for

riceburner

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Throw me a pm if you want some made brah

Getaway_Driver

Oh, ****. After further inspection, my lower grill IS crooked. Ugh. I can't believe it took someone mentioning it online for me to notice. All these years.

Also, @ riceburner, PM'd.

@Eddieavila10, you may be right, but I'm someone who just doesn't have the finances for it in most cases. I'll have to see, though.

Getaway_Driver

How it's looking now with the rims dipped:

Tsbbzm

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Looks good.

Snail_SS

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Yup looks pretty good

Getaway_Driver

Thanks, guys. I dipped the rear bumper lip, too, but I don't like how it turned out. I'm going to redo that in a couple weeks. I can't find pics of people's rear bottom lip being dipped, but I remember seeing some a few years ago when this forum was more active..

Twoozofjuice

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Did these yesterday

Dipped_Cobalt

^^ for what car are they?

what color combo did you use to get that?

Snail_SS

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Thats a pretty cool color

Twoozofjuice

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They're for my car.
It's sunset bronze from 50/50 pearls mixed into topcoat and sprayed over black base coat

Dipped_Cobalt

I figured after I saw picture of car and saw rims, lol.

you did a great job with that clear coat

preval or gun?

Twoozofjuice

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Gun. Was just for testing the topcoat dripped on me a little but oh well it came out alright. I'd imagine they'd look alot better if I sprayed gloss over it

Dipped_Cobalt

gloss would tame the topcoat tho...

Twoozofjuice

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Gloss as in topcoat. It would make it alot glossier. Glossifier is crappy. You have to spray it perfect for ok results

Dipped_Cobalt

ohh ok, I thought you wanted to spray glossifier over topcoat, my bad.

ive yet to try the top coat, its too expensive to test lol