Vinyl is definitely a better/safer bet when doing the window trim. You mentioned the Queens area, I have a guy in Great Neck. Called the Tint Shop. It's this Italian guy name Joe. He does some of the best tinting/vinyl/and custom decals/body art for cars that I have ever seen only involving Tints, Carbon Fiber Films, Vinyl, and much more.

I would recommend going to him for not only a great price, but also for the work that he loves to do. Tell him Chris the Italian guy (Silver Maxima) sent you. If you wanna see his work, just twitter; Paint Protect (The Tint Shop) or meet up and check my whip.

 

Thanks maximaguido, I'll def let you know when I'm going to do it. After talking about it I went to look at the trim and I noticed that the back driver door the trim was a little off, right around the curve of the door on top. I'm going to take it to the dealer as soon as I can and I don't want them saying anything. I will let you know.

 

Sounds good man, goodluck, My dealership messed my radio up, and now they need to fix more then 1 issue..Barron Nissan..Sigh.

 

its all about prep work
I had my grill on my benzo plasti dipped...held up for over 3 years...vs the regular paint on chrome less than one winter

 

I am thinking the same...except in white plasti dip...thoughts?

 

Tried a little something new.

 

just havin a lil fun with some plasti dip

 

Finally gpt around to plasti-dipping my wheels:
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Did you take the grill of before plastidipping? (is that a word lol)

 

I Finally got around to Plasti-dipping my front grille today. Man getting those last two clips off was pretty damn hard. You guys must have some small hands and forearms because I was ready to give up after ten minutes spent just trying to pop those last two clips. Thankfully I finally got it out. I just pray this stays chip free for a few years because i do not look forward to doing this again anytime soon.

 

Why didn't you mask off the area around the grill? Sounds like you made it into an all day project.

I used newspapers and blue painters tape and then some old sheets on the car and was done in an hour.

 

I thought about that but yesterday was pretty windy and I also didnt want to get it all over my radiator and the inside of the bumper.

All in all I am happy though. It looks ten times better.

 

i took my grill off looks way better when you take it off it wasnt that hard and i deff dont have small hands

 

Does anyone know how to remove the grille emblem without taking the entire grille off (7th gen)?

based on what I've read here, my hands are wayyy to large to reach those bottom clips.

 

Ok, so white on black SV grill now done up in Plasti-dip. Was a fun job. My hands were cut up trying to reach the lower clips, so I gave up and just unclipped the top so it hung forward a bit. This made the taping job much easier on 3/4th of the grille.

Lower intake was a bit more tricky pulling off the tape. Had to re-tape some spots and blast a thick patch coat, then pull away the tape while still wet.

Nicest $6 modification I thought possible. Half a can of the spray, half a roll of blue tape, but I splurged on the trigger handle for the spray can (another $5 )

 

Just ordered the Black Gloss Plastidip from the site..A bit expensive after shipping and tax, but I am going to do my whole lower bumper and trim it up. Then do the 2 mirrors maybe. If I like the Gloss look, I am going to redo my rims as well. Maybe my badges too. We shall see.

My question is, do I need the regular plasti dip then glossify it? It says on the site that I don't. If i do, then Its all good, Home Depot sells it!

 

As of last week, their site suggested using the black matte (same from Home Depot), and then the new glossy layer goes over that.

 

i just used vinyl on mine bottom bumper

 

Thanks bro, I'll grab the matte from Home Dept!

and Nemo, can you send me a picture. I looked into that as well, but wasn't sure bc I like the glossy look.

I only bought 1 thing of gloss, 16 bucks..fml, but hopefully its enough!

I might do the Mirrors as well. I want the stillen front lip too. I have been modding my car out every week. I buy or do something new every week!

 

How about dipping the wheels, but leaving a rim on the stock wheels in the original silver? Anyone have thoughts. I looked at the stock 18" rims, but the taping would be a bear.

 

Pics?

 

check out my car. I did the rims, spolier, emblems, tags, and side skirts all in plasti

 

Wow plasti dip is really low priced in the states!! It's like $24 per can up here in canada..

 

Instead of sanding and repainting oem mud guards, what are the thoughts on just plasti-dipping 'em?

 

after seeing a plastidipped s4 on utube this got me thinking about trim

 

well looks like i am going to try the SMOKE color that way it is just a little different dont think i can go all the way black on trim and emblems

 

Heres pictures of my rims that i recently dipped out.


The calipers i used caliper paint but the little Nissan badge in the middle is painted with red plasti dip. trim painting is coming up

 

^ nice...did you take the wheels off?

 

No i didnt actually. I just taped off the brakes and took the center caps off to take the center logo off.

 

^ ah so the question i have is what ahppens to the lugs when you need the wheelfs off? re-dip?

 

Best stuff to use is this

http://autovinylsolutions.com/knifeless?gclid=CI6xu-yu-rECFUXc4AodrC4AFQ

 

Well I didn't paint then heavily. They come off easily if required. It messes up the paint inside the lug nut hole but that's not an issue its a quick fix.

 

^ gotcha

 

I recently tried painting the rear badge with red plasti dip and it came out pretty nice. Ill post pics once im done painting all the chrome trim in red

 

wow that will be interesing

 

Heres the badge that i painted with red plasti dip ill be painting the rest of the chrome pieces in red as well just dont have time right now
P.S: sorry for the fked up exhausts i had an accident and i keep forgetting to go back for them to straighten them out

 

i'm thinking about plasti dipping my wheels with the gold metalizer and then following it up with the glossifier. have any of you guys used these before?

 

Heres my recent project. Next up is the side chrome trim and then the door handles. Those are a pain in the *** to paint though have to take them off the car lol. Also the home depots next to my house keep running out of plasti dip the day they get a new shipment lol.

 

Wow Looking good. Something different. Did you try the glossifier yet? BTW I think I saw this Max when I was in NYC last week but I can't remember where... Maybe it was an imitation

 

Thanks and where did you see it? and no im yet to use glossyfier i need to order me some of that lol.