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Plastidip My front chrome trim grills and side chrome trim gills
My buddy of mine help me do it, I think it came out clean compared on how it use to look, here is before and now. Also I posted a pic of how it was done Let me know what you guys think. Thanks
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Nicely done, and never even took the parts off the car. Now that's ingenious.
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Nice - dipping is a great alternative to buying the pre-painted stuff or waiting for the official BMW black parts if you happen to like the satin finish. You can get glossy also by using the glossifier.
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Plasti-Dip is definitely a viable alternate to painting or vinyl wrapping. It's cheaper than both of those too. To this day my door handles still have the original Plasti-Dip I put on them going on 14 months now, with no stripping or peeling.
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Yes definitely, save a few hundreds to a thousands by doing this way. wow that's good to know, Thought you have to redue it every few months. thanks for that info. |
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Maybe I just need to get over myself, but I can't quite get to using plasti-dip on a $120,000 car to save less than $400 (LCI grills from IND less the cost of the plasti-dip). Then you factor in 2 hours of my time and the economics definitely turn sharply negative.
I guess I am not a total snob: I did use Plasti-dip to balck out the bug ugly gols Chevy emblems on the grill and liftgate of my Traverse.
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I was hesitant at first, but the shop that did mine assured me I'd love it and wouldn't be able to tell - and best of all that if I didn't like it, it peels right off. So I let them do it. Guess what? It's as clean a job as you'd want. If you can get the exact same effect for $100 as you'd get for $400+, why wouldn't you? Paint is not rocket science. Except I think plasti-dip may be..
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$400 buys 4 tanks of gas and that accounts for many hours of enjoyable driving behind the wheel. So, yes, I think it's well worth to spend that 2hr. OP did a great job and now I am tempting to do the same.
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haha exactly or a tire one the M5 lol. PM me if you want more details of how its done and all. thanks. |
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I wrapped mine in 3M Metallic black. It matched up so well with the sapphire black metallic that everyone thought it was painted. I did remove it from the car which didn't take very long. I have night vision so I had to unhook that. I spent 40$ to cover the door handles, reflectors, side vents, & front grills. It still looked like new after a year and I use the pressure washer often to clean the car. Not that I can't spend 600$ on painted pieces.
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The front grills were a lil tricky but just have some patience with the blow dryer and it will look perfect. I was thinking if it looked ghetto rigged then I would have it painted but I was very satisfied with the outcome. haha
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I also have a BS M5 and had my front grills, side grills and amber reflectors all removed and sprayed body color for about $170 at my body shop. Came out looking factory. IND charges you upwards fo $800 for the same pieces which is a huge ripoff since they do the exact same thing i did. I was gonna attempt the plasti dip as well, but painting seemed the best option. And the cans sell for about 6 bucks each from Home Depot. $50 for 4 cans seems very very expesnsive.
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