To plasti dip or not

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To plasti dip or not

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I feel like plasti dipping my wheels matte black over winter, what do people think?
Never managed to get them painted gloss black this year thanks to work messing me about.
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My previous car was a white Seat Ibiza. One week after owning it i've dipped the wheels black (just like the Abarth before). After two years i took it of because i sold it. Very cheap way to get your wheels black and easy to remove. CardipUK now has high gloss dip ;)

Going to dip my whole scirocco antracite and the wheels gloss black.
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Cheers for the reply mate, I did see cardipuk stuff on eBay last night when I was looking. How ma y cans did you need to do your wheels? From what I can find on the net its anywhere from 2 to 4. At the rate I'd rather wait til next year & use that money towards a proper refurb, I'm basing that on around £15 per tin of plasti dip
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On the abarth i used 1 can. But it faded after several months. On my Seat i used 2 cans. 1 can a side. It lasted for at least two years.

Or use performix plastidip (the american blue ones). Over here it is €11 a piece so €22 for some nice looking black wheels!
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Re: To plasti dip or not

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Cheers mate, I'll look at that cardip stuff now [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]
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