Just painted the front grilles and kidneys..

[411]

Originally Posted by Steve30

i just bought a can of plasti-dip from home hardware. it was the last can though.

Thanx Steve, you're a gentlemen. Who makes the "stuff"??

[411]

Duh...[i'm feeling a little stupid].....I guess a little bit of "googling" is the answer

http://www.plastidip.com/diy_where_to_buy.php

[Ceeker]

Originally Posted by Steve30

i just bought a can of plasti-dip from home hardware. it was the last can though.

Does that mean they no longer carry it and you got the last one or just out ot stock? thanks for letting me know.

[Ceeker]

Originally Posted by 411

Duh...[i'm feeling a little stupid].....I guess a little bit of "googling" is the answer

http://www.plastidip.com/diy_where_to_buy.php

that makes two of us....

[Ceeker]

Originally Posted by jasonbaek

I also painted front&rear bumper trims yesterday. I took both bumpers out but I couldn't get trims out even from the behind..kinda afraid of breaking them. SO I just masked them and they turned out quite nice.

Yeah that should work too, since you have a dark color but with white it makes it very tricky. Since you've removed your bumpers all you have to do is take the rebar off for the long trim. there are tabs visible that you press down on to release the trim from the bumper. if you left the rebar attached to the car you also have access to the back trim piece. trust me I know I've broken my share of trim tabs..lol

[jasonbaek]

Originally Posted by Ceeker

Yeah that should work too, since you have a dark color but with white it makes it very tricky. Since you've removed your bumpers all you have to do is take the rebar off for the long trim. there are tabs visible that you press down on to release the trim from the bumper. if you left the rebar attached to the car you also have access to the back trim piece. trust me I know I've broken my share of trim tabs..lol

Yeah I was trying to remove white rebar but the hex nuts were way too tight to unbolt with regular socket wrench..so I removed one nut and then I was like screw this.. then masked the whole bumper lol.

BTW in order to achieve a perfect masking results when doing masking on a bright coloured bumper is that you need to clean imperfections (after you removed the masking) with #1500 and #2000 grit sandpapers, then polish those spots using #3000 and #6400 polishing compounds.

[Ceeker]

Originally Posted by jasonbaek

Yeah I was trying to remove white rebar but the hex nuts were way too tight to unbolt with regular socket wrench..so I removed one nut and then I was like screw this.. then masked the whole bumper lol.

BTW in order to achieve a perfect masking results when doing masking on a bright coloured bumper is that you need to clean imperfections (after you removed the masking) with #1500 and #2000 grit sandpapers, then polish those spots using #3000 and #6400 polishing compounds.

that is unnecessary; it takes more work to do that then to just take the rivets out of the rebar and remove the bumper shell. :-) once it's off it is easy to push the tabs through to take off the trim.

to do perfect masking you should get beneath the line of where you are painting over. That way when you remove the tape there won't be any overspray.

[daveed]

Nice job dude! I knew it would look awesome! Car looks perfect now IMO, maybe just needs a tiny bit of low

[jasonbaek]

Originally Posted by Ceeker

that is unnecessary; it takes more work to do that then to just take the rivets out of the rebar and remove the bumper shell. :-) once it's off it is easy to push the tabs through to take off the trim.

to do perfect masking you should get beneath the line of where you are painting over. That way when you remove the tape there won't be any overspray.

Yes. I'm particulary bad at anything involving force..just removing the rebar is much easier and simple job..I struggled even when pushing first 2 tabs

I'm so used to building scale models..never worked on my car before..and I have to say I'm going to quit building models. Working on 1:1 scale feels much better.

Originally Posted by daveed

Nice job dude! I knew it would look awesome! Car looks perfect now IMO, maybe just needs a tiny bit of low

I really wanna lower the front just about an inch..but well, before that I wanna get IS lip, independent fogs, heated cloth sport seats, mayyybe a/c from us 318i for next summer, list doesn't seem to end! lol

[Woofer]

^^ lol u have an e30. The list will never end. GL

[Ceeker]

Apparently like most chemical based products being sold; Canadian gov't is banning Plasti-dip from shelves at Lowe's due to chemical composition. It will only be a matter of time before it will not be available here anymore. as you know many chemically based products are being replaced by water born.

[The Twin]

bah, nothing a quick trip to Lowes across the border won't fix ;-)

[Ceeker]

there are other places too, but I didn't check.. napa, carquest..

[xpress325]

plasti-dip can also be purchased at performace improvement on queensway.

[Ceeker]

Originally Posted by xpress325

plasti-dip can also be purchased at performace improvement on queensway.

yeah, big brand co. have to take it off the shelves but smaller ones seem to still have it. So I was told by one employee at Lowes.