Plasti Dip is the fastest and least expensive way to dramatically change a car’s exterior appearance. In just a few hours, you can paint your car with removable coating—in any color you can possibly imagine, from classic flat black through Superglow Moondust Pearl.
The product is non-destructive. It leaves your vehicle’s original paint untouched and can be quickly peeled off (when properly applied). There’s no intensive prep work or days of sanding. It’s the perfect way to hide an imperfect paint job or mismatched body panels.
White is often used as a base coat to provide more pop for bright colors.
Plastidip is a great way to hide color mismatched body panels. A matte top coat makes dings less apparent.
The Dip Craze
Once upon a time, Plasti Dip was relegated to the hardware store shelves, a novel product intended to cover and cushion metal tools with a rubbery grip surface. As the name implies, you dip a bare tool handle into the liquid plastic over-and-over and eventually end up with a nice bright rubbery handle.
Plasti Dip International, based in Blane, Minn., started selling liquid rubberized coating in the 1970s and introduced aerosol cans in the 1980s. Sprayable Plasti Dip opened up a new world of objects that could be coated, but it took years for the automotive hobby to take notice. The product eventually became a popular option to cover chrome emblems, bezels, and grilles. And then one day, a brave soul decided to spray an entire car with the stuff. Videos began appearing on YouTube and the car-dipping phenomena rolled across the nation.
You’ll need to buy it by the gallon if you plan on painting an entire car. When searching through eBay Motors for Plasti Dip, you’ll find all the options for colors, metallics, and pearls. You can also find a sprayers specifically designed for rubberized coatings.
Dip jobs hit the stratosphere with a range of Pearlizer, Metalizer, Color Shift Chameleon, and Fluorescent Blaze top coats.
Five Reasons to Plasti Dip a Car or Truck
Try on a Different Color, Before Committing: A conventional paint job can take weeks and cost thousands upon thousands of dollars. You want to be absolutely sure that the color you picked from a paint chip will look good on your car.
You Want to Hide Bad Paint, Without Painting: If you car has a bad paint job or mismatched body panels, Plasti Dip can hide the truth from the world until you have the opportunity to repaint (or not).
You Want to Protect the Original Paint: Covering a mint paint job with rubberized coating can keep the stone chips at bay. This can be quite useful on occasions when you take a 4×4 off-roading or a sports car out for a track day.
You Want to Try Something Really Crazy: Do you have an out-of-this-world color scheme or design you’d like to try, but don’t want to spend the time or money to make it happen with conventional paint? Wild stripes? Ghosted fishnets? Halloween Orange?
You Want to Spiff Up a Car to Sell It: I remember when my parents took an old car for a $29.95 one-day paint job before they traded the car for a new sedan. Plasti Dip is the least expensive way to paint your car before you put it on the market.
Trying on different colors is like trying on different clothes before you buy them. The best part of the process is that it’s fast and relatively inexpensive. If you decide you really don’t like a color on the car, just peel the dip off and spray it with a completely different color.
