Next evolution in removable car coatings

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of connecting plastidip and cars so I'm pretty excited about this new product that's hitting the market soon. It's a sprayable, removable coating designed specifically for cars. It's sand-able, buff-able, wax-able, fuel resistant, and still peel-able. It is designed to have a deeper gloss than OEM paint.

Here are some examples of the new product:

To get this type of result, it needs to be applied in a clean environment with professional equipment, so it's not as much of a DIY product unfortunately. Still, I'm excited to see the possibilities. It's a bit of marketing hype but it's true that with plasti-dip, it can look good in pictures but usually not so much close-up. They claim that this product looks better in person than it does in the pictures. I guess we'll see soon enough.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated in any way with the products or vendors.

Interesting. I'm curious as to the cost with it requiring professional application. But damn it looks good. I'm thinking vinyl wrap alternative.

I bet it will be at the cost of a normal respray which gets us to the point, why pay just as much for a "paint job" that someone can walk by and peel if they were mad at you, or scratches? I'd imagine that's hard to repair. I mean it's cool and all but I think there's a reason all the photo cars are nice expensive cars, Porsche Audi, where that was the MAIN APPEAL towards plastidip, aside for removability, than anyone with $5-$50 can walk into Home Depot, but the paint they need and spray it themselves. This looks more like the elite ie rich kid version of plasti dip.

Looks like it's closer to a new type of clear coat than a new peelable coating, it needs to be applied to wet paint:

http://www.autoflexcoatings.com/highgloss/

GameboyRMH wrote: Looks like it's closer to a new type of clear coat than a new peelable coating, it needs to be applied to wet paint: http://www.autoflexcoatings.com/highgloss/

So, that stuff in the link is just clear coat?

Brian wrote: I'm curious as to the cost with it requiring professional application.

Potential deal breaker there.

Just saw a vid on YouTubes where you mix heat sensitive pigment in a clear topcoat. Kid did red over black. The red turned out burgundy, but the pigment did in fact react well to heat, about 90 degrees.

Ive read that the electronics industry is just a mouse fart away from printing LED TV Screens in wallpaper (they can already make LED screen curtains). Combine that with Vinyl wrap...Edit your livery between runs. Dont like a bright yellow truck, change it to cammo...Paint is the rotary telephone of the automotive world

tuna55 wrote:

GameboyRMH wrote: Looks like it's closer to a new type of clear coat than a new peelable coating, it needs to be applied to wet paint: http://www.autoflexcoatings.com/highgloss/

So, that stuff in the link is just clear coat?

It's a flexible clear coat, yes, and unless the original post is about some product that's not yet on their website, I think it's the same thing being discussed.

On that note, what happens if you spray regular automotive paint over plasti-dip? Do you not get a hard glossy surface that is washable and waxable, that you can peal off if you decide to change it later or does the regular paint not stick to or does it desolve the plasti-dip to a runny mess?

If the Plasti-Dip reacts to the solvents in paint like it does to gasoline, it will turn it into mush, in my experience of using it on a motorcycle tank.

All of this Plastidip and wrap stuff is getting to the point where it costs almost as much as a real paint job.

I've talked to some guys that were doing "professional Plastidipping" and charged about $1,200 to $1,500 for a full car dip. It's better then $3,000 to $4,000 plus for a full respray, but it's also over a 1/3 of the cost of real paint potentially.

If you want some kind of crazy color for your brand new car and you want to protect the paint, maybe it makes sense. Otherwise I don't think it's worth it. All of these pearl coats, gloss or satin clear, etc. also make it more likely that the average schmuck in their driveway screws it up and has to start all over again with $200-$300 of materials or more.

They're charging that much? My buddy bought their whole DIY kit for $300, plus he has the hvlp gun for other sprays.

http://forum.dipyourcar.com/forum.php

Appleseed wrote: They're charging that much? My buddy bought their whole DIY kit for $300, plus he has the hvlp gun for other sprays.

Yeah, it's a "you get what you pay for" proposition really. The car they had at the show was a brand new VW Beattle with a flat light blue and pearl dip on it that looked like a legitimate paint job the quality was so good. I mean it's not rocket science to do this process, but at the same time someone with a solid understanding of how to paint a car, how to do the prep work, how to remove the masking, etc. is going to have better results then joe schmoe at home trying it for the first time.