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Old 10-15-2014 | 06:54 PM
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Wash + Plasti Dip!!

Had a spare minute today so did a quick wash/wax and then decided to plasti dip the turbo badge!! It was my first time plasti-dipping a badge and it was easier then I imagined !!

Thinking of going for all black look on the car - going to paint the exhaust tips in black hi-temp paint and get black wheels!

Let me know what you think!







 

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Old 10-15-2014 | 06:57 PM
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Looks great. I think it'll look great "all black" with the right set of wheels.
 
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Old 10-15-2014 | 07:37 PM
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Mine is a non-turbo but it used to have the turbo style rim which I plastic-dipped to black, along with the badge and exhaust tips. Lasted very well for almost year before I gave it a complete make over.

My personal taste on black rim is that it gets "hidden" too much especially at night. So I added pinstripe to outline some details. I went with red to go along with the red ascent (my other car is silver and has black rims with silver pinstripe.

Hope this pic helps. The pinstripe is photoshopped, but looks exactly the same in real. I never get to the checker flag stage before doing the make over a couple of months ago


 
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Old 10-15-2014 | 10:06 PM
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Unless you have your heart set on new black rims, I painted my Turbo rims recently, and was thrilled with the result.
 
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Old 10-15-2014 | 10:22 PM
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Unless you have your heart set on new black rims, I painted my Turbo rims recently, and was thrilled with the result.
No harm in trying out a new wheel - although the turbo wheel does look good in black. Depending on what wheel I get - can probably get close to breaking even between buying new wheels / selling the old ones...

My biggest debate is to go gunmetal or black wheels and Im leaning towards black right now!! Had avant garde set on my previous 997 and LOVED them!!

 
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Old 10-15-2014 | 10:32 PM
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Gunmetal would look great too on your car. Best thing about plastic-dip is that it can be undo & redo very easily. And both black and gunmetal are available ;-)
 
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How did you plastidip the badge? A bunch of small pieces of tape around the badge?

I've been tempted to try to plastidip the "S" badge with a red color
 
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That last pic with the reflection of the tree and cactus is pretty cool.
 
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looks good
 
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That last pic with the reflection of the tree and cactus is pretty cool.
I was also just thinking that. Car looks great socialpro
 
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Old 10-16-2014 | 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by epik high
How did you plastidip the badge? A bunch of small pieces of tape around the badge?

I've been tempted to try to plastidip the "S" badge with a red color
It is very straightforward...
 
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