been playing with plasti-dip and blacked out a bunch of stuff. then i spent yesterday putting on some stripes...still have the door handles and belt line left but the handles look like they'll be hard to do. here are some pics

 

Damn that looks cool

 

Looks real good, I've been thinking about doing the same on my Chili red MCS.

did you use the spray can type or theo other?
Did you remove the parts for painting?
Also what kind of prep?

 

Nice!

 

Nice work!
Check your headlight washer cover, it looks off a bit

 

Job well done !!!

 

Your Mini Looks Great......


Happy Holidays,

Larry

 

yea it was crooked when i took the pic

i used plasti-dip for everything including the wheels and headlights. no prep, just clean everything off using diluted simple-green. went on easy, and removable if i want to at a later date.

i baked the headlights to take them apart, even with the venture-shield invisible film on them, they had no problems with 220 degrees in the oven.

 

Very nice, looks mean, I like it.

 

Very nice. Let us know how it holds up on the wheels.

 

did you plastidip your joeymod? hows that holding up... any peeling?

 

Your Cosmetic (Plastic) Surgery went very well. The car looks great.

Taking off the door handles is gonna require some patience, but not too difficult.

 

I'd love to hear more details on the plasti-dip stipes (or are they vynil?). You masked it off and sprayed them on? They are removable? The stripes seem to be more glossy then the other parts.

 

I have not looked yet, but does anyone know of a good how to on the headlights I would love to do this on one of our MINIS.

 

I cannot seem to find the DIY for the joey mod. How do you guys take the headlight apart? And why the baking? I've taken the headlights(the bulb itself) out to tap into the brights wire but I could not take the bulb at all. DIY please.

 

maximus96,

I'd love to know more details regarding the wheels process. I am aware of Plasti-dip but know nothing about how it is used? spray? dip? brush? did you remove the tires first? How durable is it? Could you post a closer pic of the wheels?

Sorry for the barage of questions but my next big purchase was going to be black wheels but if I can get a decent look with plasti-dip.....

 

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good luck with the joey... just a small piece of advice...

i used krylon fusion with a primer and its started to blister/chip. if maximus used plastidip for his joey and its holding up, i am going to go back and redo mine with plastidip. maximus... care to comment?

 

I used a matte spray paint for my joey mod, it wasn't a special kind or anything and no problems. I did it about 4 months ago.

Plasti-dip is pretty durable. I did my entire roof with it

 

Any chance of some pics of the wheels? Amazing idea if it pans out.

 

Your MINI's new name should be Yellow-Jacket, that is a really nice color combo you have going there.

 

Thanks for the kind words. The stripes are vinyl, forgot to mention that. Also I used VHT nite shades for the front signals and side repeaters with plasti-dip on the other black parts.

The wheels were done about a month ago and they're holding up just fine. I can't post any pics yet because internet is down at home.

The plasti-dip joey mod was done this past monday so no long term conclusions yet. I read some first-gen folks using plasti-dip for their joey so I think it should be ok. Taking the headlights apart were easy since I've done the same to my other cars before. I didn't do the projector shrouds because my wife was coming home and I didn't have enough time to try to figure out how to take it apart. I think it looks fine for now.

 

how about a brief description of the wheel process.

 

The Plasti-dip is good to 200*F. Someone with an infrared temp gun should see how hot the xenon headlamps get. I suspect that it won't be as hot as 200*

What's up with that yellow paint. That doesn't look anything like mellow yellow (which looks washed out). That actually looks like a really nice yellow. Although I've read that yellow is a hard color for digicams to render correctly.

More wheel pics please. Also, can you give a step by step? Did you do the back side of the rims?

 

Oh Geez .. just figured out my first mods. Thanks for the inspiration. It looks amazing. The black is setting off the yellow very nicely.