I finally finished blacking out my MINI. After reading about the plastidip I decided to go that route because it was so inexpensive and I could go back to stock if I ever wanted to. It looked good for a couple of weeks, but after a few rock chips and washes it started to look pretty cheap. I was only missing the door handles and from what I have read here on NAM they are a pain in the butt to get off the car. After meeting Mike from www.aestheticreations.net he told me about a new molded product that he was coming out with and asked if I would be interested. I jumped at the offer. Originally I was just going to do the door handles and leave the plastidip on the rest of the pieces. After the door handles were installed I was so impressed that I peeled off the plastidip crap and had him do the rest of the car. Its like a drug, here is a little taste; I couldn’t leave his driveway without having the rest of the MINI done. It looks so good now. Here are a few pic that I took today after I washed the MINI and took off the cheap stripes that I had( NOT from aestheticreations). The pics are not the best it was getting dark.

Gas Cap

Tail Light Rings

Wing Badge


Headlight rings with washer covers:

 

Looks pretty nice

 

here are a few more pic of the full sides

 

 

Nice job!

 

Chris, looks good! What are your wheels?

 

any off the car pics? is the chrome visible at any angle? and...... clip on? or double sided tape?

 

Stock painted with Duplicolor wheel coating

 

Chrome completely covered. It is a tight fit and probably doesnt need it but there is double sided tape on it also. I have some pics from when we did the install. They are on another camera. I will try to post them tomorrow.

 

Great LQQK

 

That's the flat black right?

(Any other pics of your wheels?)

 

That looks awesome! Are those S-lites??? They look effin' sweet in black!

 

How much $ ???

Is this product available across the country?

Looks great.

 

Is that a Melting Scoop I see? How old is your MINI?

 

Did you use the black satin duplicolor wheel coating? How long have you had it and how has it held up?

 

Niiiiiice.

 

http://www.aestheticreations.net/moldedparts.htm

Link my thread on this:

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...black-out.html

I saw his painted wheels and they look great. It inspired me to paint mine.

 

Yes flat black. No other pics yet.

 

I have had them painted for about a month now and they still look great. Just a few marks on them from hitting cones in autox. I think I would have missed the cones if I hadnt painted the wheels.

 

Ive had the MINI since 7/12. Noticed the hood scoop was melting about 2 months later. Im going to have MINI replace the next time I am in for service.

 

nicely done !
plasti dip has been working great for me :] how many coats did you put on?


im just going to get the emblems done , do they need to be removed when applying?

 

Not bad...

 

Give me your black mini emblem...I'm jealous.

 

so how do they apply the stuff to the emblems?