Plastidip Project Done! Almost murdered. Lights, Trim and Wheels

[rock3ralex]

Finally got around to finishing the plastidip project. Took the lights off the roof. Swapped grills, dipped the trim, did the headlights and wheels.

A tip for the lights is 18 min in the oven at 250F. Then use a utility knife to cut the seal. Makes getting into them so much easier. Then reseal with outdoor silicon. Be generous and you'll have nice blacked headlight.

Took about 6 cans total for everything. Not a bad $40 investment.




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[GAINMOB]

ive heard as high as 350-400 degrees for 5-10 mins to open the lights...suppose to pull right apart

 

[FordandPolaris]

Any reason you skipped the wheel weights?

 

[bcmaxx]

LOOKS GOOD, BUT......Who Balanced your wheels? why are the weights opposing each other like that? We have been doing tires 12+ years and I've never seen that, thats all

 

[MoHawk]

Yeah, those wheel weights are goofy. Other than that, it looks great

 

[FordandPolaris]

LOOKS GOOD, BUT......Who Balanced your wheels? why are the weights opposing each other like that? We have been doing tires 12+ years and I've never seen that, thats all

My tires have the same thing. I tried balancing them several times in high school, and they would not work any other way. I blamed the bigger tires.

 

[tallsville]

looks good. let me know when you are back up here and we can go get the expy dirty

 

[sgtowing]

Looks great

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[rock3ralex]

ive heard as high as 350-400 degrees for 5-10 mins to open the lights...suppose to pull right apart

I thought about going higher in temp, but I worried about smoking some of the coatings on the wires. Besides, 250 gets that headlight pretty hot to to touch. I wonder if 350 would have been easier.

Any reason you skipped the wheel weights?

I had smaller tires on their before and had dipped the wheels with the weights on it. Then after I got the larger tires, they put newer weights on that weren't the old dipped ones.

I'm planning on just touching them up in a few days.

LOOKS GOOD, BUT......Who Balanced your wheels? why are the weights opposing each other like that? We have been doing tires 12+ years and I've never seen that, thats all

I believe that just has to do with the larger tires. Not all of the silver marks you see are weights. Some of the silver marks are un-dipped parts of the wheel from where weights used to be.

looks good. let me know when you are back up here and we can go get the expy dirty

Definitely amigo! I'll be back up in about a month. Maybe a little less depending on the weekends.

 

[KWT2000]

as for balancing i started using air bb's works great and they are always balanced

just thought i would throw it out their