Dip it baby...

Ever since i got the car, it always bugged me that the outer door panels looks a bite worn out, well to me its extremely warned out!

As you can see from the picture below how unhappy i am but what to do...the car has aged and the rubbers with Malaysia heat will not last. After a closer inspection, the rubbers are still doing its job but ecstatically my eyes is tearing blood!

Passenger triangle window

Passenger side

So after many, many and many sleepless nights, i thought i will give it a paint job. Sand it smooth and a nice coat of matte black. Obviously this is a cheaper solution. So first thing was to prep the car. Now with paint masking is very important otherwise all the over spray will be visible. 

Little did i know, masking is not easy! Its freaking hard, especially for a person like me who keeps peeling it off and doing it again, until its perfectly aligned. It took my close to 4 hours to mask just the rear passenger door. 1 door that is. I was tired and my back was killing me, so i called it a day and thought i will just finish it up next weekend. So the car was parked at my usual place protected from the nasty sun and rain, but one of the days, it had rained so bad with strong winds, and my whole car was wet!! Arghh which means all my masking with newspaper and masking tape is ruined!!! Had to feel all of them off, otherwise when wet newspaper dries up, it will be an even bigger mess to clean up the car.

So i thought there got to be a better solution. Recently this new rubberized based paint was getting very popular from US. PLASTI DIP! After watching numerous videos on YouTube, i thought to my self, this is for sure the tool for the job. Rubber for rubber. 

I headed on to ACE Hardware, got a minor heart attack to know that its RM 50 per can! Calmed down and still bought a tin.

So how it works is that this paint, once applied we can easily peel off the over spray so masking is not really required.. and i am a happy guy...below pictures will tell you more..

1st coat if im not mistaken

3rd or 4th coat

Close up look at the wet paint...yes its not a good job

5th and final coat

Final coat

You can see the difference between left and right, where on the right i have peeled off the over spray. It comes off beautifully but it is a bitch to peel

After hours of peeling it off

End results..not bad ehh..

End Results

Overall i think i did not a bad job, but i will need to redo it again sometime. Lesson here is for it to easily peel off you need to ensure the over spay is thick enough, which means i will need at least 2 cans and not 1. Also please mask off the areas where you do not want the paint to reach! I used about 40 minutes to paints the 5 layers, the waiting time in between was about 5 - 10 minutes, but it took me about 2 - 3 hours to peel off the over spray because they were all over and they were so thin that i had to rub it off!

But in a nut shell Plasti Dip is AWESOMEEEEE