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Old 12-16-16 | 11:21 PM
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Cant make my mined up to black out the Lexus and the IS badges (on the boot) or not, the car is graphite colour any comments and pics, yes I know its a personal thing but sometimes you need a second opinion and my wife does not count this time, and she doesn't read the forum I hope
Old 12-17-16 | 05:56 AM
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I say just give it a try anyways since it's so easy to do. And if you hate it, peel it off and you're back to where you started.
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Look in my photo gallery under my profile. I posted all my plasti dipped photos for when I did this to my smoky granite mica F. I actually went all ham on the entire car...lol. I was bored and wanted to fool around. But like mentioned above...it's so easy to try out and it literally peels right off if you don't like it.
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I dipped the rear emblems and they came out great. You can easily remove it whenever you want.
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Thanks Soulfreak but has anyone got any more pics before and after.
Old 12-18-16 | 11:16 AM
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Paint them it looks a lot better!
Old 12-18-16 | 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by isfvss
Thanks Soulfreak but has anyone got any more pics before and after.
Here's one from a couple years ago. Don't have any closeups unfortunately but black is black. And like others have said, peels off super easy if you're not impressed.
Old 12-18-16 | 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Joker4096
I dipped the rear emblems and they came out great. You can easily remove it whenever you want.
Agreed. Follow up with some Poor Boys Natural Look on the dip every two weeks for the perfect plasti-shine. No joke!


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Thanks ^^^^ but any graphite cars with this done or black cheers.
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You're not easy to please.. Jk. Someone help our guy out.
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Old 12-19-16 | 12:16 AM
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Yep I'm going to give it a go I have done plasti paint before and if I don't like it..... comes off cheers, have a great Christmas to all CL members.
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My ISF is black and i plasti dipped my window trim (didnt like the chrome look that every car has), and also the chrome around the front grill. Looks heaps better my opinion. Also did the side indicators but its still easily visible when in use. On a black car its much better. For now i left the badges alone though, didnt want to get too carried away :-)
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I bought black chrome emblems, no regrets.
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Originally Posted by ISF5L
My ISF is black and i plasti dipped my window trim (didnt like the chrome look that every car has), and also the chrome around the front grill. Looks heaps better my opinion. Also did the side indicators but its still easily visible when in use. On a black car its much better. For now i left the badges alone though, didnt want to get too carried away :-)
same but I didn't do the indicators



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