Dipped, to protect the new paint job mostly

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11-08-16, 02:19 PM

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sha4000

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Nice paint but I don't like the dip. How long do you plan to keep the dip on there?

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11-08-16, 05:09 PM

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If the base coat is water base, the clear will come off with the plasti dip. Unless you did a good coat of wax before the dip. But then wax won't let the new paint breath and cure either. So how long did it cure?

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11-08-16, 07:36 PM

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Paint cured for a month.
I will keep the dip on until it wears away enough to be ugly...Then it's peeling time!
The paint job is guaranteed for as long as I own the car so if there are issues with clear I will take it back there (they don't know about the dip

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11-09-16, 10:17 AM

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Good question. The paint job was an insurance claim after the car was vandalized. The dip is to protect it. Why? Someone already rubbed against the car within a few weeks of the paintjob...I had to pay another $500 to fix that (out of pocket)...this way at least the paint job is protected under the dip (to a degree admittedly).

That makes sense. Here in CA, we have the option on an insurance claim like that to just take the $$ and do whatever we want. So if they were to say it needs a $3k paint job, where will you be taking it to get it painted? We'd just say, give me the $3k check and we're done with it. Then go get the $50 in plastidip from Home Depot ...