Plasti-Dipped Rockers?

[Southern Pride]

So I've been wanting to remove my moldings for a loooong time now so I can just have a nice smooth body. I've wanted to so bad I'm willing to re paint the rockers with the rattle can. The rattle can job I did a few years ago has some chips in it now and needs re-painting anyway. The paint underneath my moldings is no good though...It has chips in it and all that. My question is, If I removed the moldings and glue, do I still have to fully prep the rockers and paint chips like as If I was about to paint them for real or is plasti-dip any better, or will it hide some of that? I'm highly considering spraying my rockers with it from the lowest body curve down because I was wanting to rattle can them flat black anyway, but this way it wouldn't be near as much of a PITA and I could peel it off whenever I was ready to paint it for real. Tell me what you think of all this and what would I need to do prep-wise for plasti dipping my rocker panels?

 

[sewlow]

The stuff is fairly thick. Much more than reg. paint. It sould hide all the nicks & flaws. If they're really bad, give all of the problem areas a bit of a first coat, then do it all.

 

[Southern Pride]

Okay wow so I can just remove all the major big adhesive tape, and any other big nicks I can just give a good spray first then do my base coat and probably do 4 coats total??? I'm getting amped up for this. Hell, I may even have it done by tonight....

 

[jdyates]

That plasti dip is like a skin-tight car cover. Oh and keep in mind that its flat black.

 

[Southern Pride]

Heading to the hardware store to get 3 cans...I hope will do it all.

Yeah I'm aware it's flat black which I prefer it's either spray paint them flat black, pay alot of money to have them professionaly painted and blended, or go the plasti dip route so I can take it off when it is time to have the whole truck done! I'm thinking plasti dip!

 

[jdyates]

Sounds good! Thats why i rubber undercoated my wheels rather than paint them, that way i had a "trial period" to see if i liked painted stockers, and once the undercoating starts to look crappy, rattle can them gloss black.

 

[gmcyukondriver]

You might want to look on youtube or check the steps on the can for painting. I've heard that you get better results doing a VERY heavy coat, rather than multiple coats.

 

[Southern Pride]

Well the drivers side is done. Went all the way up to the damn hardware store even tho I called and said hold me 2 cans and there was 1 can there. Anyway, driver side is done but now I gotta go find some more of this stuff. It got dark on me once it dried so I haven't really been able to see how the hell it looks? I plugged in a huge spotlight and the **** looks grey? Wtf? I'm thinking maybe the spot light was hopefully just real powerful or something and in regular light it will match better or something but anyway I dunno whether to drive it somewhere to look or what. I don't want it to not be fully dry and me drive it and mess it all up but I painted a emblem and it was already dry so I dunno.

Every video i've seen of this stuff it looks black as can be so this grey look is throwing me off. I got the drivers side done so I'll prolly tackle the other side tmrw.

 

[Southern Pride]

I just called Home Depot and they have some more of the **** so out to Home Depot I go!

 

[JJZ71]

How much is this stuff running per can? What is it actually used for? If it's at Home Depot, it's obviously not for automobile's.