I have a Suzuka blue, and like the way they look with gold wheels. I don't think I would want them permanently gold however, because I could grow tired of it pretty quickly.

So I was thinking I could lay down a few coats of plasti-dip, and then put a bunch of coats of gold spray paint on top of that. Do y'all think that would flake off within a day or potentially damage something? Would it be easy to remove like plasti dip is known for?

 

hmmmm...

 

If you are going to do it you should use duplicolor bronze wheel paint.
But as far as painting on plastidip I can't comment. I have heard several people on several forums ask the same question but I have never heard of anyone actually doing it.

 

I've used Plasti-dip as a sealer on foam and rubber, and painted over that - Worked excellent, no flaking whatsoever. I did use an adhesion promoter over the Plasti-dip as a "primer." I can't say how well it would work on alloys though, and under different temperature and elemental conditions. Plasti-dip can accept paint though with good results under certain conditions. Maybe experiment on some scrap metal or something?

 

Thanks so much for the replies.

I actually came to the same idea that spindash did. I guess I should just go for it also. Wheels have much higher temperatures to endure than other parts of the car. I get my new wheels on friday, so I'll post pictures when I get around to doing it.

 

Awesome

This is the stuff I used:

Adhesion Promoter

Looking forward to the pics!

 

why not use gold plasti dip?

 

I tried doing this on an aluminum baseball bat as a test. I also put clearcoat over the paint. I imagine it was the clearcoat, but it is very difficult to remove and only comes off in small chips (like paint). I don't think I could remove it without scratching the metal on the baseball bat. I don't know how it would behave without the clear. Plastidip itself is very easy to remove, so I would go with Topplayer's suggestion of using custom gold plastidip.

 

^^ This is a good point. In my experience, if you do go the paint route, it has to be a plastic specific paint that will flex with the plasti-dip. Normal paint or clear coat will harden the whole base. If gold plasti-dip is available, that would be ideal, if not, I would definitely try the combo on a piece of metal that does not matter, just for removal purposes. Lots of coats of dip, adhesive promoter, then plastic paint.

 

Another thi to remeber is the wheels can get pretty hot from the brakes and everything. I have no idea how paint would hold up on plastidip. I would see if you can order some gold plastidip and just do that.