johnphan79

Hi All,

We owned an 2013 GS350 F Sport Black.
Just thinking if any one know how much will it cost to have all exterior chromes black out?

Also, do you have a place you would recommend?

We live near Keyes in Van Nuys.

Thank you

Wakaflocka

I cant recommend any places. I live like 4k miles from you lol but I can assure you that you should be able to do those things yourself if you take you're time and it will save you money..

NebulaGrey

I have been thinking about this as well...more leaning towards the vinyl wrap instead of the plasti dip....my only gripe about the vinyl is having to use more than 1 piece and potentially noticing the seams.

johnphan79

thanks.. i was thinking vinyl wrap too.

I need to watch more video before i can pull the trigger on it.

Thanks again.

dchar

Wrapping will cost more due to the labor and materials involved. Expect a few hundred dollars.

Plastidip is definitely the cheaper path, but I don't think many shops do this. If done well, it can look really good. Make sure to add glossifier if you don't want the flat/matte black look (which kinda makes it obvious that it's Plastidip).

There's someone I found on this forum back in December that does wraps in Anaheim Hills, Don Nguyen (donathon@gmail.com). His work looks pretty good.

johnphan79

nice! thanks for the info.

djrabbi

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Wrap....Don't dip....

If I show you what the dip did to my CLS55....you will cringe

johnphan79

WtPho! Dang it

Wow... for sure vinyl wrap.

Thanks for sharing.

MEAHT

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wtf is that? what happened man?

djrabbi

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VA sun baked the dip into the paint.....had to pay $500 to take off all that crap on top of what you see in that picture.

I wrapped the car in satin white after, looked sexy

MEAHT

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wow never seen that before... do you have any more images of the damage?

How long did you leave the dip on for?

thanks

MEAHT

djrabbi

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No more images, that was hard enough posting lol!

I had the dip from July 2013 (silver) to May 2014 (black). They claim you can just keep dipping over existing colors, which is what I did but clearly didn't work!