I have been reading about everybody using plastic dip on every thing from wheels to grills. So I tried it on the inside of my door jam where everyone likes to put their foot to get in. I cleaned and prepped the areas to what, I thought was to the extreme. I Masked off the area, I wanted to coat and started to spray. Once it was dry I removed the tape and the edges pulled up. So the second time, I did everything the same but removed the tape before it dried, looked great. Fast forward 36 hours the wife and kids wanted to go down and see the river the first kid stepped on the plastic dipped part of the door and the crap peeled. I was thinking of using this stuff for a cheep fix on my wheels until I could buy new ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Plastidip is great but not going to hold up under foot traffic or major scuffing but the stuff is amazing in the fact that you can pull it back up. Any time you use tape with it you do have to pull the tape right after spraying and you can do multi colors if you give the original coat long enough to dry so when you pull the tape from that it doesn't peel along with it. I did my base JK wheels a few weeks back and the look is night and day. So much so that I will be keeping the steelies and just going with new tires since I won't be doing much offroading. For the tight radius's I actually used pin strip tape to edge it than masked the balance with painters tape. Oh and it does get a bit more resistant to damage after has cured for a few days.

 

That sucks. You could bedline it if wanting something permanent.

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Wrong area for that.... People use plastidip so they can peel it off later if they choose..... So it shouldn't have surprised you that it "peeled" off.
What I use in that area is that black non slip tape....

 

So if the stuff peels that easy how do you use it on wheels.

 

With the wheels it doesn't peel off because it's not being stepped on. It can withstand scratches and such from rocks but not a persons weight.

 

Just did My wheels this weekend and they are holding up great. Even took them through an automatic car wash about 72 hours after application and zero signed of peel.

 

It dries like a hard layer of latex. I tried to cover my chrome shift knob. Even though I coated it heavily, it wore through after a few days. Wheels haven't scratched yet. It does suck however, when you rebalance your tires.

 

I don't but mall crawlers aren't scraping their wheels on curbs everyday so it lasts

 

Touch'e. Do wish I had a play ground in my back yard, it give me reason to go for alot of mods!