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Old 04-12-2015, 07:09 AM   #75 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Xist View Post
My black Civic gets so hot I wish it were white!
Dip it!

I covered Slambo's original silver paint with Eastwood's Elastiwrap (their version of Plastidip). You'll need at least a gallon of the stuff, at a minimum, for the thinnest coverage. I'd recommend a 50% more than that, and a topcoat. (Slambo's Blueberry Haze experiment is mostly a gallon of white, with a wee bit of black and blue.)

Elastiwrap is in the $100 per gallon range, but Eastwood runs specials on it from time to time. The sprayer is similar to a Wagner Power Painter.

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