Vinyl dye in a can.... it works!

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Vinyl dye in a can.... it works!

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I was sick of looking at yellow'd rear door cards, so I finally found some spray-on vinyl dye. Behold the results:

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They're white again, yay!! :D
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So that's what color my interior is supposed to be. Nice!
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Kamz,

Name of wonder product and where you found it please.
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There's several manufacturers of vinyl dye, but I chose one by PlastiKote (they also make touch-up paint) and found it at <gulp> Pep Boys.
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Wow!! That looks great!! Any word on how it does over time? Cracking or peeling or good results??

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According to the can, doesn't crack, fade, peel, etc. We'll see in a few years! or months, considering it gets pretty hot in my garage in the summer...
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According to the can, doesn't crack, fade, peel, etc. We'll see in a few years! or months, considering it gets pretty hot in my garage in the summer...
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Aaawww man... I need to re-read what I type about 5 times and turn on my "man brain" before hitting "submit" these days, don't I? :? :lol: :P
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That is okay, occasionally I like most men wobble between the curb and the gutter. One of these days I must learn to control the Dark side. As I don't have any equilibrium I tend to wobble the fine line of gutter/curb. Since my unfortunate mental demise, I have been told since I am now in my right hemisphere most of the time, The artistic, and caring nuturing hemisphere of the brain and that I am more intune to my Feminine side. So in retro-spect most women must be in thier right minds. The left side is for the gutter, where most all of us men live.........lol

So see since your mind isn't in the gutter, you didn't see the connection.

And I being above it won't comment either way.

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Holy crap!!! That result is amazing, Kammy :thumbup:
That stuff works great, doesn't it? 8)

Stuff in a can works great- cheese, vinyl dye, RAID...LOL! :lol:

I've had the black variety painted on my sun-visors of my Cab for a year
and 3 months now- it never lost it's luster or started flaking or cracking
at all :D
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WOW! they turned out great i should pick some of that stuff up my panels are yellow now. My bro did the same thing to his 323 but he changed his panels from grey to black, I have no idea how it held up over time cuz it was totalled back in november. I think he used the same stuff
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J-Dub wrote:Karmann - Don't have to take her to dinner to get her topless
Sorry this is off topic, but that's the most clever/sexually confusing thing I've ever read about a Cabriolet, LOL!!!!! :lol: :lol:
Everyone who doesn't know VWs (like my mom) would find that to be the most dirty phrase known to man (or think this "Karmann" is the sluttiest thing on earth, LOL)! That's the funniest thing I've read all day :beer:
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LOL! I'm glad you like it :)
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I really like the before pic. It matchs my teeth....lolol


I will probably spray my boot cover if I can't get it cleaner than it is....
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Briano1234 wrote:
According to the can, doesn't crack, fade, peel, etc. We'll see in a few years! or months, considering it gets pretty hot in my garage in the summer...
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not going to touch that one bit. Jimmy might... but I won't...

I think I will leave it alone this time too.. :lol:

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