What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Do you know if the vinyl and trim dye will get water spots as bad as paint? I did some stuff on my old mustang with satin black paint and it got water spots real bad after a few months.

 

Not sure but I've never had that problem before. I wouldn't think it would

 

I used dupli color vinyl paint, has worked well though only h had it on for about two weeks.

Haven't had any problems and its rained and i washed the truck. Magic man had had his done for a while so he would know.

 

Put in a new radiator, turns out that it's about an inch too tall so now my front skid doesn't fit...

Damnit

 

Gear Head--
Use Duplicolor vinyl and fabric dye. (see attached)

Plasti-dipped the chrome (bumper and grill) and dyed the valance about 2 weeks ago, has seen rain and mud and has held up great!


Also plasti dipped the rear bumper:

 

Looks good man! I actually have a can of that stuff at home from when I 2 toned the door panels on my last Tacoma about 4 years ago. I also bought a can of plasti-dip a couple weeks ago to mess around with. Just haven't had a chance to try anything yet. The dye matches the dip pretty well! How many cans of the dye did you use for the bumper? 3/4 of a can did 4 coats on both my doors, and then I redid them with another 2 coats a year or so after.

 

I remember when mine looked that good! Ima have to redo them both for sure after seeing this!

 

What did you use and how long have you had it on?

 

Plasti dip...only put like two quick coats though, it lasted over a year without peeling

 

I'm still waiting on my plastidip I ordered to come in, nobody around here sells it... It was supposed to be here today, but now it shows that it won't be here until The end of January...

 

What the?! Thats weird they sell it locally at Lowes here but thats pretty much the only place you can find it here..its also only certain locations

 

The first place I looked was Lowes, then just about every other hardware store in the area. Kind of annoyed that I couldn't find it. And on top of that I couldn't even wash my truck today because none of the car washes allow you to hand wash your vehicle...

 

Here are some horrible shots. I'll get some better ones coming up. Keep in mind, my headlight housings are super fogged (I need to restore them) & there isn't any cool subject matter- like an open field to compare on, also I didn't do my brights...etc.





Things we can conclude from this:

I didn't do brights for my neighbors sake,

The lights are white, and not blue, and that wall is cream colored

Sorry for not being much help

 

My first mod I've ever done lol. Two new fog lamps with a car wash . Not much, but I'm proud of myself lol

 

Nice !! & welcome to TW...

 

Everybody starts somewhere Just glad you're workin on it

 

WTF! We've got it all over here. If its legal for me to ship I'd be more then willing.

Nice!

And welcome!

 

I really need to wire up some on my truck. Fuck so many things so little time and even less $

 

Looks very nice. Every one of us stared out with a first mod. Now we can't keep our wallets shut.

 

New Billet Grille finally, and some new black bumper fillers..