dont get me wrong, im not putting down ricers or the younger generations getting their little fingers on a car i once paid $40,000 for when it was new. i was once in their shoes myself. at 28, i think and see things differently than i did at 17. so if you have a business or a resellers 'thing' going on that targets and markets to the younger generation and you do things to your car that your targeted customer base likes/wants to see = more power to you, and do what you feel is right. think of it as a rolling advertisement.

i simply wanted to put the other members on here into a little reality check. a 5yr old infiniti with 75,000 on the clock isn't living the 'high-life' anymore. its just a pretty-nice car at this point. and if someone considers it as 'made it in life' with said car, then you are no better than a low-rent playa rockin a off-lease CLK thinkin he's now a big-time baller. lol

surely some things are gonna look beat, and some things are gonna look ghetto, and some things are gonna look ghay, but at the end of the day - dont sit there and act offended that someone in some way 'belittled' your car, by doing something questionable to theirs. thats just stupid, and conceded.

 

oh stop. everyone has different views & tastes, and learn to accept that, otherwise- go start your own forum where you can do quality control based upon your likes & dislikes.

i agree, that he was asking for it - by posting pictures of his car with mods. i only know of maybe a handful of threads on here that have not gotten some form of "i dont like it" posts- AND I AM 100% SURE HE WAS EXPECTING IT, AS DO I, WHEN I POST PICTURES OF MY CAR, or racebike on their respective forums. different strokes, for different folks. the only thing i wanted to chime in on is that attitude of "how dare you belittle all of our cars, by doing mods that Hispanics do to their civics" BS that was subliminally coming through the posts of some of the people on here.

 

yea, because only ricers & integra's do this

 

This thread is very entertaining lol.

 

Agreed on this

 

Some g37 drivers maybe stuck up because our cars have a very clean look, no flash, no enourmous hood scoops or giant wings for downforce, anyone who adds such a device is immediately attacked and called a ricer. Of course this is true, but when someone asks an opinion on something you can be professional about your response or insult them, personally I like to give helpful comments. As a designer you never know what's going to work until you explore outside the box.

 

very well said. i dont mind getting peoples true opinions, no matter how harsh it can be. i just despise the snottiness from people.

 

I'm not sure if this is directed at me or not - my intentions were never to come across as snotty, but I will respond...

I don't think anyone in here is debating the fact that cars depreciate in value and, thus, end up with younger owners who execute questionable modifications, if we can even call them that. That happens with every platform.

My point above was that this thread doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me. The OP states that "looking good" is not the goal of the "project." Okay... Can I ask what is the goal? If it is to promote a business, I get it. What has me confused is the idea of promoting a business to a group whom he has stated is not his target audience on a car that is not in his target market.

On top of that, he then remarks that people here think they are driving a Ferrari and that G37 owners are close-minded and stuck-up, a statement which would lead me to believe that, if he owned a Ferrari, he would consider it too nice a vehicle on which to put $4 spray rubber. Is that not a reasonable deduction given the facts? But then he disputes that, saying he would be the first to put PlastiDip on a Ferrari.

So, the goal was to post a thread that, given the love affair with PlastiDip the OP has illustrated in past threads, he had to know would not be at the receiving end of much praise by the people he would ultimately end up insulting with blanket characterizations? Does not exactly seem like a brilliant business model.

I don't have a problem with the OP. And, like I said above, I don't even have a problem with colored wheels. I actually like them if the car has an otherwise aggressive set-up, like the Supra posted above. What I do not like is when stock wheels are painted/dipped. On top of that, bluntly, I just do not like Plasti-Dip as a method for "modifying" a car. I don't like it on a new car or a car whose value is fully depreciated. I don't like it on a '92 Civic, I don't like it on a G37, and I don't like it on a Ferrari.

 

then you'd hate my car:

 

I don't really care what you do and don't like, that's up to you. I could care less when people say it's butt ugly or whatever they think, that's their opinion. The only thing annoying is when they get snobby and offensive with their comments...there is no need for that.

Who on earth do you think my target market is? Why do you care about my business. It's doing fine no thanks to you so I don't get your need to criticize it. First of all it's a LOCAL business and 2nd it's for people who may want a cheap alternative to getting their cars painted. Most of my customers at the moment are friends and their friends. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it wrong.

I never said anything regarding to plasti dipping a ferrari. All I said was some people on their forum act like they drive a ferrari as in a totally different CLASS of car.

Like I said, what you like or do not like, it doesn't matter to me. I appreciate that you laid your opinions out respectfully unlike some of the other people on here. Truth is there ARE people out there that like things like this. I needed something that stands out to promote my business because having black wheels just made my car blend in. Nobody noticed, nobody knew what "dip" was. Now I have blue rims and people have been questioning me all day on them. Already got 2 people lined up to get theirs done.

What some people (not saying you) need to learn is how to get their opinions out RESPECTFULLY. They need to learn to criticize the car and not the driver. That just makes them look ignorant.

 

This car definitely made me want to do mine black the first time :P Looks good man.

 

First of all, thank you for acknowledging that I was not disrespectful. If you look back at my first post, I never attacked you or your car. I just questioned the points you had made after some of the negative responses because they did not exactly make sense to me. I was not trying to be a "snot."

To address your other points... I was not the one who brought up your business. You brought it into this thread; not me. I made no mention of your business until you did.

You didn't say anything about PlastiDipping a Ferrari? Maybe I'm confused, but I thought you said you would be "the first one to do it" in post #17.

As for the respect thing, I agree with you. There is a way to express an opinion without being a jerk. I also believe respect is a two-way street. If one desires respect from others, one should probably be respectful, as well.

Anyway, I just wanted to stress that I was not trying to be a jerk towards you or your car. Despite my dislike for PlastiDip, your car is far from the worst I have seen. I do think, sometimes, that people on here are only open to praise when they post pictures of their cars or ask for opinions. It's as though the only comments allowed in MyG37 threads are positive ones, or else you're a "hater," "snot," or "tough guy." That said, I wish you the best with your car and your business venture.

 

Thanks, I know I may have seemed like I attacked you for some things you didn't do but it probably wasn't towards you and for that I apologize. My original post about a ferrari was just saying that some people here act like they drive a ferrari. Then someone else asked me if I wouldn't plasti dip a ferrari and that's when I said i'd be the first one to do it.

Anyways, i do agree, I have said in the past that I'm not a fan of plasti dip seeing how it dulls out and stuff over time...but people like it and it brings business, so why not try eh? I currently work the overnight shift + balance college so if I make this work out (blue was a marketing technique) I can get my damn sleep cycle back to normal.

I don't mind the bad comments, it just pisses me off how people tend to make offensive remarks about the driver and the driver's taste...there's no need for that.

 

OK soooo I'm STILL super confused. Is this real?

jesse550: Do you have a line of highlighters or something?

Im so lost lol.

A lot of haters in here though.

 

Yeah it's real lol, it's just blue plasti dip. The haters can hate all they want :P All I know is that this is helping me make some extra cash. Did it to make my car stand out without having to plasti dip the whole car since I have my website links on the front and back windshields.

here's a vid: