Know the Mood of Your Audi with This Jaw-dropping Dip Your Car Technique
Unique pigment used to make mood rings applied atop dipped Audi changes with the temperature constantly for a trippy experience.
One of the best ways to make your Audi stand out is with a stunning paint job. Audi itself knows this, which is why it offers a bespoke paint studio. After all, where else could you have a lime green RS 6 Avant from the factory?
What if you wanted an Audi with every color, though? One whose colors changed constantly? Without looking at the car from different angles? Fonzie of Dip Your Car recently got a hold of some magic to make such a thing happen, one used to make mood rings.
Time to Crush Your Childhood Dreams
“Do you remember those mood rings that you would play with when you were a kid (or maybe you still play with them now0?” asked Fonzie. “You put ’em on your finger, and the slightest change in temperature would change the color of the ring. And there’s a whole bunch of colors it would shift to.”
Turns out the magic is thermotropic liquid crystals, which can change color with every four- to five-degree shift in the temperature. It may not look like much in the glass beaker, but there’s a matte black Audi ready to make it all happen.
The Perfect Audi Base
“We’ve got a black peelable base already down on the car,” said Fonzie. “It’s a water-based substance; it takes a while to dry. We’re just going to mist it over the black plasti-dip until we get full coverage. It’s going to be wild. Let’s jump right in.”
Eight coats of the thermotropic liquid crystal solution were applied to the Audi, each coat taking a long time to dry. The pigment itself wasn’t sealed onto the plasti-dip, as it was merely a fun experiment. And how!
Behold the Magic
“We finished the project,” said Fonzie, “and the only thing I want to do the entire rest of today is play with this car. It came out so freaking cool […] I’ll bet you right now from the time that we just get the car out of the booth and in front of the building, it’s going to look completely different.”
True to his prediction, the Audi changed from matte black to green. Then to blue. Then to purple. Then all of the colors. Why have a mood ring when you can have a mood car?
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