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Make sure you buy enough dip. I used 6 gallons when I dipped my truck from black to white and I didn't do the roof. With that said, white doesn't cover as well as other colors, so it might be a little less depending on what color you're going with. I'll be dipping mine again in the next couple of months. Still can't decide on what color tho. Here's a pic if mine, it was dipped for about a year
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Thanks for the tips!

I'll be dipping mine from white to black and just doing a matte finish. I'm not having to do bumpers because I have tube bumpers so I figured that would save me some dip. I talked to the guys at dyc and they said 5 gallons should cover the entirety of my 02 pretty thoroughly.
 

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Yea I can see 5 gallons would work. You'll probably get full Coverage on the 3rd gallon if your doing matte black. 4th and 5th gal will just add thickness so it's easy to peel down the road. Like I said going from black to white suck lol! Make sure to tape your Window sills really good, that's the only problem area I had. I tried testing just peeling the seals but there's not enough separation from the body of the truck. So just tape them off the best you can, also tape off all lights and windows, that'll save quite a bit of product as well.

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For sure! I'm gonna remove some things like the roof rack, lights, and fender flares.

You think putting the flares back on with 3m adhesive will hold up?
 

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Yea just make sure you buy the heavy duty 3M tape and make sure it's the thin style. Why are you removing the flares? You shouldn't have to remove your flares unless you want to keep them oem color even then you could just peel them after the fact

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Do you have the factory flares? What do you drive? There should be enough gap between them and the body for you to peel it without issue. If your worried about it grab a can from home depot and test a small section

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