The plasti dip technology has come a long was, as has the vinyl wrap film products. I've never done plasti dip. I tried to sell a guy on it for some accents but it was new to him and he wasn't having it. I've wrapped a few vehicles, fulls and partial. Took a two day training class put on by Orafol.
Wrapped a few boats, usually just the hull but I did do topsides and hull on an old classic Chris Craft. Three grand to wrap versus 8 to 10 grand for paint with Awlgrip.
I've done odds and ends like helmets, carbon fiber accents, color changes to interior and exterior components.
I think there's probably arguments for both products. Wraps do take some patience and aspects of it often require additional sets of hands. You can start and stop anywhere along the process and return later. Both require meticulous prep time. No taping off for the wraps but there is a lot of trimming and you can screw up a really good wrap or paint with a bad cut. Plasti dip recommends taping off. Apparently they've had trouble with some plastics reacting with the product.
For the wraps, the environment must be clean but with plasti dip I would think you'd want paint shop clean because your working with compressed air and hopefully you're wearing a respirator, and moving airflow through the work space. I haven't dug into the plasti dip options for color but my wrap cards have maybe 75 to 100 different color options with some variation between manufacturers. Although, I have never actually counted the colors. There are also textures, like the carbon fiber for example. Color shift films are the latest trend and new colors are coming out all the time. Chrome films in various shades like red, blue, smoked chrome, mirror gold,... You can also do embossing with wraps, trimming out a vehicle in multiple colors is possible. It may be possible to emboss with plasti dip over vinyl. Hmmm???
One thing I am curious about is whether you can apply vinyl graphics over plasti dip and, if the time comes, remove them without damage to the finish. I know I can remove vinyl from vinyl.
