adrenaline503
Explorer
Thanks for all the info, I wonder if I should do it in black, gray or match the blue color of my truck.
Bedlining Vehicle Bodies
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jh504
Explorer
adrenaline503 said:
Just my opinion, the ones that I have seen that are actually colored, after a while dont look so good to me. I think it kind of looks cheap, but that is a matter of personal taste. I would go with black or grey. I bet grey would look pretty good against the blue.
Whatever you end up with post a picture to let us know how it turns out.
adrenaline503
Explorer
jh504 said:
Yea, I was thinking gray. It will be a while, but I'll get it done.
cruiseroutfit
Well-known member
AlpineSMB said:
You have a PM
cruiseroutfit
Well-known member
jh504 said:
I need to take some recent photos... eventually I'll do a build thread on the truck
adrenaline503
Explorer
Is anyone on here good with photoshop? I am curious what it would look like.
JRhetts
Adventurer
"Bedliner" on Vehicle
I sprayed the lower panels of my Ford F-450 and camper [below horiz line from front door to rear of camper in attached picture] (~ $500.00) to reduce rock chips. After a lot of research, I went with Speedliner, as they were the only ones who would use Ford paint in their spray-on material, meaning that the spray-on material was one color throughout, well-matched to the rest of the vehicle - and chips if they happened would not reveal another color underneath.
I needed to do this because driving on gravel/dirt roads and tracks were rock-blasting the lower sides -- so much so on the leading edges of the front fairings that the fiber glass was being eaten through. When I tried the 3M film, it got eaten through in <3000 miles.
After 40,000 plus miles, you cannot even see any wear in the spray-on material at those points, the paint match between the sprayed lower part and the upper doors and house are simply GREAT.
Using someone who is really experienced is vital. I would not use just anyone. I'd want to see their work on a comparable job before doing it.
Weight addition is minimal. I got a quote for doing my whole camper, which I will probably do on the next one to reduce "desert pinstriping", and the estimate was that it would add 50# by doing the whole camper unit.
I sprayed the lower panels of my Ford F-450 and camper [below horiz line from front door to rear of camper in attached picture] (~ $500.00) to reduce rock chips. After a lot of research, I went with Speedliner, as they were the only ones who would use Ford paint in their spray-on material, meaning that the spray-on material was one color throughout, well-matched to the rest of the vehicle - and chips if they happened would not reveal another color underneath.
I needed to do this because driving on gravel/dirt roads and tracks were rock-blasting the lower sides -- so much so on the leading edges of the front fairings that the fiber glass was being eaten through. When I tried the 3M film, it got eaten through in <3000 miles.
After 40,000 plus miles, you cannot even see any wear in the spray-on material at those points, the paint match between the sprayed lower part and the upper doors and house are simply GREAT.
Using someone who is really experienced is vital. I would not use just anyone. I'd want to see their work on a comparable job before doing it.
Weight addition is minimal. I got a quote for doing my whole camper, which I will probably do on the next one to reduce "desert pinstriping", and the estimate was that it would add 50# by doing the whole camper unit.
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jim65wagon
Well-known member
jh504 said:
I can attest to the quality of the color match on Haggis' truck. It looks killer up close, the color is a proper match to the green on the truck and it's holding very well....
As for the durability of Rhino, (it's the bed not the body) this was done to our truck two weeks after we bought it new in 2002. It's been through countless rains, snows, sunny days, loads of firewood, gravel, sand, dirt, trees, mulch, camping gear, fishing gear, oily things, greasy things, dead things; and other than a few cuts where we got a little overzealous in our shovelings it's still in great shape.