Bedliner thoughts

tangojeff · Samba Member Joined: February 20, 2005 Posts: 209

Last month, when I picked up my Westy from getting a repaint in Savanah Biege, the ol' body shop owner said to me, "You know I could have shot the lower side panels with Gravel Guard before we painted on the gold. Tough stuff, it would have looked like the sides of your Miata; not too conspicuous and pretty hard to chip, too." Maybe next time?

purplepeopleeater · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:13 am Post subject:

I had that on one of my other vanagons, it works great...however it looks like orange peel from hell and everyone always says "man you sure did a bad job on the bottom" Laughing

Bruce Wayne · Samba Member Joined: May 15, 2007 Posts: 1210

2 years old. Plastikote is the brand. cost me a whole $54. used a roller to put it on.touched up a couple of spots earlier this year. also did the front bumper. hit it with some tire cleaner when you want it to it look "new" again. pic is from NWMF last week.

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Phishman068 · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:42 pm Post subject:

I am thinking of doing this to my syncro that has almost nothing but rock chips on the bottom portion (almost all the paint is gone!). There is not yet any surface rust but it will inevitably start so it makes sense to prevent it.

With that said, the body could use a paint job. However, I don't plan to do a paint job just yet. If i put the LineX treatment on the bottom portion is there any reason why that would make it harder to paint properly down the road?
I wouldn't be painting over it.

Terry Kay · Banned Joined: June 22, 2003 Posts: 13331

The only problem here would be getting a sharp masking line where the bedliner ends, or starts at the body line.

Lumpy don't make for good masking.
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purplepeopleeater · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject:

finished.

Terry Kay · Banned Joined: June 22, 2003 Posts: 13331

Looks Nice.

I know the black is readily available, but I for one would go with the Monochromatic / same color as the body look & tint the bedliner.
Blends in a little better with the whole thought----

Other than that -- it came out nice.
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PIRATE · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:37 am Post subject:

purplepeopleeater · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:47 am Post subject:

Herr Motorspiele · Samba Member Joined: June 11, 2007 Posts: 437

Californio · Samba Member Joined: May 17, 2007 Posts: 1305

Yes, the valley/where to stop issue is important and it'd be nice to see closeups.

I just got a Durabak color chip in the mail. Dark grey, looks like the color to go with on my white Syncro.

Is Durabak any good? I'm planning on sanding the lower panels down with 150 grit and wire brushing out the rust/crap in the seams first but with that, does this stuff hold on?

purplepeopleeater · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:32 am Post subject:

I used raptor, they have it in black or a color of your choice.
I used the gun they have in the kit....sanded the heck outta it and made sure it was "paint ready" you want to make sure its prepped gooood.

purplepeopleeater · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:33 am Post subject:

That pic shows where it got kinda wavy... I copied go westy pretty much

dlb154 · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:04 pm Post subject:

Look great up close and from a distance. Nice job.

When you masked off for sanding, how did you control sanding right to the edge without grinding through the masking? Did that masking stay in place and get a new strip over it before spraying the bed liner?

Has anyone used that green Frog masking for interior household painting? I wonder if that's a good masking tape to use rather than the typical blue. It's designed to expand and seal for a cleaner line.

purplepeopleeater · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:05 pm Post subject:

I sanded right up over the masking tape, some areas I had to retape...I hand sanded the area leading up to the edge.

hopefully it doesn't pull back from the edge, Its fresh paint so I think i'm safe.

The Raven · Samba Member Joined: July 31, 2011 Posts: 303

Terry Kay · Banned Joined: June 22, 2003 Posts: 13331

I wonder why you didn't run the tape with the body line--would have made it a little easier to follow.

In masking, I would have used 1/8th or 16th fine line first, then 3/4 taped over it with the masking paper attached to the tape off of the masking roll.

You can see if the tape is running straight pretty easy with the fine line tape first.
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PIRATE · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:05 pm Post subject:

You did a great job the texture looks great that raptor product looks awesome . I've heard the prep is really important it's just so hard when you have a fresh paint job .
Thanks
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purplepeopleeater · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject:

Honuak · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:10 pm Post subject:

I doubt it matters that much but when I did mine the paint guy told me that tinting bedliner affects the durability of the product. Black is toughest because it has no additives. Still, I bet the pigmented stuff is still plenty tough. I went with black cuz it happened to go well with my overall look.


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