Best DIY Roll on Bedliner?
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While we're on the topic... The brackets that hold my chrome running boards to the bottom of the truck were painted black from the factory and over the years stones and whatever else have chipped it all away and it looks bad. Has anyone ever coated these things with black roll-on bedliner? Does that sound like a good idea to do?
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I will agree with you! Thats why I spent the extra $40.00 and got an extra qt and put it on nice and thick.
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Just thought I'd chime in, I know some who has done a diy liner (don't know what brand) from 3 years ago and it has held up VERY well. Would put it up against any of those expensive *** line-x or rhino liners any day. Went and got a price from dealers who do that, and because I have an 8' bed I'm looking at $600 for the rhino and $650 for the line-x. Well they can kiss my a**. I see a lot of nay sayers on this thread, my question to you folks is how many of you chiming in have ACTUALLY done your own liner? I apologize to you guys if this comes off as offensive as I'm not trying to start something here, but alot of you are responding like you are experts on the subject. I certainly am not an expert, and have never done 1 myself, but have been researching this subject for a little while now as this is the route I'm going in the near future, and have found some very interesting information. Really looks like the prep work is THE most important issue, and what brand you decide to use being the second most important. I plan on using the Raptor liner as a buddy of mine who works in a local shop uses that brand and has had great success with it, that coming from customers of his (though the liners have not been on for very long) they all seem very happy with the results. As for only getting 1 gallon, I will throw a little more money at it and get a couple of quarts more.
Last edited by mitch150; 06-07-2010 at 09:15 AM.
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If Raptor works for you, then great. It's good to have choices.
This is just for fun:
If you look at U-pol Raptor's MSDS, you will see that it contains 683 grams/liter of solids (which is about 68%). That means that 317 grams/liter is solvents that evaporate away (which is about 32%). So, for every gallon of Raptor you buy, you only get about 3/4 of a gallon of actual "bedliner". So, using a useful formula that I have and assuming you have a short bed truck (6.5 ft) which has about 78 sqft to spray with the bedliner, then one gallon of Raptor will give you about a 15 mil thickness (or .015 inches). That's pretty darn thin. Just to compare, LINE-X and Rhino will apply about 8 gallons solvent free.
Durability wise, Raptor (which is made in the UK) unfortunately does not publish technical specs. The only thing we know is that according to their site, it's "2K paint". However, assuming it's like all the rest of the solvent based store bought bedliner products, it's honestly not as durable as the professional products.
Again, I'm not trying to start any thing here, if one (or two) gallons of Raptor works for you, then that's all that matters.
This is just for fun:
If you look at U-pol Raptor's MSDS, you will see that it contains 683 grams/liter of solids (which is about 68%). That means that 317 grams/liter is solvents that evaporate away (which is about 32%). So, for every gallon of Raptor you buy, you only get about 3/4 of a gallon of actual "bedliner". So, using a useful formula that I have and assuming you have a short bed truck (6.5 ft) which has about 78 sqft to spray with the bedliner, then one gallon of Raptor will give you about a 15 mil thickness (or .015 inches). That's pretty darn thin. Just to compare, LINE-X and Rhino will apply about 8 gallons solvent free.
Durability wise, Raptor (which is made in the UK) unfortunately does not publish technical specs. The only thing we know is that according to their site, it's "2K paint". However, assuming it's like all the rest of the solvent based store bought bedliner products, it's honestly not as durable as the professional products.
Again, I'm not trying to start any thing here, if one (or two) gallons of Raptor works for you, then that's all that matters.