Xperties and Blueovalboy: Did you guys use the crap in the spraycan or this: http://www.bedarmor.com/bedarmor.php? Just wondering because I have the Bed Armor in the back of my mind and was possibly thinking about using it someday on my truck.

 

bed armor is what i used the first time and then when i ranted to the dulip-color people thay sent me rattle cans for the touch up

 

Well that sucks. I thought that was the best option out there right now for DIY kits.

 

I used the bed armor kit + an extra can. I did it in 80 degree weather, sanded with electric hand sander with light paper (just enough to scuff it up real good) then wiped it down with 3 times with Acetone, applied first coat, waited 1 hour, applied second coat, waited about 2 hours then applied the rest I had in both cans. It sat in direct sunlight for about a week before ever being used.

 

ya i fallowed the directions to the letter.
i have always been anel about my trucks
(how i keep them) so i am sure i went anel over board on the prep and usage!
here's the deal i spent like 2 days doing the prep and application of it. around here it was like $475 to $525 for the pros to do it.
when you add my time i took off work and did it lets say 10 hours at $42.38 an hour. plus $80 for the kit i spent $502.80. i should have let a shop do it and save me the labor and i could have been happy lol
and it was more like 10 hours of prep and on sunday i spent 4 hours to install it

 

I used it on the metal floor on my 4x6 trailer last summer. We used rough sandpaper on a sander. I just use it to haul my mower it looked good the last time I saw it. Its buried in snow till
spring.

 

the thing is though, you guys can't compare any of this stuff to a bedliner. The thickness of these kits is just enough to give you a non-skid surface, not an actual bedliner.

 

If you are speaking of a bedliner insert "plastic" than of course you can't BUT a bedliner will result in rust faster than anyone else with a DIY roll on kit or professional spray liner.

 

No i was meaning an actual spray on bedliner. It goes down WAY thicker than any DIY kits. The thin layer on the roll on kits is one of the main reasons why the scrape up so easily.

 

That, I think, was never being debated. I would assume everyone knows rhino/line-x stuff is the best but for a DIY guy or low on funds guy like myself I had great results from bed armor.

 

haha yes i know, but alot of people when the talk about doing diy liners talk about how they don't like how they are holding up and this and that say they are crap and expect them to live up to rhino or line-x expectations. Nonetheless the old duplicolor liners were crap but i have heard good things about the new bedarmor.