Talk me out of Raptor lining my truck

02 dcsb with bad paint fading and peeling. I’ve been thinking about doing raptor liner and changing colors. Different color door jams would bug me but are not a deal breaker. My truck is red all the trucks I’ve seen bedlined red or maroon look pink especially when dusty. I’m thinking a green as close to trd pro army green. I really like quicksand too but I have a tundra that color. Anyone have first hand experience with raptor liner?

 

I don’t have any first hand experience with it but from what I’ve seen I was planning on doing the same once my paint gets pretty bad. Not sure you if watch 4wd action or not but they’ve got an 80 series land cruiser that they raptor lined and he said he thinned it out a little and it looks pretty good, I think it looks better thinned out, not as lumpy thick texture like some I’ve seen. I would encourage it lol.

 

Actually saw a white bed-lined first gen in Alabama a couple weeks ago. It looked good.

 

Can't help you there. You're far better off doing raptor liner than trying to repaint it. Plus it just looks bad ass!

 

Get roll on monstaliner and paint the doorjambs. Best of both worlds.

 

How hard is it to get clean once it gets muddy?

 

In the old days we used the roll on bed liner and then went to spraying it on with a texture gun. Hands down, spraying works better. Less wasted material and better coverage. Definitely paint the door jams with a close match spray paint before you do it.

 

Not super hard. I only ever use dish soap and a brush. But I also don't really care about my truck being dirty. If you're one of those guys that washes your vehicle every week and has different soaps and waxes, then it's probably not the route for you.

 

I used rustoleum bedliner on my whole truck for the same reason. You should really sand the paint off first and expose the light light blue primer. Better adhesion and you dont have to worry about the undercoat showing through.

Be warned that the bedliner does fade a bit with time, so you will need to spray paint down the road (maybe a year later). I need to paint mine.

I have not washed my truck since I bedlined it...almost 2 years ago.

 

Also...do yourself a favor and cover anything you don't want to spray...suspension components, brakes, radiator, windows, head lights.

 

Why do you want to be talked our of it is the question.

Don't do it for looks.

 

I guess since it’s kinda non removable. I worked at a body shop and when we would have to remove bedliner to do repairs on a bed or tailgate it sucked, I couldn’t imagine an entire truck. And as far as value I’m not sure what’s worse faded ,peeling paint or bedliner

 

I just finished with painting my truck with tinted (color-matched) Raptor liner. I stayed with the same color for exactly the reasons you mention, painting door frames, engine bay, under the hood, around tail gate, and so on. All in all, I am quite pleased with the outcome, although I have some streakiness on some of my panels. This was operator error, not really a problem with the product. It was partly because I did mine in a number of different sessions, sprayed the cap and hood first, then I did the box, then the body, doors, and roof, and lastly the two front fenders. Also painted the fender flares with black. Everything was sanded with 80 grit to provide good bite, except the flares. I removed most everything I could, including taillights, window trim, rubber weatherstrip. It was time consuming, but during Covid, I have plenty of time on my hands. I also masked all of the windows, and masked around the inside of the doors (to minimize overspray inside the jambs). I used 3 oz of reducer, 3 oz of color, and the required 8+ oz of hardener for each bottle. I used mixing cups, rather than just shaking the bottle, and felt this gave good consistency after thorough stirring and putting some back in the bottle and rinsing it out, back in to my mix cup. In total, I shot 8 bottles, and probably should have done another one or two. 70 lbs pressure. Also, I purchased the professional gun, and HIGHLY recommend this over the one provided with the kit. I tried the kit one first, but only shot one bottle with it. It just put out way too much product too quickly and is not adjustable. I removed masking tape after about an hour, pulling back over itself as is standard practice. Nothing much I would do different, other than try to paint the entire truck in one session. Any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

 

awesome, do you have any pics by chance? I will definitely hit you up if I decide to go this route. Did you pull the hood, fenders and bed off the truck?

 

Yes, I was replacing the bed and fenders (also two doors). Truck was wrecked and repaired all down the passenger side, and I found rustfree replacements in Florida.

 

Looks good bro, I definitely like the smoother look. I’ve seen a few that look like stucco and that’s honestly one of the reasons that turned me off to the idea. On another truck I herculined the bumpers and they looked great for a few months. But they faded quickly and were impossible to clean. It was like sand paper and seemed like it was getting thinner, you could see the bumper underneath and that was 3 heavy rolled on coats. I looked into line x but it’s no cheaper than paint and you have to add a uv topcoat or it fades quick

 

Yes, it certainly would suck. I would paint rolled on Rustoleum before I bedlined. Then color sand. It looks nice and is paint.

 

This looks good. Nice job.

 

That looks really good!

 

What color you chose?