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Protecting new diy4x bumper?

rgretzinger

rgretzinger

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I am having a hard time figuring out what to do here? I am going to be recieving my new rear bumper this week and I can't make up my mind between paint, powder coating or spray on bed liner. I am having the rig painted in a couple of months so I want it to look nicer than a rattle can job. Ideas, thoughts?
 
rgretzinger said:
I am having a hard time figuring out what to do here? I am going to be recieving my new rear bumper this week and I can't make up my mind between paint, powder coating or spray on bed liner. I am having the rig painted in a couple of months so I want it to look nicer than a rattle can job. Ideas, thoughts?
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Cant beat powder coating. Spray on bed liner just doesnt look right on flat smooth surfaces plus some of it is UV vulnerable so it needs to be top coated.
 
Spray adhesive and astro turf :waytogo:

I see what you're saying about the bed liner, it CAN look awesome, but not matched to a nice new paint job. Maybe matching a color paint ontop of the liner to something that compliments the paint job? What about a satin finish instead of a high gloss like powder coating? It's paint, can always strip it if ya don't like it.
 
I don't think you know how to properly use this new bumper.
Obviously you should surrender it to me and I'll show you what it's meant for.
It will get ugly spray on paint to match the ugly sprayed truck. And will see many touch up coats just like the 4x4 gods had intended.
 
i vote for candy apple coating...

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it'd be sweet!!!! ba-dump-bump!


in all seriousness... powdercoating will be toughest, but will be fubared if it ever gets nicked, drilled into, etc... some good primer and rattlecans gets my vote, easy touch up, cheap....
 
A good thorough cleaning, some Rustoleum clean metal primer and some Rustoleum gloss black paint, that's the route I'd take. Maybe not the absolute most durable set up BUT, it's cheap, looks good, and touches up easy! :waytogo:
 
OK, been there, done that. DON'T use POR-15. Either use something really easy, like black rustoleum and re-do it every couple of years or do it right and powdercoat it. It costs more in the long run to blast the rust off and prep for the powdercoat later than to do it right away while the steel is raw. There is nothing in a rattle can that offers long-term protection.
 
If you're a poser get it powdercoated...

If ya wheel spray it with rustoleum ultra coat 2x coverage stuff and be done.
 
The bedliner will just peel off if you hit anything with it. I bought mine already done and thats what it does.
 
I don't think there is a coating out there that is realistic that can take the abuse that rocks are more than willin' to dish out on a moments notice.

It always comes down to the choice, Do you want to touch it up yourself with some simple rattle can or maybe do somethin' a little more durable that is more difficult/expensive to touch up at a later date? Depending on how you wheel will determine how far away that later is.

If I had to pick one for you.... Have it powder coated, have your guy put it on thick and heavy. Our bumpers always look just smidge sexier in powder.:D
 
I had mine powdercoated satin black which isn't that shiney...there are MANY options as fas as shine of colors with pc...I bought a sum gm black touch up paint to touch up my bumper and it works good for me...I vote powdercoating...
 
Here's a webpage I put up showing the prep and stuff I did for my DIY4X bumpers.

http://www.reid.org/~dreid/89suburban/bumpers/bumpers.htm

The short answer is that I chose to make something I could touch up. So I etched and primered them carefully (I took a few days to do it, and built a little area in the garage to make sure it would dry evenly) and then put down a few coats of RustOleum.

Then I bought a bunch of spare cans, and stored them in case they stopped selling that color. :)

I actually wound up making several mods to the bumpers later (Kurt built me a new different gas carrier, and I added antenna mounts, etc), and I was super glad I could retouch.

I don't rockcrawl in the suburban, but the paint has held up to probably 25.000 miles without basically ever being washed. :)

-Dan
 
Too those that want to know I am going to do a rattle can job. I really like the idea of powdercoating it but why pay all of that money for something that is just going to get messed up any ways. I will take pictures and let you know how it came out.
 
Avery4jc said:
If you're a poser get it powdercoated...

If ya wheel spray it with rustoleum ultra coat 2x coverage stuff and be done.
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You California guys have no idea....

I tried rattle can rustoleum - rusted 1st winter
I tried POR-15 - top coat peeled in under 1 year, started rusting the 2nd, after 3 or 4 I was pulling it off in strips.

I just picked up the bumper from the powdercoater yesterday...
 
Blue85 said:
You California guys have no idea....

I tried rattle can rustoleum - rusted 1st winter
I tried POR-15 - top coat peeled in under 1 year, started rusting the 2nd, after 3 or 4 I was pulling it off in strips.

I just picked up the bumper from the powdercoater yesterday...
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This and the other post, POR15 isn't supposed to be exposed to UV light. Undercarriage with a topcoat and floor boards it's fine.

Rattle can rustoleum, like any rattle can, all depends on the prep, but ya, eventually... here's a nice thread about rustoleum applied by rollers. Basically a high quality 'rattle can' job, I remember this guy when he was doing it, turned out great. http://www.oldspower.com/vb/showthread.php?t=36857
 
mrschaeferpants said:
This and the other post, POR15 isn't supposed to be exposed to UV light. Undercarriage with a topcoat and floor boards it's fine.

Rattle can rustoleum, like any rattle can, all depends on the prep, but ya, eventually... here's a nice thread about rustoleum applied by rollers. Basically a high quality 'rattle can' job, I remember this guy when he was doing it, turned out great. http://www.oldspower.com/vb/showthread.php?t=36857
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That's why POR-15 sells "Blackcoat" and that is what peeled off. Their products are 10% technology and 90% marketing.

If degreaser and then Rustoleum primer over fresh raw steel isn't good prep, then what am I supposed to do? (This was actually on my rock sliders, not my bumper, but what's the difference?)
 
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