Bedliner for plate bumpers

I am looking for recommendations and/or "watch out"s for types of bedliner to use on the plate bumpers that I will be building, as soon as they arrive. Obviously, I am looking at durability, as well as color fade, etc. I'm thinking roll-on is probably better, but... Just looking for everyone's experiences, good or bad.

 

I've had good results with Rust-Oleum bed coating. I like the finish. It's not as chunky as some of the other coatings. Used it on my rear OEM bumper, fender flares, rear plate bumper, and sliders.

 

I use rust-oleum bed liner on my grille, and the outer chrome pieces of my running lights, the only thing i would watch out for is making sure that you sand down whatever your spraying before you spray it, With the bedliner, if you dont sand for say your grille before you spray, the liner wont set properly and it will easily start chipping from rocks, bugs, and opening your hood and so on. Its tough stuff thou!

 

I like Monstaliner quite well. It is a roll on or spray application, your choice. Did the inside of my Landcruiser tub with it and the stuff is tough as nails! Comes in darn near
any color you could want too..

That's my opinion, every one has one

 

Raptor liner is awesome. Especially when properly prepping the surface. It leaves a nice texture as well.

 

I have had way better luck spraying it on instead of rolling. Spraying has a fine texture and depending on how you roll it on it can be kinda chunky.

 

Another vote for spray-on Rustoleum. Has held up well on winch-bumper, sliders, and skid and easily touched up. Light sand and maybe de-gloss for prep. I do wish I could find something other than black at local stores.

 

Do you think you could add a top color coat to it about 20-30 after you spray the final coat of Rustoleum bed spray? Similar to how you'd do a clear coat on top of a base coat

 

Worth a try I guess...

 

I'm not really a fan of the bedliner type stuff for bumpers, same goes for powder coating. At least off-road, even the best bedliner won't hold up against being routinely knocked and dragged across rocks with the weight of your truck behind it. Benliner isn't all that easy to patch *when* it gets scratched. I prefer just your simple everyday rattle can spray paint.

If you don't intend to use your big beefy bumper much, if at all off-road, sure, I'd go for a powder coat or a smooth-finish bedliner type stuff (I really hate the rough look on bumpers). But for an off-road bumper that will get scratched and dinged up quite often, I would just go with a rattle can. Super easy to patch - just scuff with sandpaper and re-spray. It takes like 30 seconds.

I used hi-temp BBQ paint on my sliders, and I plan to do the same on my bumper.

 

Rustoleum and Herculiner both have rattle can versions of their bedliner. I used the Herculiner stuff on my skid plate.

 

I've used Raptor Liner on a few different projects, and they have always turned out nice. It is durable and tuff, looks good too. I have always sprayed it, but I have access to a paint booth due to my profession. not sure how well it would roll on. I do agree however, with some comments above, if its something that is going to get beat up, and paint worn off, a rattle can (something like SEM direct-to-metal) would be the easiest to touch up. If your bumpers come in bare metal/aluminum make sure you prep/sand/scuff/clean properly. Apply an acid etch (for bare metal), (proper flash times) then a sealer or primer, (re-sand/scuff if necessary), then top coat with paint and or clear. If you do your due diligence on the initial paint job, then touch ups will be super easy and your end results will last much longer and protect much better. Good luck!

 

I use Rustoleum bed liner. I have it on my front bumper as well as my rocker panels. You can't really see the rocker panels because they're coated in mud but the lining holds up really well. The bumper be lining has also held up very well. I just applied mine with a paint brush and used a roller to texture it.

 

Another vote for Rustoleum bed liner. It has a nice texture almost like grip tape used on skateboards.

 

What this guy said

 

Did my bumpers and rocker panel with Raptorliner, I will be painting the rest this summer.

 

I used rustoleum on both bumpers and my fender flares, and it has held up a lot better than I expected from a rattle can. I'd make sure to prime it first if you're spraying plastic though. I sprayed over bare metal on my trail gear bumper and right over the chrome on my stock rear and had no issues.

 

That looks nice. Any fading issues over time or do you put some type of dressing on it every now and then?

 

Everything fades if exposed to the sun long enough. I'm sure they've faded some since I did them 2 years ago. I don't put anything on them. Some has rubbed off by driving down an overgrown trail. Going to respray soon because I"m selling the truck.

This was back in July. Still look reasonably dark.

 

what aux lights are those on the front? Also I like what you did with the side turn signals on the ARB.. I did the same with mine.